| Ease Production at 65nm with DFM by Mentor Graphics Corp. in EE Times EDA Designline |
February 15, 2011 -- The challenges of production at advanced process geometries are well-known. In anticipation of reaching today's leading-edge process nodes, electronic design automation (EDA) companies and chip foundries have been developing ... read more |
| Using Copper Pillars to Increase Analog IC Power Dissipation by Micrel, Inc. in EE Times Power Management Designline |
February 14, 2011 -- What's old is new again; how often have we heard this saying or observed how technology can recreate itself and follow this saying? Copper pillars have been used for many years in flip-chip or high-density semiconductors as ... read more |
| Automatic Shape-Based Routing to Achieve Parasitic Constraint Closure in Custom Design by Pulsic, Ltd. in EE Times EDA Designline |
February 9, 2011 -- Each smaller sub-micron process technology brings a new set of physical problems for IC designers. Among the toughest of these problems are meeting electrical parasitic constraints and minimizing signal-integrity issues in th ... read more |
| Floating-Point-Enabled Microcontrollers in Embedded Designs by New Electronics Magazine |
February 8, 2011 -- Floating point units (FPUs) can increase the range and precision of mathematical calculations or enable greater throughput in less time, making it easier to meet real time requirements. Or, by enabling systems to complete rou ... read more |
| Designing Remote Radio Heads (RRHs) on High-Performance FPGAs by Altera Corp. in EE Times Programmable Logic Designline |
February 7, 2011 -- Current and future generations of wireless cellular systems feature heavy use of Remote Radio Heads (RRHs) in the base stations. Instead of hosting a bulky base station controller close to the top of antenna towers, new wirel ... read more |
| Multicore Processors: Some of the Technical Issues by New Electronics Magazine |
February 7, 2011 -- When, in the mid 1960s, founder Gordon Moore noticed how quickly transistors were shrinking on silicon wafers, he concentrated purely on how much space circuits would take up over time. A few corrections ensued as the freneti ... read more |
| Multicore Processors: How Can You Programme Them? by New Electronics Magazine |
February 7, 2011 -- Chipmakers want you to buy multicore processors that, on paper at least, deliver much greater performance than their single core predecessors. The question is: can you make use of that performance? Parallelization is not all ... read more |
| Design Considerations in the Analog Signal Chain: Part 2 by Cypress Semiconductor Corp. in EE Times Planet Analog |
February 4, 2011 -- Up to this point*, we have discussed challenges faced in making precision analog measurements in generic high-precision systems where the range of measurement is typically in the volts range. There are systems that have measu ... read more |
| Compute a Histogram in an FPGA with One Clock by Texas Instruments, Inc. (TI) in EDN Magazine |
February 3, 2011 -- Histograms are often useful tools for analyzing digital data. To get reliable results from a histogram, though, you must collect large amounts of data, often with 100,000 to 1 million points. If you need to collect an ADC's d ... read more |
| Understanding Embedded System Boot Techniques by Freescale Semiconductor, Inc. in EDN Magazine |
February 3, 2011 -- To load a program into memory, you must first load a program into memory. The boot-up process, often a complex multistep sequence involving numerous substeps, solves this problem. Any boot-up process, including booting up Win ... read more |
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