| Low Power: A Chip and System-Design Primer by Silicon Laboratories, Inc. in EDN Magazine |
June 10, 2010 -- Reducing power consumption has a major impact on every aspect of our lives. At a macro level, the benefits have been well-documented: lower electric bills for consumers, reduced load on utilities, and fewer batteries in landfill ... read more |
| Power Optimization In Image Superscalar IP by Design & Reuse |
June 10, 2010 -- As process geometries have scaled, design teams have used more and more of the additional silicon real estate available on chips to integrate embedded memories that serve as scratch-pads, FIFOs and caches to store data for the c ... read more |
| Softsilicon: The Next Era of Communications Silicon by EE Times Embedded |
June 3, 2010 -- The well known trend within communications is that over time bandwidth demand increases while selling price-per-bit decreases. If you think about your internet connection at home, I bet that the speed has increased several factor ... read more |
| A Monitor-Based Approach to Verification by eInfochips, Ltd. in TechOnLine, Inc. |
June 2, 2010 -- Thinking through the process of selecting a verification methodology needs to take into consideration the various levels at which we need to do the verification and how verification environment (VE) components from bottom to top ... read more |
| Transitioning from C/C++ to SystemC in High-Level Design by Forte Design Systems, Inc. in EE Times Embedded |
June 1, 2010 -- In high-level design, high-level code is put through a series of steps on its way to becoming register transfer level (RTL) code. The first step, algorithm design, is usually done in C or C++, where the high-level code that descr ... read more |
| Five Golden Rules for Prototyping Robotic Systems by National Instruments Corp. in Electronic Products Magazine |
June 1, 2010 -- A well-thought-out plan for prototyping can significantly pay off in the long run and can be even more important in robotics applications than in other fields, because typically robots move and interact with people, which can lea ... read more |
| The Transformation of Silicon to System Design by Cadence Design Systems, Inc. in Electronic Products Magazine |
June 1, 2010 -- Truly inspired electronics products are in demand and delivering profit, even in a down economy. Consumers are delighted by products like Apple’s iPhone and iPad, which mark a new era for product innovation and changed how system ... read more |
| What Is Power Debugging? by IAR Systems AB in EE Times Embedded |
May 27, 2010 -- Power debugging is beginning to appear as a concept in the embedded industry, but what do we mean? In this article we will take a look at what is driving this need in embedded systems, and the way to optimize software to minimize ... read more |
| Code Coverage Convergence In Configurable IP by Synopsys, Inc. in Design & Reuse |
May 27, 2010 -- Code coverage is an essential metric for completion of the verification of a SOC or an IP. The code coverage report helps you identify verification loopholes by analyzing the uncovered coverage metrics in the report. The target c ... read more |
| Power Management for Optimal Power Design by eSilicon Corp. in EDN Magazine |
May 27, 2010 -- Optimization of power consumption is one of the biggest challenges IC designers face today. Although power optimization has always been critical for battery-operated designs, the continued growth of system performance with each n ... read more |
|
