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June 17, 2008
Cars Tap Wireless, Memory Technologies For Improved Safety
The automobile has come a long way since its inception in the 1700s. What’s next for the cars of tomorrow? While we won’t exactly be flying about like the Jetsons, in the coming years, features like traffic notification systems and speed limit alarms will enhance the driving experience and make it a lot safer.
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Gaurav K. Agrawal
April 3, 2008
Prompt Standardization Of Advanced Features Opens Doors To New Markets For PCI Express
After effectively superseding the PCI bus, PCI Express interconnect technology is now entrenched in its early high-growth markets: PCs, workstations, servers, and storage systems. It has started to penetrate other markets as well, and it is on track to become more popular than any previous interconnect standard. This success has come about for two reasons.
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Larry Chisvin
March 4, 2008
Bring More Automation Into Mixed-Signal Design
A crisis of critical proportions is emerging as more and more IC designs demand a complex mix of digital and analog functionality to meet cost, size, packaging, power, and price considerations. This is a switch: in the past, most chips have been either digital or analog. And as a result, the underlying design and verification engines and flows used today are architected to handle contrasting requirements of either digital or analog/full-custom domains.
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Ashutosh Mauskar
March 11, 2007
ESL Goes Mainstream
Design at the electronic system level (ESL) continues to gain traction, as system-level modeling has moved past the system architect into the realm of software and hardware designers. As a result, ESL design is becoming a mainstream reality.
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Devadas Varma
November 14, 2006
FPGA Clusters Combine with Mesh Architectures
Embedded signal processors traditionally have been built with clusters of general-purpose floating-point processors. FPGAs usually have been used on the edges of the cluster to perform signal conditioning, while the hard processing work was reserved for the PowerPCs.
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Bob Walsh
December 23, 2002 Many Technologies Contribute To Miniaturization
Electronic miniaturization is not simply a process of making everything smaller. Miniaturization of one phase of a product usually reveals limitations and obstacles in other parts of the overall design and manufacturing process. So progress often...
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Gary Pinkerton
November 11, 2002 Digital Revolution Delivers Enhanced Audio Playback Systems
A digital revolution is under way in audio. It began with digital mastering, analog-input Class-D amplifiers, and the CD, but the momentum is increasing. Today, partially digital systems are common, although fully digital audio playback systems, with...
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Rusty Allred
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October 14, 2002 Innovations In Motion Control Shape Future Vehicles
Despite all of the electronics that have found their way into today's typical medium-priced automobiles, there's still room for more. One area that needs immediate attention is power semiconductor-driven motion-control technology. While motion control...
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Alex Lidow
August 19, 2002 Clearing The Fog That Surrounds Derating Curves
A marketing guru once said: "A data sheet isn't only a technical document, but also a marketing tool." Following this mentality, dc-dc converter manufacturers creatively market their products. In the world of high-density dc-dc converters, especially...
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Anastasios Simopolous
June 24, 2002 The Gang That Couldn't Shoot Straight
We hardly think of our industry's performance in terms of behavior like the Three Stooges or Laurel and Hardy. Yet, it wouldn't be much of a stretch to conjure up such images if we were to tell a visitor from another planet that we in the...
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Paul Rosenfeld
May 27, 2002 EDA Tools Need Balance Between Integration And Innovation
Designs are moving aggressively toward 130 nanometers (nm). Just on the horizon lie new technologies at 100 nm. Given these small geometries, three fundamental barriers must be overcome to improve the turn-around time of large system-on-a-chip (SoC)...
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Kevin Walsh
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