| A Measure of Opportunity Awaits in Electric Meters by Electronic Design Magazine |
March 1, 2007 -- Besieged by conservation issues, utility metering is undergoing somewhat of a renaissance—particularly electricity metering. That's because electrical distribution systems everywhere are fragile. Metering used to be the nearly e ... read more |
| Integrating Power Awareness into IC Design by NEC Electronics America, Inc. in EE Times EDA Designline |
March 1, 2007 -- If one looks at today's design flow, there is currently no way to incorporate advanced low-power design intentions without having to create several instances of ad-hoc files describing special cells (e.g. isolation cells) and po ... read more |
| Techniques for Debugging an Asymmetric Multicore Application: Part 1 by Intel Corp. in EE Times Embedded |
March 1, 2007 -- In a project life cycle, there always comes a time when one must debug a software issue found during testing. Development teams are always looking to pro-actively find potential defects as early as possible in the development cy ... read more |
| A New Architecture for Development Platforms Targeted to Portable Radio Applications by Lyrtech Signal Processing in DSP-FPGA.com |
February 28, 2007 -- Performance, power consumption and cost are three critical factors developers face when designing software defined radios (SDR) for portable applications. In an attempt to satisfy these requirements, SDR developers consisten ... read more |
| How to Improve Design-Level Security with Low-Cost Non-Volatile FPGAs by Xilinx, Inc. in EE Times Programmable Logic Designline |
February 28, 2007 -- The recent introduction of 90-nm non-volatile Spartan-3AN FPGAs that provide SRAM FPGA system-level functionality (multipliers for DSP; block, distributed, and flash memories for storage and embedded code; digital clock mana ... read more |
| New EDA Tools Improve Low Power Design by Atrenta, Inc. in EE Times EDA Designline |
February 19, 2007 -- Ten years ago, power was a minor concern for many IC designers. Today, four in five chips have a power budget below 2W. The emphasis on low power is due in large part to the explosion of compact mobile systems, but also to t ... read more |
| Mathematical Package Helps in Circuit Design by Fairchild Semiconductor Corp. in EE Times EDA Designline |
February 15, 2007 -- The use of a mathematical software package, like Maple from Maplesoft, offers a very exciting and effective tool to study and understand physical phenomenon such as MOSFET switching in power circuits. This case study examine ... read more |
| DSP Compensation for Small Loudspeakers by EE Times Signal Processing DesignLine |
February 15, 2007 -- Today it is possible to deliver, store, and amplify a high quality digital audio bitstream in a wide range of consumer electronics products. However, these technical advances have often not improved the perceived audio quali ... read more |
| Putting the Squeeze on 16-bit Processors by EDN Magazine |
February 15, 2007 -- The start of the much-anticipated death of 16-bit
processors is upon us. Or is it? Are 16-bit processors destined to become a
footnote in the history books?
The much-heralded death of the 8-bit processor ... read more |
| A Deep Dive into HD for Video-System Design by Texas Instruments, Inc. (TI) in EDN Magazine |
February 15, 2007 -- Technological advancements of recent years have enabled new video capabilities in end equipment ranging from cell phones and MP3 players to video walls and billboards. Because of the strong demand and level of innovation tha ... read more |
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