| Accelerating MATLAB Using MEX-files by Catalytic, Inc. in EE Times Signal Processing DesignLine |
July 9, 2007 -- MATLAB is great tool for algorithm development. It provides a simple programming environment with an extensive library of functions to help develop, analyze and visualize complex algorithms. However, MATLAB is sometimes slow, whi ... read more |
| Low Power Design Specification from RTL through GDSII by Mentor Graphics Corp. in EE Times EDA Designline |
July 9, 2007 -- As power has become more expensive in electronic systems, the need to specify low power design intent has increased in importance. Whereas dynamic power (aka, switching) is fairly well handled using existing design and verificati ... read more |
| Networking Moves to Home Automation by EDN Magazine |
July 5, 2007 -- The dream of an intelligent home that automatically controls the living environment and responds to individual preferences has been around since the advent of the microcontroller first suggested the possibility. High cost, reliab ... read more |
| Assertions Improve Productivity for All Development Phases by EE Times EDA Designline |
July 3, 2007 -- Assertions are increasingly important verification tools because they improve design quality and increase design verification (DV) productivity, resulting in faster time to market. Many qualities of assertions make them helpful d ... read more |
| An Automated and Objective Measure of Functional Verification Quality by Certess, Inc. in EE Times EDA Designline |
June 26, 2007 -- If there were a bug in your design, could the verification environment find it? Functional qualification is the first technology to provide an objective answer to this fundamental question. It is an essential addition to the inc ... read more |
| Graphical Programming for DSPs by National Instruments Corp. in EE Times Signal Processing DesignLine |
June 25 2007 -- DSP development is challenging. DSP systems are increasingly complicated, development cycles are shrinking, and many developers lack DSP programming experience. All of this of this creates a need for tools that provide a high lev ... read more |
| Upgrade to High-Speed USB Handsets Without a Complete Redesign by Cypress Semiconductor Corp. in Electronic Design Magazine |
June 21, 2007 -- Cellular-service providers continually strive to make more features available to their subscribers, features that will increase the average revenue per user (ARPU) in a market reaching saturation.
Over the last few years, ... read more |
| Design for Debugging: The Unspoken Imperative in Chip Design by EDN Magazine |
June 21, 2007 -- Testing and debugging present different problems. In testing, the goal is to determine as quickly as possible whether the chip is working correctly, with high, but not absolute, certainty. Chip-design teams now universally recog ... read more |
| Exploring Memory Architectures: Pillars of Processing Performance by EDN Magazine |
June 21, 2007 -- A key performance characteristic of processor architectures is how much application-specific work they can perform per unit of time. The EEMBC (Embedded Microprocessor Benchmark Consortium) benchmark, unlike Dhrystone MIPS (millions-of ... read more |
| How Customer-Specific Standard Products Ease Mobile Device Design by QuickLogic Corp. in EE Times Programmable Logic Designline |
June 20, 2007 -- Mobile device designers face a critical question: what functionality should be incorporated in their next-generation designs? Answering this question while simultaneously addressing the market needs of rapid development, lowest ... read more |
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