| Wiser use of copper beyond DSL pushed
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2007-04-16 |
| With the expansion of large IP-networking carrier projects like Verizon's FiOS and BT Group's 21CN, it would seem all carriers want to show they are on a fiber-rich diet. But equipment that took center stage at the Comptel show in March indicated a focus on Ethernet services over copper. |
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| Home-networking systems should co-evolve with standards
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2007-04-16 |
| New home-networking systems must evolve along with the standards that will undoubtedly emerge in the foreseeable future. |
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| Equivalence checker supports FPGA optimizations
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2007-04-16 |
| Startup OneSpin Solutions GmbH has introduced a solution that makes FPGA equivalence checking practical by supporting those optimizations |
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| Altera opens 30th joint lab, training center in China
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2007-04-04 |
| Altera announced the opening of its 30th Joint Laboratory and Training Center (JLTC) at South China Normal University in China. |
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| FPGA use in HPCs plagued by bottlenecks
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2007-04-02 |
| Current FPGA synthesis, placement and routing tools are written for hardware designers, not software programmers. A new generation of ESL C-language compilers is attempting to bridge the gap |
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| Cut FPGA power usage
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2007-04-02 |
| Designers should consider BOM, cost, power board size and time-to-market when creating a new design. Hezi Saar gives tips and tricks about the factors in selecting an FPGA to implement the design |
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| 65nm FPGAs set new DSP performance
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2007-04-02 |
| Spreading its wings into new markets, Xilinx Inc. is shipping a line of high-end FPGAs that are optimized for high-performance DSP applications. |
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| Researchers pitch nanowires as litho replacement
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2007-04-02 |
| HP Lab and a trio of academic labs have scored advances that will make it easier to use nanowires as a replacement for lithography in semiconductor manufacturing, potentially taking chipmaking to the angstrom scale. |
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| Xilinx to offer training program for China's IC designers
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2007-03-30 |
| Xilinx Inc. is spinning up an experimental training program in China that aims to train 1,000 IC and system designers in the coming year to help seed local innovation and to win loyalty for its products. |
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| What is digital power?
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2007-03-20 |
| The advantages of digital power control make it a suitable approach for power supply design and board mounted power supplies in particular. |
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| FPAAs energize analog future
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2007-03-17 |
| In the same way that FPGAs have spawned advances in DSP, researchers at Georgia Institute of Technology believe their large-scale field-programmable analog array has the potential to seed growth in analog. |
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| Actel offers free IP cores for FPGAs
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2007-03-16 |
| Expanding its offerings for embedded-systems designers, Actel Corp. is rolling out a pair of free intellectual property controller cores that are optimized for its FPGA products |
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| Industry's finest awarded at China's first ACE Awards
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2007-03-12 |
| China had its first Annual Creativity in Electronics (ACE) Awards this month, celebrating the creators of technology and how they impact the industry. |
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| Indian firm picks Altera FPGAs for HD video decoder engine
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2007-03-08 |
| Altera Corp. announced that Ittiam Systems has selected Altera's Stratix II FPGA family to develop and deliver the Trinity multi-format high-definition video decoder soft IP core |
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| IC market on a sluggish start
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2007-03-06 |
| The IC industry has started off poorly in 2007, as demand for analog, DRAMs, FPGAs, NAND flash and other products have been weak thus far, according to a report from Gartner. |
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