| Software Defined Radio: Defining the Challenges by Fraunhofer Institut fur Integrierte Schaltungen in EE Times RF & Microwave Designline |
January 17, 2011 -- Software defined radio (SDR) has become a hot topic in the industry and is seen as a solution for many of the development problems for new radio platforms. It is generally perceived that SDR is the answer to the need for fle ... read more |
| Using Co-Design to Optimize System Interconnect Paths by Cadence Design Systems, Inc. in EE Times Embedded |
January 16, 2011 -- Since the dawn of semiconductors, the dies, the packages, and the boards they reside on have typically been designed by different teams that focus their expertise between predefined boundaries. Most have seen those flows wher ... read more |
| Mixed-Signal Designs: The Benefits of Digital Control of Analog Signal Chains by Intersil Corp. in EE Times Planet Analog |
January 15, 2011 -- Mixed-signal designs combine the most powerful features and advantages of both analog and digital circuitry. One common mixed-signal architecture is a chain of analog signal blocks, each controlled by digital logic. These des ... read more |
| Using PSpice to Analyze Amplifier Loop Stability: Part 2 by National Semiconductor Corp. in EE Times Planet Analog |
January 13, 2011 -- Part 1 of this article looked at what makes an amplifier unstable, and worked through a high-speed low-noise transimpedance amplifier (TIA) stability example. Armed with a good PSpice-based analytical method to investigate pr ... read more |
| An RTL-to-GDSII Approach for Low Power Design: A Design for Power Methodology by Apache Design Solutions, Inc. in EE Times EDA Designline |
January 12, 2011 -- To be competitive, IC designs that power data centers and mobile handheld devices not only need to control and reduce their overall power consumption, but also must excel in other metrics such as performance per watt or perfo ... read more |
| How an Emerging Methodology Better Supports SOC Design by Cadence Design Systems, Inc. in Electronic Design Magazine |
January 11, 2011 -- Fueled by massive functional capacity, high-performance and low-power silicon processes, and exploding software application content, the pace and scope of electronics innovation is accelerating. The challenges of forging incr ... read more |
| FPGA Technology at the Pointy End of the Spear by Electronic Engineering Times (EE Times) |
January 10, 2011 -- Starting with the transatlantic telegraph cable, laid in 1866, telecommunications applications have always been the driver for the highest data rate systems. To feed this need for speed, the signal integrity performance of th ... read more |
| How Are Competitors Differentiating Cortex-M3 based MCUs? by New Electronics Magazine |
January 10, 2011 -- When ARM launched the Cortex-M3 core in 2004, it opened new opportunities for microcontroller developers. Previously, these companies needed to create and maintain their own mcu core; now, that work would be done by ARM, leav ... read more |
| Are MEMS-Based Oscillators a Viable Alternative to the Quartz Crystal? by New Electronics Magazine |
January 10, 2011 -- Traditionally, quartz crystal oscillators have been the preferred choice for clock generation in consumer, computing and communication applications. But the quest for a replacement technology is on the increase, partly due to ... read more |
| Debugging for Power Consumption by IAR Systems AB in New Electronics Magazine |
January 10, 2011 -- Power consumption has traditionally been something influenced only by hardware developers. But power consumption depends not only on the hardware, but also on how it is used and how it is controlled by the system software. Th ... read more |
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