| Are Design and Test Conflicting or Symbiotic? by Synopsys, Inc. in Electronic Engineering Times (EE Times) |
October 20, 2010 -- These days, IC design engineers have more functionality to implement in their designs than ever before, even though design schedules are shrinking. Although design-for-test (DFT) is absolutely necessary to enable thorough and ... read more |
| EDA's Next Step: System-Level Design Automation by Synopsys, Inc. in Electronic Design Magazine |
October 20, 2010 -- There's little doubt that electronic design is undergoing a new wave of major transitions. Consumers' insatiable demand for more capabilities at lower power and cost is driving the need for hardware and software development o ... read more |
| User Expectations and Standards-Based Application Platforms by EE Times Embedded |
October 4, 2010 -- Imagine trying to develop and market a film camera today. No matter how well it is built, matter how good it looks, and no matter how well it performs, the likelihood that you’ll make money selling it is approximately zero.
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| How to Choose Great IP by Synopsys, Inc. in Design & Reuse |
October 6, 2010 -- There is immense pressure within the industry to reduce the cost of design, and sourcing low-cost IP is an attractive option. But a design team's choice of standards-based IP affects risk, schedule and quality for the entire c ... read more |
| The "Long Tail" of FPGAs by Altium, Ltd. in EE Times Programmable Logic Designline |
October 5, 2010 -- Since their introduction in the mid-80s, FPGAs have managed to wedge themselves as a fixture into the electronics design landscape. Sitting somewhere between off-the-shelf (OTS) logic, ASICs, OTS processors, and ASSPs, they co ... read more |
| Bridging the Gap Between Custom ASICs and ARM-Based MCUs by Cypress Semiconductor Corp. in EE Times Embedded |
October 4, 2010 -- One perspective for thinking of the embedded world is as a spectrum of complexity ranging from ASIC to MCU. ASIC designs are enormously expensive and take years to complete but the potential for innovation is almost unbounded. ... read more |
| Why MIPS Is Just a Number by Cypress Semiconductor Corp. in EE Times Embedded |
October 3, 2010 -- It is common to represent microcontroller (MCU) computation capability in terms of MIPS (millions of instructions per second). However, no two MCU or system on chip (SOC) architectures are same, nor is the amount of integratio ... read more |
| Evaluating High-Speed ESD Suppression Technologies by Electronic Products in Electronic Products Magazine |
October 1, 2010 -- The recent acceleration of data rates fueled by the high-definition television and monitor markets, as well as by the faster USB 2.0 and 3.0 protocols, have made some of the more traditional ESD protection techniques obsolete. ... read more |
| Is Your System Ready for 25Gbps? by Electronic Products in Electronic Products Magazine |
October 1, 2010 -- Data-transmission speeds are continuing to rise as consumers demand ever-higher performance from a variety of communications devices. New trends like cloud computing or Internet-based computing, where the need for seamless acc ... read more |
| Improving Performance of 32-bit MCUs by Renesas Electronics Corp. in Electronic Products Magazine |
October 1, 2010 -- With MCU performance and peripherals largely determining the overall capabilities of an embedded design it is easy to see why preoccupation with a popular core drives many MCU-based projects. But when you design a system with ... read more |
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