| Discovering the Last Unrealized Power Reduction by Synopsys, Inc. in EDN Magazine |
September 9, 2010 -- Discovering the last unrealized power reduction imagePower has become one of the most important design criteria for almost all design projects, and the industry, in response, has invested a lot of effort to address this chal ... read more |
| Conquering the Memory Bottleneck by Sonics, Inc. in EE Times Memory Designline |
September 13, 2010 -- Advanced SOCs now require a wide array of multiple processors and special-purpose processors that demand simultaneous memory access. Designers want to alleviate memory congestion and ensure memory efficiency and bandwidth a ... read more |
| Performance Evaluation of Inter-Processor Communication Mechanisms On the Multi-Core Processors Using a Reconfigurable Device by Design & Reuse |
September 1, 2010 -- Recently, multi-core processors have been featured in embedded field. Especially, with regard to reconfigurable devices, several system constructions can be implemented easily. The real-time OS(RTOS) for a multi-core process ... read more |
| Booting an RTOS on Symmetric Multiprocessors by Mentor Graphics Corp. in Embedded.com |
September 3, 2010 -- Although the use of multiple processors in desktop computation has become commonplace, such a configuration is still finding its place in deeply embedded devices in such markets as consumer electronics, aviation, and automot ... read more |
| Using Low-Cost OTP MCUs to Simplify Embedded Apps by Silicon Laboratories, Inc. in Electronic Products Magazine |
September 9, 2010 -- As engineers look to reduce the cost of their embedded systems without compromising availability of peripherals or system performance, a potential aid is using one-time programmable (OTP) MCUs. These often provide the same p ... read more |
| Virtualization Options for Embedded Multicore Systems by Freescale Semiconductor, Inc. in Signal Processing DesignLine |
August 31, 2010 -- Virtualization already has impacted the server and IT industries in a significant way. IT organizations are using it to reduce power consumption and building space, provide high availability for critical applications and strea ... read more |
| Debugging the Linux Kernel With JTAG by Embedded.com |
August 29, 2010 -- The issue of using debuggers to troubleshoot the Linux kernel is not only technical; it's political. Linux is being mostly developed on the x86 platform, which does not have JTAG debugging capabilities, and software-only kerne ... read more |
| Optimizing the Manufacturing Test Program, Data Collection, and Diagnosis for Yield Analysis by Mentor Graphics Corp. in EE Times EDA Designline |
August 29, 2010 -- Many sources of yield loss, including out-of-spec equipment, incorrect handling of material, photomask defects, design-process sensitivities, library marginalities, and test issues, can occur during semiconductor manufacturing ... read more |
| Designing for End-of-Life (EOL) With an ASIC by ON Semiconductor in EDN Magazine |
August 25, 2010 -- The obsolescence of older processes and larger geometries is largely forced by the consumer and communications industry's insatiable need for smaller, higher-performance, more-efficient, and more-integrated devices. However, i ... read more |
| Evaluating Platform Software Architectures for Nextgen Embedded Multicore Designs by Green Hills Software, Inc. in Embedded.com |
August 31, 2010 -- Imagine that you are the chief software architect of a new embedded design, a decade from now. You are contemplating the microprocessor selected by the hardware guys and bean counters and wondering how in the world you're goin ... read more |
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