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16 October 2006
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News & Analysis
Observers say that the vision for next year's notebook will probably not be realized until the "refresh cycle" of systems that ship later in 2007.
The 45nm process technology node keeps heating up as more players make their moves.
Electronic system-level tools today aim primarily at hardware designers, but an upcoming SystemC architectural design tool expects to provide strong support for embedded-software development.
With two rival efforts to define a standard IC power description format now targeting different standards bodies, there's still not enough common ground to draw both into a single thrust.
Most Japanese hardware vendors consider recording an essential function for its local consumers—thus, that market has focused more on the sales of DVD recorders.
If anything was reinforced at this year's Embedded Systems Conference in Taipei, it's how software solutions are complementing the silicon world.
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Infineon's DRAM spin-off and Taiwan foundry Winbond have extended their DRAM manufacturing partnership.
Tektronix has applied its waveform image processor technology to transform real-time data and produce an RF spectrum presentation that reveals previously unseen RF signals and signal anomalies.
Recognizing India's core strengths, major Taiwan chip and electronic hardware manufacturers have expressed interest in engaging Indian firms to meet their requirements on a long-term basis.
EDA needs to shift its focus to providing solutions that emphasize productivity, rather than continuing to focus exclusively on tools aimed at the next technology node.
Infineon Technologies' first Asia-based front-end power fab in Kulim Hi-Tech Park, Malaysia will have a maximum capacity of 100,000 wafer starts per month using 200mm wafer discs.
A China home networking technology is gaining traction in the market, spurring its designers to pursue it as an international standard and to encourage the input of multinationals.
With the power supply engineer typically analog-trained and the customers an analog audience, power control manufacturers need a way to bridge the digital abyss.
Power management functions at the system level can be a product differentiator, so highlighting possibilities such as energy-saving modes, reporting and remote monitoring is important.
Handset makers are packing their phones with every feature possible, challenging power supply manufacturers to maintain long runtimes.
Determine whether a linear regulator is appropriate for the application based on its dropout voltage, ground current and stability-compensation method requirements.
The biggest design challenge for wireless, mobile and consumer ICs at the 90nm and 65nm nodes is to deliver power-efficient devices without sacrificing performance.
Repetition and examination of test outcomes are part of engineers' diligence while advancing the state-of-the-art.
Two engineers published a book on IC verification with C++ and launched a website with free open-source tools that can help IC verification teams.
Cadence's Encounter Timing System is said to provide signoff-quality timing analysis for both logic and physical designs for nanometer designs.
Major expansions to the company's WAN acceleration hardware and software will increase the system's interest to those working in EDA, mechanical CAD and similar R&D applications using versioning in a Unix environment.
Analogix hopes to surf a sea of opportunities with the release of transmitters and receivers for the emerging DisplayPort standard while supporting HDMI.
Infiniscale is offering behavioral modeling with automatic resizing and optimization, while SynCira is preparing an electrical-driven hierarchical analog layout synthesis tool to face touch analog design challenges.
After making its name in China for basic MP3 chips, Actions Semiconductor is moving up-market with two new chip series for personal media players.
Two companies originally founded with Wi-Fi hardware in mind are expanding their software base for more-complex planning and configuration tasks.
Jeda Technologies is adding transaction-level assertion to native SystemC assertion (NSCa), a verification automation tool suite introduced in February.
Technical Features
Emerging tech such as MIMO—which uses complex DSP algorithms requiring massive parallel processing capabilities—are promoting the use of platform FPGAs for DSP solutions. (PDF file)
Learn the factors that make amps oscillate and the general guidelines in designing high-speed amps. (PDF file)
Know the challenges in designing IP-STBs and consider a powerline solution to enable easy home connectivity for IPTV as well as other entertainment and computing apps. (PDF file)
Using PMBus and PMBus-enabled devices for power conversion provides flexibility, control and observability, which are not possible with traditional analog power-supply systems. (PDF file)
Designing for DDR2 SDRAM interfaces involves many challenges, but emerging FPGA-based memory interface solutions are being developed to provide a robust solution that meets the industry's performance needs. (PDF file)
Here's a parallel design method for a handset that can help ease challenges to PCB design brought by higher speed and integration in smaller devices. (PDF file)
With comparative advantages over other memory options, magnetoresistive RAM is expected to be the 'universal memory' of the future. (PDF file)
Advances in DFT rule checking will likely continue as more designs depend on increasingly complex testing protocols. (PDF file)
Selecting the appropriate measurement equipment and software tools can aid data collection and analysis to make the data useful. (PDF file)
Opinion
In the interim, we need to improve power management to avoid putting a power guzzler in the consumer's hand.
Fiber-optic technology has been gaining recognition as possibly the available and most versatile for certain display apps.
Interview
Hein van der Zeeuw shares his insights on the evolution of the electronics business and how shifts in the EMS, ODM and OEM models are affecting the electronics supply chain.
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