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16 July 2007
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News & Analysis
The largest EDA vendors acknowledge that the advent of multicore processors is a cause for both celebration and concern.
The buzz these days is that India is the "new China" of the cellular world. All the big multinationals have piled onto the subcontinent, chasing trendsetters in Mumbai and first-time buyers in remote villages.
The pursuit of different options within the Autosar automotive-software platform is leading to software incompatibilities that could undermine the standard's high-level goals, according to experts.
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. Ltd unveiled its latest and most ambitious design methodology for IC production at the challenging 45nm node.
Squeezed by low-cost giants like China and India in the manufacturing space and by R&D centers like Singapore and Taiwan at the high end, Malaysia is struggling to maintain its place as an electronics hub.
Key support from two pioneering chip design houses may help a fledgling mobile TV spec pull ahead of the field of competitors vying to become China's national standard.
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The Society for Information Display (SID) conference played host to the upcoming technologies driving the display market.
If you're hungry for the latest embedded development tools, EDA solutions and test technologies, you may want to feast at the 7th Embedded Systems Conference-Taiwan and 15th EDA & Test-Taiwan Conference & Exhibition, which will gather the world's top vendors, and showcase a smorgasbord of fresh design and test solutions on August 23-24 at the Taipei International Convention Center.
Lattice has announced the LatticeXP2 family of non-volatile FPGAs, produced in a 90nm process co-developed with foundry partner Fujitsu Ltd.
The 90nm Titan is a dual-core PowerPC processor aimed at high-end embedded markets with a multiclocking NMOS transistor architecture that enables the device to do more work in an eight- to nine-stage pipeline.
MaVeric is a comprehensive multivoltage verification solution that hopes to ease designers' struggles with low-power designs that require the verification of multiple voltage 'islands.'
Bluetooth and Wi-Fi attach rates are growing rapidly, but a problem is brewing with the rapid adoption of both technologies: 802.11g and Bluetooth share the same 2.4GHz unlicensed spectrum—opening the door to interference that can compromise performance.
As the Bluetooth specification has developed, new techniques have been added to ensure a peaceful coexistence with Wi-Fi in the unlicensed 2.4GHz ISM band.
Some acceleration features of network interface architectures can be performed efficiently in software—however, some can also harm performance, system integrity and security.
When adopting components of ABV into standard production flows, teams run into several challenges. This article gives tips and tricks when dealing with ABV.
A good engineer should know how to work across thermal and mechanical engineering, as every good design relies on these fields.
Technical Features
Deciding whether to design a homegrown solution or begin with a board-level digital video recorder depends on what your objectives are and how you set out to accomplish them. (PDF file)
Building an OFDM-based system has many considerations, depending on the operating environment and application requirements. This article presents challenges in developing these systems and includes design tips. (PDF file)
Today's analog system designers not only need to select the proper IC components but also accurately predict the interactions of these components within the system. (PDF file)
The adoption rate of FlexRay design-ins in the automotive industry is expected to accelerate in 2007, as consumers demand for safer, more reliable and cheaper rides. (PDF file)
To address power management in lighting solutions for portables, various devices are now combining charge pumps, boost converters, backlight, flash, RGB and LDO functional blocks. (PDF file)
Arbitrary waveform, function and RF signal generators as well as basic analog output modules vary in their features and functionality, and are suitable for different applications. (PDF file)
Performance-Based Logistics can be leveraged by commercial companies to reduce field-support costs and customer wait time by incorporating built-in diagnostics capabilities in the design. (PDF file)
Opinion
What's stopping multicore from taking the computing market by storm? It's the software.
Effective, simple and low cost, the OTP memory approach to protecting IP uses a random number generator to create a unique identification number from a large pool.
Interview
Linear co-founder and chief technical officer Robert Dobkin, who has been involved in the development of high-performance linear ICs for more than 30 years, talks about his favorite topics: Linear itself and larger design issues such as efficiency vs. power loss.
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