March 15, 2004 Boards, Software, Serial Buses—A Busy ESC Covers It All
Conferences typically highlight the latest and greatest in products. The same is true for the 2004 Embedded System Conference (ESC) at Moscone Center in San Francisco, March 29 through April 1. Yet there's a twist. Many of the product releases will...
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William Wong
November 10, 2003 What's Hot At Comdex
It's another show of refinements as novel technologies are combined to create products for the consumer. At Comdex, change is in the air for desktops with the announcement that VIA and Maxtor will enable Serial ATA/RAID integration with AMD's Athlon...
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William Wong
May 26, 2003 What's Hot At DAC
As always, the 40th Design Automation Conference (DAC) in Anaheim (June 2-6) will have something for everyone concerned with EDA. The latest and greatest tools and methodologies will be displayed either on the show floor or in the sprawling labyrinth...
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David Maliniak
May 26, 2003 Scanning The Sessions
This year's DAC comes at a time when the semiconductor industry has been in a deep two-year recession. New design tools and methodologies certainly could help, and there's no better place to learn about them than at DAC. Keynote talks are...
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David Maliniak
April 14, 2003 What's Hot At ESC
THE EMBEDDED SYSTEM CONFERENCE (ESC) in San Francisco will bring a few surprises. But the real news will be the number of real products based on emerging technology, such as switch-fabric backplanes, Serial ATA, refinements on technologies like the...
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William Wong
June 10, 2002 Embedded Design Challenges Hold Center Stage At 39th DAC
The best technical conferences are planned with an eye on real-life design challenges. With embedded systems foremost in the minds of legions of design engineers, the 39th Design Automation Conference (DAC, June 10-14, New Orleans) takes its cues...
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David Maliniak
June 4, 2001 DAC Follows Industry's Lead And Takes Embedded Tack
Embedded systems are everywhere, or hadn't you noticed? The organizers of the Design Automation Conference (DAC) certainly have. As a result, this year's 38th DAC (June 18-22) will take on a decidedly embedded flavor as the EDA industry's annual...
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David Maliniak
February 19, 2001 The 2001 IEEE ISSCC
With 160 technical papers, three plenary presentations, eight evening panel sessions, half a dozen tutorials, two full-day workshops, and a full-day short course, the 2001 ISSCC provided a flood of information that quenched the thirst of even the...
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Dave Bursky
February 19, 2001 CMOS ADCs Surge Past 1 GHz As VCOs Race Toward 50 GHz
Scaling analog circuits and data converters in CMOS has always been a daunting task for designers. But those hurdles get taller as developers begin migrating toward design rules of 0.25 µm and below for lowering power consumption, size, and the...
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Ashok Bindra