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What’s In The Package?
By Ed Sperling - 09 Sep, 2010 - Comments: 0

By Ann Steffora Mutschler The growing market for smart mobile devices and high-performance processors requiring more than 2GHz of processing power is driving IP providers to do even more work to prepare their IP offerings for customers. This theme was reflected at last week’s GlobalFoundries Global Technology Conference when the company’s senior VP of technology and R&D Gregg Bartle... » read more

Estimating Power From Mobile Device Apps
By Ann Mutschler - 09 Sep, 2010 - Comments: 0

By Ann Steffora Mutschler How do software application developers – even the ones sitting at home on their living room sofas with laptops – measure the power consumption of their application on the target device? This is a big problem today (something that is painfully obvious to owners of iPhones or Blackberries), and it will only get bigger. Software engineers may think it is not their... » read more

Changes In The Ecosystem
By Ed Sperling - 09 Sep, 2010 - Comments: 0

By Ed Sperling For the better part of two decades, semiconductor companies have been talking about ecosystems mostly for marketing and economic reasons. They’re now talking thinking about ecosystems for complex technology reasons that involve integrated models for power, transactions and manufacturability. In the late 1990s, IBM began assembling its own loose ecosystem as a way of shieldi... » read more

Defining Power Intent
By Ed Sperling - 12 Aug, 2010 - Comments: 0

By Ann Steffora Mutschler Designing power-sensitive SoCs has never been more challenging given the tremendous demand for power efficiency in applications ranging from smart phones to servers inside data centers. That makes describing the power control architecture of a chip through power intent essential. Specifically, explained Will Ruby, senior director of product engineering and applicat... » read more

Can IP Be Standardized In Low-Power Designs?
By Ed Sperling - 12 Aug, 2010 - Comments: 0

By Ann Steffora Mutschler SoC designers are beginning to embrace low power formats UPF (IEEE P1801) and the Common Power Format (CPF) to express power intent, but are these efforts enough to create standardized IP in low power designs? Mike Brogley, IP and solutions product marketing manager at Actel, believes it is possible. “Yes, IP can be standardized, but the main driver in low-pow... » read more

New Low-Power Memory Interface Ahead
By Ed Sperling - 12 Aug, 2010 - Comments: 0

By Pallab Chatterjee The trend in consumer electronic devices is toward a multimedia-centric data flow, forcing changes in the memory interface needed to handle it. The increased compute resources needed for video signal processing, along with high-definition audio, used to be the exclusive domain of mainstream desktop computers and servers due to their access to memory and high data throug... » read more

Rethinking Models
By Ed Sperling - 12 Aug, 2010 - Comments: 0

By Ed Sperling The move to future process nodes will require more than just new materials, better layouts and higher levels of abstraction. It also will require a fundamental re-thinking of how high-level architectural models are created and what’s included in them. While the Transaction-Level Modeling (TLM) 2.0 standard has provided significant improvements for everything from layout to ... » read more

One On One With South Korea’s CTO
By Ed Sperling - 12 Aug, 2010 - Comments: 0

By Ed Sperling Chang-Gyu Hwang, national chief technology officer for South Korea, sat down with Low-Power Engineering to talk about the future trends in technology, global business and power. Prior to his current role, which was created by the Korean government in April, he ran the semiconductor business at Samsung, where he spent the last 20 years in top management positions. He also is the... » read more

Mobile Gaming: The Next Power-Saving Frontier
By Ed Sperling - 08 Jul, 2010 - Comments: 0

By Pallab Chatterjee Mobile and handheld gaming platforms are gaining lots of attention these days, and from a low-power engineering standpoint it poses a challenge that dwarfs any game played on the devices. Unlike mobile phones, these handheld platforms don’t have the luxury of trading off between multiple operating modes to extend battery life. Even worse, they have to perform at the ... » read more

Getting Low-Power IP Integration Right
By Ed Sperling - 08 Jul, 2010 - Comments: 0

By Ann Steffora Mutschler When it comes to integrating multivendor IP, power concerns dominate the challenges that engineers face. To get it right however, there are definitely questions that should be asked when considering which IP to use, along with techniques to manage power complexity. When choosing IP, the following points should be considered: How mature is the IP being sold? Has... » read more

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