| A Power-Aware RTOS Dynamically Balances Performance and Efficiency by Mentor Graphics Corp. in Electronic Products Magazine |
April 1, 2009 -- As the demand for energy efficiency increases for both mobile and connected devices system developers are increasingly working with power-smart hardware solutions, which are complemented by more power-aware code. At the forefron ... read more |
| Near-Term Opportunities for Large-Area Flexible Electronics by Printed Circuit Design & Fab |
April 1, 2009 -- In 2007, the iNEMI Roadmap included (for the first time) a chapter titled Organic and Printed Electronics. For the 2009 edition, the scope of this chapter has been expanded to include the variety of technology platforms being in ... read more |
| Concurrent RF/ Microwave PCB Design by AWR Corp. in Printed Circuit Design & Fab |
April 1, 2009 -- Designing RF (including microwave) circuits concurrently with digital and analog, and transferring these circuits to a manufacturable, DRC-correct PCB has previously been impeded by the very productivity tools used for their re ... read more |
| Designing with MicroBGAs by Nexlogic Technologies, Inc. in Printed Circuit Design & Fab |
April 1, 2009 -- The micro-ball grid array is one of the most advanced surface mount devices and is quickly becoming the package of choice for the electronic circuit designer. A microBGA is a subclass of the generic ball grid array (BGA). Typica ... read more |
| High-Voltage ICs Improve Performance By Design by International Rectifier in Electronic Products Magazine |
April 1, 2009 -- Analog IC processes have followed a path of higher integration and increasing complexity, although not to the same degree as digital ICs. Nevertheless, the analog world, too, has reached some very small structure sizes. This all ... read more |
| A Look at the Dozen Different Serial Interfaces Integrated Into Microcontrollers by Microchip Technology, Inc. in Electronic Products Magazine |
April 1, 2009 -- A popular means of reducing size and cost for any embedded design is to use a communication bus with fewer I/O pins. Moving from a parallel bus to a serial bus provides significant size and cost reductions. Moving from one seria ... read more |
| Buy or Build an RTOS: Does It Matter for Medical Devices? by Mentor Graphics Corp. in EE Times Embedded |
March 28, 2009 -- Perhaps the most interesting thing about working with embedded systems is variability. Each device has a unique hardware and software architecture and its own individual functionality. As a result, it's a difficult challenge to ... read more |
| Multicore Programming: Easy or Difficult? by CriticalBlue in EDN Magazine |
March 25, 2009 -- The advent of homogeneous, shared memory multicore platforms is seen as both a threat and an opportunity for the software industry. Many commentators are concerned that efficiently and correctly porting existing code onto platf ... read more |
| Virtualization Makes Better Use of Open-source OSes and Apps by LynuxWorks, Inc. in Electronic Engineering Times (EE Times) |
March 23, 2009 -- The increased use of software virtualization in embedded systems is enabling additional use of open-source operating systems (OSes) and applications. The notion of providing a virtualized interface to hardware and using softwar ... read more |
| Whatever Happened to My Dynamic Range? by Cirrus Logic, Inc. in EDN Magazine |
March 19, 2009 -- Recently, a customer who had implemented a design using a high-performance, 120-dB-dynamic-range ADC/DAC pair complained that he was getting only 113-dB performance. At first glance, this issue appears serious, but a relatively ... read more |
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