| Get the Lowdown On IP for Your Startup by ip help LLC in Electronic Design Magazine |
April 14, 2005 -- Do you have an innovative concept for an invention
that you would like to build your business around? If that's the case, or if
you've already started this venture, you must take several key steps when
handling your int ... read more |
| A Practical Approach to Design Reuse by Mentor Graphics Corp. in Electronic Engineering Times (EE Times) |
April 11, 2005 -- There has been much discussion and a great deal of ink devoted to the topic of reuse. This topic is usually covered from the perspective of designing new code for reuse in future designs. Most pundits agree that this is a good ... read more |
| What Designers Need to Know About TCAD by Synopsys, Inc. in eeDesign (EE Times EDA News) |
April 4, 2005 -- Issues with manufacturability and yield are forcing the EDA industry and IC manufacturing to move closer together. In particular, process and device information that affect functionality and yield need to be incorporated into ... read more |
| Getting to a Higher Level by Electronic Design Magazine |
March 31, 2005 -- When the topic of design languages comes up, most industry veterans think back to the "language wars" of the late 1980s and early 1990s. Back then, VHDL and Verilog vied for dominance, with numerous other proprietary hardware ... read more |
| Assembly Required: Using Reference Design Resources by EDN Magazine |
March 31, 2005 -- Processor vendors continue to improve and increase
the amount of design support they offer. In addition to offering increasingly
more sophisticated software-development tools, reference designs represent a
growing trend ... read more |
| All Design is Analog -- Some More So than Others by EDN Magazine |
March 31, 2005 --Today's designs are increasingly complex, requiring more functions and decreased cost and size. Power consumption, signal interactions, and parasitics phenomena all result in integration bottlenecks. With current technology, a ... read more |
| XML Provides Language for Hardware Specification by LSI Corp. in Electronic Engineering Times (EE Times) |
March 28, 2005 -- We propose the use of XML for specifying and designing hardware. Many different methods for the specification of hardware designs are in use. The majority of these are based on either closed markup languages (word processors) ... read more |
| Low-Power Flow Enables Multi-Supply Voltage ICs by ARM in Electronic Engineering Times (EE Times) |
March 21, 2005 --Designers face a continuing struggle in balancing power and performance in leading-edge system-on-chip (SoC) designs. A higher supply voltage can mean faster devices, but at the cost of greater power consumption — a problem co ... read more |
| Minimize ESD-Induced Downtime by EDN Magazine |
March 17, 2005 -- ESD (electrostatic discharge) is a major cause of electronic-device failure that can affect the functioning of an electronic device at any stage—from manufacturing, to testing, assembly, production, field operation, and handl ... read more |
| Modeling Gigabit Backplanes from Measurements by TDA Systems, Inc. in EDN Magazine |
March 17, 2005 -- Designs that incorporate backplanes and interconnects operating at greater than 1 Gbps require accurate Spice and IBIS (I/O-buffer-information) models. At such speeds, these interconnects appear to be complex, often distribut ... read more |
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