| Designing for Performance with Software Optimization by Intel Corp. in EE Times Embedded |
December 30, 2009 -- Optimization of applications should not be a final step in project development, but rather an ongoing design philosophy that begins from the planning stages all the way through completion. By thinking about the optimal algor ... read more |
| How to Use a Debugger As a Bug Preventive Tool by Green Hills Software, Inc. in EE Times Embedded |
December 28, 2009 -- Generally speaking, a debugger is thought of as a tool to use after a problem is encountered, when its cause is not obvious. Although a good debugger is the best tool for diagnosing problems and defects in software products, ... read more |
| Model-Based Design and Early Verification Aid Designers by EDN Magazine |
December 15, 2009 -- Engineers can save themselves a lot of grief if they carefully evaluate their designs in software before committing to silicon or sheet metal. Model-based-design and early-verification tools are helping designers, whether th ... read more |
| Analog Floating-Gate Technology Comes Into Its Own by EDN Magazine |
December 15, 2009 -- Just as its name implies, a floating-gate transistor’s driving terminal is electrically isolated from the rest of the device—that is, floating—so there is no direct internal dc path from the input terminal to the other termi ... read more |
| Removing Bottlenecks from Your SOC Design-for-Test Flows by DeFacTo Technologies in EE Times EDA Designline |
December 14, 2009 -- New manufacturing test challenges are raised with SOC technology advances where both test quality and test costs are affected with a direct impact on current design-for-test (DFT) methodologies and flows.
Indeed, by an ... read more |
| Designing Serial ATA IP Into Your Embedded Storage Device Design by Synopsys, Inc. in EE Times Embedded |
December 14, 2009 -- Serial ATA (SATA) is a high-speed serial bus interface used to transfer data from motherboards to peripheral storage devices, such as optical disk drives, HDDs and solid state disk drives. The SATA interface is being integra ... read more |
| A Mixed-Signal Approach to Debugging DDR DRAM Interfaces by Agilent Technologies, Inc. in EE Times Embedded |
December 14, 2009 -- DDR memory technology is the most common choice of memory devices found almost everywhere from computers, transportations, home entertainment systems to medical devices and consumer products. With the wide spread of the DDR ... read more |
| Mobile Video Quality: The New Media-Gateway Revolution by Octasic, Inc. in EDN Magazine |
December 11, 2009 -- Telecommunications products and services—over many years—were based on the tenet "if you build it, they will come." Product designers and service providers led customers to new applications. More recently, however, customer- ... read more |
| DSPs Thrive In Consumer Applications by Electronic Design |
December 10, 2009 -- Digital signal processors (DSPs) are a foundation element of virtually every type of consumer electronics, especially in digital media and communications. The form that these DSPs take is shifting as the standalone processor ... read more |
| 2009's Mixed-Signal ICs Offer Low Power and High Performance by Electronic Design Magazine |
December 10, 2009 So what have mixed-signal chipmakers been doing as the industry climbs out of the recession? Just look at the product announcements over the past year, and you’ll discover where companies have been investing their non-recurring ... read more |
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