| IP Integration Is Standard Fare by Electronic Design Magazine |
April 13, 2006 -- The system-on-a-chip (SoC) era has reached the point
where the assembly of such large, complex chips seems almost rote. From a high
level, it would appear to be a formula process: choose a processor, choose a
bus, bring t ... read more |
| Simple Networks Will Free Many Sensors from Wires by EDN Magazine |
April 13, 2006 -- The folks at the ZigBee Alliance, the industry organization driving ZigBee WPAN (wireless-personal-area-networking) technology, mean it when they say that they've learned valuable lessons from the miscues of the proponents of a ... read more |
| Adapting Signal Integrity to Nanometer IC Design by Carbon Design Systems, Inc. in eeDesign (EE Times EDA News) |
April 10, 2006 -- Although the term signal integrity, or SI, is very common in the EDA industry, it has come to mean different things to different people. In its truest sense, signal integrity helps ensure that a signal can faithfully propagate ... read more |
| FPGA Partial Reconfiguration Mitigates Variability by Xilinx, Inc. in eeDesign (EE Times EDA News) |
April 3, 2006 -- Design variability is rapidly becoming the "norm" for
electronics products. From packaging to logic functionality, electronic end
products are expected to be more customized and configurable based on customer
demand and fi ... read more |
| Master On-Chip Embedded Multiprocessor Coherence by MIPS Technologies, Inc. in Electronic Design Magazine |
March 30, 2006 -- Without a doubt, embedded systems-on-chip (SoCs) are becoming "software-rich," and they're incorporating more and more processors on one chip. The driving forces behind these changes are advances in fabrication technology (pr ... read more |
| Using Embedded-C for High Performance DSP Programming by ACE Associated Compiler Experts bv in EE Times Programmable Logic Designline |
March 30, 2006-- High level language programming has been in use for a long time for embedded system development. However, assembly programming still prevails, particularly forDSP based systems. DSP processors are often programmed in assembly la ... read more |
| FPGAs for Prototyping; ASICs for Production by AMI Semiconductor, Inc. (AMIS) in EE Times Programmable Logic Designline |
March 28, 2006 -- FPGAs are a valuable technology for designing and prototyping digital logic into medium-volume, medium-density applications. Their high unit cost, however, makes an FPGA cost-prohibitive to move into production. Several alterna ... read more |
| SystemVerilog Reference Verification Methodology: Introduction by Synopsys, Inc. in eeDesign (EE Times EDA News) |
March 27, 2006 -- Verification is the single biggest challenge in the design of system-on-chip (SoC) devices and reusable IP blocks. Traditional verification methods struggle to keep pace with the ever-increasing size and complexity of designs ... read more |
| Software Design Issues for Multicore/Multiprocessor Systems by Intel Corp. in EE Times Embedded |
March 27, 2006 -- With the increased use of multiprocessor and multi-core systems in embedded applications, software design considerations now include methods to distribute the software functionality across these computing resources.
This p ... read more |
| All About FPGAs by Zeidman Technologies, Inc. in EE Times Programmable Logic Designline |
March 21, 2006 -- This article examines field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) and their underlying architectures and technologies. We will also examine current and up-and-coming software tools that are designed to allow you to squeeze more func ... read more |
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