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01 June 2006
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News & Analysis
Cadence Design Systems Inc.'s 'e' verification language has earned the IEEE's stamp of approval, thus becoming an open standard that anyone can use or support.
Chinese fabless company Vimicro Corp. combines its image processors for PC cameras and audio chips for cellphones in its first line of multimedia chips for midrange feature phones.
The EDA firm claims it has slashed the time it takes to route a complex PCB from days to hours with XtremeAR, which allows simultaneous batch autorouting on up to 15 workstations.
Zoran Corp.'s Quatro 4230 digital printer processor provides color printer designers with a highly-integrated, fully-programmable SoC solution.
Version 3.0 of the RealView Development Suite has been heralded as a best-of-class IDE, supporting new and existing ARM architectures, including the Cortex M3 and A8 processor cores.
Newcomer Stratosphere Solutions has volunteered to help silicon fabs provide statistical parametric characterization with IP that inserts test structures in silicon wafers.
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NEC has developed an IC that compensates waveform distortion of modulated signals arising from polarization mode dispersion.
ADI spin-off Source Audio LLC rocks guitarists with Hot Hand, a ring that gives them the power to morph the sound of their electric guitars at will.
University researchers recently announced a major breakthrough in OLEDs for potential use as a flat, energy-efficient natural light source.
Korea and Taiwan IC design industries made little progress in 2005, according to the IC Design House Surveys conducted separately by EE Times-Korea and EE Times-Taiwan in February this year.
Startup OneSpin Solutions believes it has technology that will usher in a new era of IC formal verification. But if this company is successful, the real breakthrough may be one of bringing internal technology from a large integrated device manufacturer into a global, commercial EDA market.
Cellphones shipping in 2010 using the pending Long Term Evolution standard, now being drafted by the Third Generation Project Partnership, will support data rates of up to 100Mbps.
Presentations at the recent International Symposium on Physical Design offered new hope for chip design at 65nm and below, where temperature, voltage and process variations can have a dramatic impact on chip timing, manufacturability and yield.
Techniques that might help restore neurologically-impaired people's command over their environment are nearing commercialization.
Experts agree that the embedded-software industry will have to develop appropriate tools for writing code that efficiently operates in heterogeneous, asymmetric computing environments.
While multiple cores provide the potential to process applications in parallel, the software picture becomes much more complex. The challenge thus lies in figuring out how to efficiently harness this processing capability.
An FPGA with multiple soft embedded processors is programmable so that hardware resources can be tuned much more precisely to the needs of the software.
Designers must meet with their SATS provider to determine if the bumping technology they're using provides the right performance and reliability for their requirements.
Here are tips on the virtual system prototype method to improve the quality and productivity of embedded design.
This article sheds light on some relatively new PCB CAD capabilities you should know if you're involved with board design.
Technical Features
The AdvancedTCA standard covers areas such as rack size, power and environmental standards, but also extends its specifications to include telecom-specific requirements. (PDF file)
The most daunting task facing camera phone makers today is the addition of a small light source that won't rapidly drain handset battery life. (PDF file)
Next-gen car infotainment systems will emphasize on-the-fly configurability, depend on heavy-duty signal processing and require SoCs to embed lots of entertainment systems expertise in both hardware and software. (PDF file)
In GSM handsets, RF transceiver performance, radio solution BOM and reliability will spell economic advantages for both suppliers and end-users. (PDF file)
Learn the technologies inside and the functionalities provided by various video coding standards. (PDF file)
Symbolic simulation techniques are especially beneficial when used early in the design flow, particularly during the development of simulation models and circuit designs. (PDF file)
Know the tests required to validate compliance of 10Gbit Fibre Channel equipment with the standard, as well as the method used to evaluate error performance. (PDF file)
Opinion
Can Qualcomm maintain its iron grip on CDMA as the technology footprint gets bigger over the years?
Electronics is destined to play a strategic role in about every aspect of automotive technology and innovation, particularly in braking, steering and infotainment systems.
Interview
EE Times' Rick Merritt talked with Dean Kamen on the eve of his keynote speech at Embedded Systems Conference in San Jose, California, to discuss patents and his message to engineers.
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