| Trends in Debug Features for Microcontrollers by NXP Semiconductors in Electronic Products Magazine |
September 1, 2008 -- Microcontrollers are general-purpose devices that need software to make them application specific. In order to make the software work it needs to be debugged. At one time, debugging consisted of inserting software break poin ... read more |
| Dev Kits Help Alleviate Those FPGA Design Woes by Electronic Design Magazine |
August 28, 2008 -- Design at the logic level for board-level products is rare. If it can’t be done with a microcontroller or two, then what’s a designer to do? FPGAs have been the answer for years, but FPGA tools required a steep learning curve. ... read more |
| Eye-Diagram Analysis Speeds DDR SDRAM Validation by Agilent Technologies, Inc. in Electronic Design Magazine |
August 28, 2008 -- Double-data-rate synchronous dynamic random access memory (DDR SDRAM) physical-layer testing is a crucial step in making sure devices comply with the JEDEC specification. The ultimate goal is to guarantee interoperability when ... read more |
| Electronic System Level Design: Is There Fire Beneath the Smoke? by EDN Magazine |
August 21, 2008 -- It was a shimmering promise on the horizon: As SOCs (systems on chips) became more complex, we would simply move from RTL (register-transfer level) to the next-higher level of abstraction—what some experts called ESL (electron ... read more |
| On-Chip Test Capabilities Solve the Analog-Test Problem for High-speed Serial Interfaces by Synopsys, Inc. in EDN Magazine |
August 21, 2008 -- A small amount of on-chip analog-test hardware offers big payoffs when you are dealing with high-speed serial interfaces. As part of the serial-interface IP (intellectual property) or of an IP wrapper, the test hardware can pr ... read more |
| Microcontroller Design in FPGAs by Lattice Semiconductor Corp. in EE Times Programmable Logic Designline |
August 20, 2008 -- Inside any electronic device, from an old television remote to a global positioning system, there will be at least one microcontroller unit (MCU) and, in many cases, several. MCUs are used in specialized end products ("applian ... read more |
| Build Debug and Trace Systems for Multicore SOCs by ARM in Electronic Design Magazine |
August 14, 2008 -- Embedded designers put microprocessors in everyday products like cars, phones, cameras, TVs, music players, and printers, as well as the communications infrastructure, which the general public doesn’t get to see. They know how ... read more |
| Learning Not to Fear PCI Express Compliance by ClearSpeed Technology, Inc. in EE Times EDA Designline |
August 12, 2008 -- On the way to taping out its first PCI Express based SOC, ClearSpeed came face-to-face with the many difficulties of ensuring PCI Express protocol compliance within time and budget constraints. PCI Express is a complex protoco ... read more |
| Free Software Encircles Embedded Design by EDN Magazine |
August 7, 2008 -- With potentially huge savings on operating software, development tools, recurring royalties, and schedules, designers and managers must at least consider open-source software on each new embedded-system project. A wide variety ... read more |
| Minimizing ADC Power Consumption by National Semiconductor Corp. in EDN Magazine |
August 6, 2008 -- Minimizing power consumption has long been a major goal of many designs. The reasons range from the obvious, battery powered circuits and green systems, to the perhaps not so obvious, minimization and cost reduction in the powe ... read more |
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