| How to Pick a RapidIO Switch by Tundra Semiconductor Corp. in EE Times Signal Processing DesignLine |
February 20, 2009 -- The RapidIO interconnect offers many advantages for embedded systems. It combines high bandwidth with low cost and low power, and it is suitable for both control plane and data plane applications. Successful RapidIO systems ... read more |
| Understanding Continuous-Time, Discrete-Time Sigma-Delta ADCs and Nyqist ADCs by Analog Devices, Inc. (ADI) in Electronic Design Magazine |
February 20, 2009 -- Sigma-delta converters are in wide use among applications that demand high precision and accuracy. A variant of the sigma-delta architecture, called the continuous-time sigma delta (CT-SD), has found homes in embedded applic ... read more |
| ESD Protection Design for Discrete Semiconductors by Fairchild Semiconductor Corp. in Electronic Products Magazine |
February 19, 2009 -- Electrostatic discharge (ESD) is caused by the discharge of an excess or deficiency of electrons on one surface with respect to another surface or to ground. When an ESD-sensitive device, such as a MOSFET or other discrete c ... read more |
| Verifying FPGA Designs: Simulate, Emulate, or Hope for the Best? by EDN Magazine |
February 19, 2009 -- Once upon a time, you verified a logic design for an FPGA by compiling it, loading it, and pushing the reset button on your evaluation board. But, as FPGAs have become larger, this "blow-and-go" verification style, as Xilinx ... read more |
| PCIe Clock Distribution In Embedded Systems by Integrated Device Technology, Inc. (IDT) in EDN Magazine |
February 19, 2009 -- The PCIe (peripheral-component-interconnect express) protocol is highly desirable for communication across backplanes in embedded and other system types. However, for an embedded-system environment in which backplane connect ... read more |
| A Tale of Two Digital-Video Converters by EDN Magazine |
February 19, 2009 -- Assessing the tradeoffs between implementing video-processing tasks in hardware on function-optimized silicon, in software running on a general-purpose microprocessor, or (as an intermediary approach between these two extrem ... read more |
| Suppressing Non-Stationary Noise In Mobile Handsets by EDN Magazine |
February 19, 2009 -- Until recently, noise-suppression technology focused on reducing slow-changing stationary noise sources. However, non-stationary noise sources are fast-changing, and the current technology does not suppress them. As a result ... read more |
| Behavioral Design Drives Low-Power Silicon by Forte Design Systems, Inc. in EE Times EDA Designline |
February 16, 2009 -- Hardware designers adopt high level synthesis (HLS) for productivity benefits, and need the quality-of-results (QoR) to match or exceed what they can achieve with hand-constructed register transfer level (RTL) code. Historic ... read more |
| Refactoring to Prepare RTL for Reuse by Intel Corp. in Design & Reuse |
February 16, 2009 -- Legacy RTL, such as found in large established companies, poses a challenge for reuse. Often this legacy RTL is not written with reuse in mind and it must be rewritten, sometimes from scratch, to enable reuse. This rewriting ... read more |
| FPGA Outsourcing: Ten Questions You Should Ask by in EE Times Signal Processing DesignLine |
February 12, 2009 -- FPGAs are an ideal solution for many applications. They offer an appealing mix of high performance, low cost, and low power. On the other hand, many companies find it hard to do FPGA design. The technology is constantly adva ... read more |
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