| Using SystemVerilog for Functional Verification by Mentor Graphics Corp. in eeDesign (EE Times EDA News) |
December 5, 2005 -- The need to improve functional verification productivity and quality continues to grow. The 2004/2002 IC/ASIC Functional Verification Study, by Collett International Research, shows that logic or functional errors are the l ... read more |
| Thread Versus Task Management in a Dual Mode DSP/RISC RTOS Environment by Analog Devices, Inc. (ADI) in EE Times Embedded |
December 5, 2005 -- Today’s embedded applications are rapidly evolving. Traditional DSP applications are adding networking and other control functionality. At the same time, the typical MCU control application will often include streaming medi ... read more |
| 'Threads' Cut CPU Utilization for Infotainment Convergent Processors by Analog Devices, Inc. (ADI) in EE Times Embedded |
December 5, 2005 -- Today’s embedded applications are rapidly evolving. Traditional DSP applications are adding networking and other control functionality. At the same time, the typical MCU control application will often include streaming medi ... read more |
| What Challenges to Expect from Low-Power ICs by ARM in EE Times Power Management Designline |
December 5, 2005 -- Power is at a premium across mainstream applications ranging from battery-powered personal appliances to multiprocessor server farms. For designers, power management means controlling leakage power lost during standby mode ... read more |
| How to Reduce Costs by Integrating PCI Interface Functions into CPLDs by Altera Corp. in EE Times Programmable Logic Designline |
November 30, 2005 -- Today, the PCI is a standardized, highly efficient expansion bus supported by several computer platforms, including PC-compatible computers, PowerPC-based platforms, and so forth. PCI originally operated at 33 MHz using a ... read more |
| Bugopedia by EE Times Embedded |
November 30, 2005 -- Bugs provide the software engineer’s war stories. While the rest of the population would sooner chew on broken glass than listen to an anecdote that ends with “ . . . and then I realized it should have been a 16-bit counte ... read more |
| How to Reduce Code Size (and Memory Cost) without Sacrificing Performance by Texas Instruments, Inc. (TI) in EE Times Embedded |
November 29, 2005 -- Today's intelligent compilers offer many options for squeezing more performance out of application code. Many of these optimizations, however, tend to increase overall code size. As a result, once developers of optimized a ... read more |
| Introduction to XML for Engineering Applications by Mathsoft Engineering & Education, Inc. in eeDesign (EE Times EDA News) |
November 28, 2005 -- As indispensable as computers are in electronics design, they have too often failed in this context to support long-term business objectives. To date, there has been scarcely little effort to comprehensively capture and re ... read more |
| The Myth of the "Ideal Bus" by National Instruments Corp. in EE Times Industrial Control Designline |
November 28, 2005 -- Does as an ideal bus technology exist? Many companies promote a single technology as the ideal bus that meets all application needs, but in actuality, each bus technology has its own strengths and weaknesses and thus is ap ... read more |
| Using High Precision Complex-Valued Arithmetic in Audio DSP Applications by EE Times Embedded |
November 28, 2005 -- Many new embedded consumer applications such as computer audio and video reproduction, home theatre, electronic musical instruments, and car infotainment require improved high quality digital audio. New formats, more deman ... read more |
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