category: Everything Low Power

category: IoT, Security & Automotive

2016 And Beyond
By Krishna Balachandran - 10 Dec, 2015 - Comments: 0

Greek mythology and Roman history are replete with soothsayers, some of whom got it right and others wrong. Cassandra was cursed that her predictions wouldn’t be believed, even though she predicted the Trojan horse. Caesar’s soothsayer predicted the demise of Julius Caesar during the Ides of March, which Caesar himself was skeptical about, but indeed he was murdered before the Ides passed. ... » read more

Is it Hot? Ask Joules
By Paul McLellan - 15 Oct, 2015 - Comments: 0

Over the last decade it has become clear that power reduction techniques involving different parts of the chips would become more important than they had historically. In 2G cell phones everything except the real-time clock could be turned off when the phone was not in use. Pre-smartphones, a phone was either making a call (or texting, gaming, etc.) or it was off. In fact, a cell phone can’t ... » read more

Two Constraints-Based Techniques To Address Power-Related Challenges In SoC Design
By Christine Young - 10 Sep, 2015 - Comments: 0

Power scheduling, power integrity targets, voltage drop—these are just a few of the power-related challenges you’re no doubt managing in your SoC designs. There aren’t any easy answers, but there are some emerging—and promising—techniques. Two such techniques, according to University of Toronto Professor Farid Najm, are constraints generation and constraints-based verification. “... » read more

How Do We Push The Limits Of Power?
By Brian Fuller - 14 May, 2015 - Comments: 0

Just how far will we be able to push down power in electronics system design? A bit farther, according to experts presenting at the recent Electronic Design Processes Symposium in Monterey. A combination of materials, techniques, technology and cultural change will get the industry there. During a panel session comparing fully-depleted silicon-on-insulator (FD-SOI) with finFET technology, J... » read more

How We’ll Get There from Here
By Brian Fuller - 09 Apr, 2015 - Comments: 0

The electronics industry is like a battleship with remarkable handling properties. I thought about it this week sitting at an industry event a day after stumbling across Neptune—the technology project, not the god. Those two experiences forced me to rethink some fundamental assumptions about system design and how the ecosystem responds to change. If you’ve not heard of Neptune, it�... » read more

With Object-Based Audio, Dizzying Design Possibilities
By Brian Fuller - 12 Mar, 2015 - Comments: 0

Technology innovation can be dizzying—literally. Walk through a place as vast and cavernous as Mobile World Congress (and walk and walk and walk) and you can’t help but get wobbly at all the innovation in the building. But find your way to the Fraunhofer booth and things get even more interesting. Here, you take a seat outside the booth, slip on a virtual reality headset and settle ... » read more

Postcards From The Edge (Of The Cloud)
By Brian Fuller - 12 Feb, 2015 - Comments: 0

The view from the edge of the cloud is pretty spectacular. Out here, there’s endless possibility. But out here on the edge, there’s turbulence, the cold buffeting swirl of today’s engineering challenges. On the edge, some see the Internet of Things (IoT) stalled. I wrote about this last month. The first wave of IoT devices — especially wearables — has quickly commoditized, driven b... » read more

How I Survived CES
By Brian Fuller - 15 Jan, 2015 - Comments: 0

To come away from the annual Consumer Electronics Show with a shred of sanity, you need to focus on what matters. It’s easy not to. The minute you step foot into the crush of any exhibit floor you’re dragged into a massive undertow of technology that’s hard to swim from. The hype is palpable, the noise deafening, the products endless. Because of this sensory overload, it’s easy to la... » read more

Electronic System Design In 2015: Busting Through Bottlenecks
By Brian Fuller - 04 Dec, 2014 - Comments: 0

It’s December, and that means it’s time to review what just happened in electronics design in the hopes that it will help light a path into the New Year. To simplify a year’s work in a global, sophisticated, ever-changing industry, you could say 2014 hinged on to two main tipping points: The marriage of EDA and IP was consummated. The road to the future forked. Let’s look at #1... » read more

The Multicore Processing Conundrum
By Brian Fuller - 06 Nov, 2014 - Comments: 0

We drive relentlessly into our technological future and often it seems like we’re upgrading our high-performance vehicle as it speeds forward. That’s no easy task, to be sure. We were roaring along fine, observing Moore’s Law, and then we hit a speed bump. So design teams quickly adopted multi-core designs to compensate for the fact that pushing up speeds on single-core CPUs was a melt... » read more

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