| High-Speed Serial Interconnect Design |
| Source: Ansoft Corp. |
Engineers designing servers, storage devices, multimedia PCs, entertainment systems, and telecom systems have driven an industry trend to replace legacy shared parallel buses with high-speed point-to-point serial buses. Standard interfaces like XAUI, X ... read more |
| Home Networking Middleware |
| Source: Xilinx, Inc. |
This white paper presents an overview of how home networking middleware supports the seamless convergence of broadcast and home network applications. The fusion between both of these technologies facilitates the deployment of a range of new entertainme ... read more |
| Home Networking Using "New Wires" — IEEE 1394, USB, and Fast Ethernet Technologies |
| Source: Xilinx, Inc. |
The computer industry has been promising users the ability to easily connect electronics devices such as digital TVs, cameras, cable set-top boxes, and stereo equipment to each other and to PCs for many years. USB and IEEE 1394 interconnection technolo ... read more |
| Home Networking Using "No New Wires" Phoneline and Powerline Interconnection Technologies |
| Source: Xilinx, Inc. |
Until recently, home networks depended on special cables (typically requiring professional installation) to link PCs, audio/video (A/V) equipment, and peripheral devices together, which could be expensive and problematic if the hardware components were ... read more |
| How a Complete IP Solution Speeds Time-to-Market and Reduces Risk for 10-Gigabit Ethernet Applications |
| Source: Synopsys, Inc. |
This paper discusses the merits of IP for the growing 10G Ethernet market and introduces Synopsys' complete DesignWare® 10G Ethernet IP solution in the context of the technology and the target applications. It mentions the market growth trends and high ... read more |
| How It Works: UWB, WPAN and WiMedia Radio Space |
| Source: WiMedia Alliance, Inc. |
Ultra-wideband technology is the foundation on which the WiMedia Alliance has built an ecosystem which promotes multimedia connectivity within the personal networking space. Selected by the Wireless USB Promoters Group and the Bluetooth SIG, the WiMedi ... read more |
| How Power Consumption and Cost Impact Moore's Law and More-than-Moore Roadmaps |
| Source: Global Semiconductor Alliance (GSA) |
The semiconductor industry has been doggedly shrinking process technologies for over 30 years. The economic enticement for this behavior is waning, however, as we reach 20nm and the end of both conventional lithography and the conventional planar, bulk ... read more |
| How System-Level Trade-Offs Drive Data Converter Decisions |
| Source: Synopsys, Inc. |
For both analog-to–digital converters (ADC) and digital-to-analog converters (DAC), system-level specifications have a strong influence on several aspects of the converter’s design, including conversion rate, resolution, power dissipation and silicon a ... read more |
| How to Avoid the Traps and Pitfalls of SOC Design |
| Source: Tensilica, Inc. |
The history of IC design is full of massive tectonic shifts. They've been occurring every 12 years or so since semiconductors arrived on the scene half a century ago. SOCs are ICs, so they're not immune to these shifts. It's been a little over 12 years ... read more |
| How to Increase ASICs and SOC Computational Performance with Long-Word Processors |
| Source: Tensilica, Inc. |
VLIW processors execute multiple independent instructions each clock cycle and provide a tremendous performance boost per clock cycle without incurring the exponential power-consumption increase caused by clock-rate increases. However, VLIW architectur ... read more |
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