| Outsourcing an IC Design: Some Advice from the Trenches by EDN Magazine |
September 3, 2009 -- There are many reasons to consider outsourcing all or part of a chip design. Perhaps you are on a board-level-design team, and the correct approach to your new project is a chip that doesn’t today exist. Perhaps your team ha ... read more |
| Standardizing on a Common Embedded Eclipse IDE by EE Times Embedded |
September 2, 2009 -- Major embedded systems tools providers are now supporting the IDE as a development environment. With so many commercial rivals involved it is not surprising that there are disagreements over the approach.
Wi ... read more |
| Getting to the Roots of the Eclipse Integrated Development Environnment by Wind River in EE Times Embedded |
September 1, 2009 -- The Eclipse Foundation website defines Eclipse as an open source community whose projects are focused on providing a vendor-neutral open development platform and application frameworks for building software.
Eclipse is ... read more |
| Improving Software Driver Development and Hardware Verification Productivity using Virtual Platforms by Synopsys, Inc. in Design & Reuse |
August 27, 2009 -- Over the course of the last decade, the cost of software has become the undisputed dominant factor in electronics design. Software development has fundamentally changed the shape of the electronics industry, from large integra ... read more |
| Avoid the Pitfalls of Inaccurate EDID by Electronic Design Magazine |
August 27, 2009 -- Whatever its relative merits and demerits may be, HDMI is here to stay as the audio/ video (A/V) interface of the foreseeable future. As the number of consumer and professional devices using HDMI to deliver audio and HD video ... read more |
| Timing Annotation of Untimed Functional Models for Architecture Use-Case by HCL Technologies, Ltd. in Design & Reuse |
August 27, 2009 -- Untimed functional models (also known as programmers view, or PV models) are used to create virtual prototypes that are deployed by software developers for developing the system software. These functional models are mainly cre ... read more |
| Blocking Out the Noise Means Selecting the Right Filter by Tektronix, Inc. in Electronic Design Magazine |
August 27, 2009 -- Noise is a common and pervasive problem in electronics design and debug. At one time or another, almost every designer and debugger of electrical circuits will spend some time dealing with noise, either finding its source to f ... read more |
| Reducing Costs with Embedded Software Optimization by EE Times Embedded |
August 25, 2009 -- In today's economic climate, OEMs developing products based on embedded systems face a stiff set of challenges. Whatever the financial situation, they need to maintain or increase sales of their goods in the face of tough comp ... read more |
| Debugging Hardware Designs with an FPGA-Based Emulation Tool by Emulation and Verification Engineering (EVE) in EE Times Embedded |
August 24, 2009 -- Creating a hardware emulation system is no easy task. At a minimum, each generation of emulation system has to accommodate a growing number of logic gates, memory and DSP blocks to allow ASIC and ASSP SOC designers to debug th ... read more |
| Addressing Interleaved Multichannel Memory Challenges by Sonics, Inc. in EDN Magazine |
August 20, 2009 -- Achieving the total external-memory-bandwidth requirements of consumer SOCs at acceptable costs gets more difficult with each generation of electronic systems and the DRAM technologies that serve them. SOC designers must optim ... read more |
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