| Digital living room challenge: Make devices talk wirelessly
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2008-01-17 |
| Since a full suite of HDTVs, DVD players and cameras are now being delivered by consumer electronics companies into the digital living room, the question of how best to connect them wirelessly arises. |
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| FPGAs as DSPs deliver efficiency and generality
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2008-01-16 |
| Generality and efficiency are complex, multifaceted concepts. It's easy to focus on one particular weakness of a given approach. But in the end what matters is the actual performance, efficiency and flexibility that a chip delivers for a specific application. |
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| Design versatile high-speed ADCs
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2008-01-16 |
| The high-speed ADC is the bridge between the analog and digital hardware, and many times it is placed in the responsibility of an all-digital or all-analog hardware designer. When that happens, the programmability has easier acceptance with the digital hardware designer, but it can save the day for an analog hardware designer who failed to set up the digital timing or signal integrity properly. |
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| The coming of age of the PLD
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2008-01-16 |
| PLDs have evolved into one of the industry's most valuable design platforms. Today's PLDs continue to be at the heart of infrastructure systems and are now in the mainstream of digital consumer system design. |
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| HDMI crosses over to mobile world
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2008-01-14 |
| Silicon Image has rolled out technology and chips to bring its high-end wired HDMI to mobile devices including digital cameras, portable media players and cellphones. |
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| Gavrielov assumes Xilinx CEO post
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2008-01-09 |
| Xilinx Inc. has appointed Moshe Gavrielov, a former executive at Cadence Design Systems Inc., as its new president and chief CEO. |
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| India design houses gear up for business surge
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2007-12-28 |
| Top Indian chip designers are now tackling 45nm designs while adding new capabilities to extend their design services and prepare for an expected surge in business. |
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| The importance of the curve
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2007-12-17 |
| Design teams can greatly increase the efficiency of the embedded design process if the process flows smoothly from design to deployment along a smooth curve. |
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| Xilinx intensifies commitment to Asia
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2007-12-17 |
| Willem Roelandts, Xilinx chairman, CEO and president, talks about their commitment to Asia and the future of FPGA industry |
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| AMD 'accelerated computing' initiative gains ground
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2007-11-30 |
| Although only few commercial products have emerged as yet from the accelerated computing initiative announced by AMD last year, the company believes it has moved the effort past the first phase of a three-stage strategy to make specialized processing engines more commercially viable. |
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| eASIC, Tensilica team on low-cost customized ASICs
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2007-11-28 |
| Tensilica and eASIC have entered a partnership that allows eASIC to have free access to Tensilica's Diamond Standard microprocessor and DSP cores for its free mask charge, no-minimum order ASICs. |
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| Synplicity joins Xilinx ESL design group
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2007-11-28 |
| Synplicity, with its Synplify DSP software, has joined the Xilinx ESL Initiative that aims to make it easier for hardware designers and software programmers to leverage Xilinx programmable devices for their next-generation systems. |
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| India plays major role in Synplicity R&D road map
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2007-11-22 |
| Having its second-largest R&D site in India, Synplicity President and CEO Gary Meyers said it expects the country to be the engine of the company's future developmental activities. |
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| Sensors toughen up for industrial use
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2007-11-16 |
| While there has been a lot of discussion recently about the CMOS and charge-coupled device image sensors used in mobile devices, there's a plethora of sensor types used in other applications including HVAC, motion control, hydraulic systems and robotics. |
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| Altera, Synopsys to offer Nios II for ASIC designs
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2007-11-15 |
| Altera and Synopsys have announced that Altera's Nios II processor core will be available for licensing through Synopsys' DesignWare Star IP Program. |
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