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01 October 2006
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News & Analysis
Networking and security standards for digital media are fragmented, Linux has many variants, and nagging issues still abound in the remote access and QoS areas.
The lack of effective DRM is affecting the digital music, broadband video, mobile TV, HD-DVD, IPTV and home networking markets at a technical, business model and competitive level.
Communications and media processors meet the stringent requirements needed for delivering multimedia content.
Suppliers must develop even more efficient, lower-current-consuming modules to enable the MIMO market.
To cut development time, follow these guidelines for avoiding common problems in designing with an SMPS and digital amplifier.
Craig Mathias lauds the open-source route and offering something of value in exchange for recognition.
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Despite the challenges, the transition to 90nm designs is proceeding more smoothly than the earlier move to 130nm design rules.
Growing demand for smaller and less power-hungry sensors has sparked a market for swipe-type sensors--two of which are Fujitsu's silicon-based MBF320PBT-GE1and Synaptics' swipe touchpad solution.
China's AVS Part 2 has yet to gain traction in the market, with the country's largest IPTV service providers using H.264 in their latest IPTV deployments.
Prices of 17-inch LCD panels for desktop PC monitors will increase by 19 percent in the second half, according to a report from market research firm iSuppli, rising to $123 in December from $102 in July.
A recent survey has painted contrasting pictures of go-getter engineers in India and today's typical U.S. engineer.
Sun Microsystems will pack native PCI Express and 10GbE interfaces onto its next-generation Niagara processor. The resulting server-on-a-chip generated debate about the future of integrated I/O in the era of multicore microprocessors.
China's market for new fabs and IC equipment is falling short of expectations for sizzling long-term growth, as companies juggle their need for profitability with a government directive to ramp up a host of 200mm and 300mm wafer fabs that are now on the drawing board.
Months after the enforcement of the European Union's ban on the use of six environmentally unfriendly materials, designers have clear evidence that failure to meet the RoHS directive means lost sales.
Semiconductor Research Corp. and the National Science Foundation are funding a groundbreaking research effort into "self-healing" chips that can detect and repair defects in the field.
NEC Electronics' new packaging technology allows more than 1,000 3D interconnections between the logic and memory dice used in an image-processing system.
Sunplus Technology is beefing up its engineering team in hopes of realizing design wins for its 2.75G offerings and new 3G chipset platform.
Vericept Corp. recently launched Desktop 360° for monitoring traditional desktops, as well as laptops and removable peripherals.
Cypress Semiconductors' PSoC Express 2.1 lets developers create embedded designs without writing code, making PSoC an option for developers who have never created embedded designs.
Global Unichip has added an H.264 encoder and decoder to its chest of consumer IP blocks. Meanwhile, Faraday Technology is boosting its own IP offerings with two memory compilers that reduce area and power consumption.
Ten times faster than the previous version, Macraigor Systems' J-Scan version 2.1 boundary-scan tool communicates with an interface that is compatible with USB 1.1 or 2.0.
MataiTech LLC has rolled out Nauet, a tool that lets hardware and software engineers collaborate at the earliest stages of a design.
Certimax compares simulation data created during the design phase with events measured at the I/O pins of the physical device.
Cisco Systems Inc. has bundled tools for access control, LAN management and configuration management into a suite called Pace.
Silex Technology America Inc. has introduced a source-code-level software product for OEMs called the Network Security Suite.
Technical Features
This article discusses how C programmers for embedded processor cores within SoCs can reduce both code-execution time and memory footprint. (PDF file)
This new standard promises to help operators increase capacity, offer richer multimedia services and get their money's worth out of 3G. (PDF file)
Fairchild Semiconductor integrates power-off protection in analog switches to avoid unintended signal glitches and excessive current leakage. (PDF file)
Floating-point arithmetic is designed to meet precision and performance requirements for an increasing number of applications.. (PDF file)
EDA-software providers must develop new tool functionality and present scalable design methods and flows in SiP. (PDF file)
32bit implementations liberate system designers from examining their algorithms in detail for quantization issues in motor control systems. (PDF file)
Here are instrument and measurement basics that will help you avoid frequency-measurement errors in spectrum and vector signal analyzers. (PDF file)
This article features a multipurpose wafer-sort and final-test solution designed to address the economic requirements of the MCU, wireless baseband, display driver and low-cost consumer mixed-signal devices. (PDF file)
Opinion
One word that kept buzzing on the ESC-Taiwan and EDA&T-Taiwan floors was software.
Two years ago, brushless motors were more expensive than brush motors. But thanks to advances in design and materials, brushless motors have experienced a drop in pricing.
Interview
At STMicroelectronics' back-end IC factory in Shenzhen, Bob Krysiak, the company's corporate VP and general manager for the region, recalled the development of the first single-chip MPEG-2 decoder ICs and discussed his ideas on the development of digital entertainment equipment in China.
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