| Making Source Code Analysis Part of the Software Development Process by EE Times Embedded |
April 26, 2010 -- Modern source code analysis tools (sometimes called static analysis or SCA tools) analyze software programs at the earliest stage of development. SCA tools analyze a program to calculate metrics and find potential flaws and def ... read more |
| Electronics for MEMS: Design Issues and Trade-Offs by Si-Ware Systems in Electronic Products Magazine |
April 23, 2010 -- MEMS developers are increasingly coming to the realization that electronics play a fundamental role in any and are a key element in realizing many benefits of MEMS, such as cost reduction and miniaturization. A good electronic ... read more |
| Choosing the Best Standard Cell Library without Falling Into the Traps of Traditional Benchmarking Methods by Dolphin Integration in Design & Reuse |
April 22, 2010 -- Assessing the comparative performances of several standard cell libraries in a reliable way is a tricky project as it deals with statistical issues. The methodology traditionally used in the industry to benchmark standard cell ... read more |
| Scratching the Surface: The 2010 EDN DSP Directory by EDN Magazine |
April 22, 2010 -- This directory aims to provide designers and system architects enough visibility to dig into the processor options and quickly narrow the list of candidate processors for their project. This year’s update of the DSP Directory c ... read more |
| Timing Closure On FPGAs by EE Times Programmable Logic Designline |
April 22, 2010 -- Have you ever written code that behaves correctly under a simulator only to have intermittent failures in the field? Or maybe your code no longer functions properly when you compile with a newer version of your tool chain. You ... read more |
| An Analysis of Blocking versus Non-Blocking Flow Control In On-Chip Networks by Sonics, Inc. in Design & Reuse |
April 22, 2010 -- High-end system-on-chip (SOC) architectures consist of tens of processing engines. These processing engines have varied traffic profiles consisting of priority traffic that require that the latency of the traffic is minimized, ... read more |
| Software Development Team Collaboration Across Disciplines Using UML/ SysML by EE Times Embedded |
April 20, 2010 -- In the classic game of Telephone, players whisper a message to one another until it gets to the last person who retells the message. By the time it reaches the last player, the message has usually morphed into something complet ... read more |
| Getting Started with Multicore by Intel Corp. in EE Times Embedded |
April 19, 2010 -- Multicore processors are everywhere. In desktop computing, it is almost impossible to buy a computer that does not have a multicore CPU inside. Multicore technology is also impacting the embedded space, where increased performa ... read more |
| Embedded System Design with Open Source Software: Doing It Right by EE Times Embedded |
April 19, 2010 -- Software development is challenging. Embedded software development targeting the newest breed of devices is even more challenging. The additional hurdles faced in this sector of technology are largely down to the rapidly escala ... read more |
| An Application-Specific Processor for Many-Core Architectures by Design & Reuse |
April 15, 2010 -- Within communications and networking chips, most of the general-purpose processors still operate in single or dual-core architectures, but across the semiconductor industry there is growing evidence that the number of processor ... read more |
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