| The New Wave in High-Speed Modeling by Printed Circuit Design & Fab |
October 1, 2008 -- Unlocking the electrical performance of an interconnect may be as simple as mastering the S-parameter.
The fastest way to an answer is not always the direct path. When it comes to characterizing the electrical performanc ... read more |
| Taking the Broad View by SpringSoft, Inc. in Components in Electronics (CIE) |
October 1, 2008 -- Verification tools and methodologies have both evolved and undergone revolutionary changes, and both are equally as important to stay abreast of Moore’s law. Complex SOC designs can be implemented by acquiring third-party inte ... read more |
| Mixed-Signal Design Considerations by Nexlogic Technologies, Inc. in Printed Circuit Design & Fab |
October 1, 2008 -- The layout of an efficient mixed-signal design can be both time consuming and challenging. However, diligently working on this type of layout can result in a system with less crosstalk, more noise immunity and better EMI perfo ... read more |
| CAM/CAD Design Rules and Guidelines by Nexlogic Technologies, Inc. in CircuiTree |
October 1, 2008 -- The best design is worthless if you can’t manufacture it. To be confident regarding manufacturability, it’s important to know manufacturing’s capabilities and limitations. There are organizations that work day and night to cre ... read more |
| How to Transform Silicon with Dynamic Reconfiguration by Cypress Semiconductor Corp. in EE Times Programmable Logic Designline |
October 1, 2008 -- In embedded applications, a reconfigurable architecture is one that allows alteration of its components and interconnections between them. Such alteration might occur over a portion of the system or an entire platform, and all ... read more |
| In Multicore SOC Architectures Buses Are a Last Resort by Tensilica, Inc. in Electronic Engineering Times (EE Times) |
September 29, 2008 -- The one-processor system model that has dominated electronic system design since 1971 is now thoroughly obsolete. Today's SOC designers readily accept the idea of using multiple processors in their complex systems to achiev ... read more |
| Lights, Camera, Process! by Electronic Design Magazine |
September 25, 2008 -- After a decade of development and standardization efforts, digital video is now poised to take over broadcast television. With this transition, some digital video processor ICs are moving toward commodity status while other ... read more |
| Silicon Germanium: Fast, Quiet, and Powerful by EDN Magazine |
September 18, 2008 -- CMOS (complementary-metal-oxide-semiconductor) processes have consistently surprised the semiconductor industry. CMOS prices decreased and CMOS speeds increased, a scenario that primarily benefits digital-IC designers. A di ... read more |
| DisplayPort versus HDMI: Do We Really Need Two Digital Display Interface Standards? by EDN Magazine |
September 18, 2008 -- DisplayPort proponents bill this digital-video-I/O standard as a no-royalties, scalable, extensible, open-standard interface that reduces connector footprint and cable clutter, lowers power consumption and cost, eliminates ... read more |
| How to Defend Against The Cloning of Your FPGA Designs by EE Times Programmable Logic Designline |
September 17, 2008 -- This article describes a new way of tagging designs to help to counter the rapidly growing trade in stolen IP and cloned designs. The topic is a difficult one for the industry to discuss; recently, however, more and more vo ... read more |
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