Tech Talk: Sensor Design

By Ed Sperling - 03 Sep, 2015 - Comments: 0

NXP's Wouter Sijm talks about sensor design in the IoT age, where engineers can go astray, and why the IoT is a more complex environment for sensors than previous devices. [youtube vid=7fqEatgvZnE] » read more

Today IoT Is Cool, Tomorrow IoT Can Change Mankind

By Linh Hong - 03 Sep, 2015 - Comments: 0

Who today doesn’t think IoT is cool? And, why not? We’re in an era where everything is connected to everything else in a six degrees of separation-like scenario for our electronics devices. Automatic washing machines and domestic refrigerators were cool to our grandparents because they enabled them to have more time for other pursuits. IoT is cool today for the same reason. Smart homes,... » read more

Tech Talk: DDR4

By Ed Sperling - 17 Aug, 2015 - Comments: 1

Rambus' Ely Tsern digs into the challenges in integrating DDR4 compared with DDR3 and why it will get even more difficult over the next few iterations. [youtube vid=2M6vFweaZ-M] » read more

Recharging The Battery

By Ernest Worthman - 13 Aug, 2015 - Comments: 0

There are few technologies in today’s cutting-edge technological environment that have a difficult time finding new levels of performance. Battery technology is one of them. With the exception of a few experimental offerings, batteries and their performance metrics are relatively flat. There has been some progress, of course. But when compared to other technologies such as transistors, mem... » read more

Doing More With RTL Power Analysis: Smart Synthesis Architecture

By Anand Iyer - 13 Aug, 2015 - Comments: 0

Traditionally RTL power analysis has been used to understand the design power consumption so that package and power supply designs can start, and designers can then fix any power regression violations in subsequent design iterations. However, migration to finFET processes is causing designers to look at RTL power analysis differently at advanced nodes. FinFET processes have largely addressed... » read more

The Real Value In Customizing Instructions

By Emerson Hsiao - 06 Aug, 2015 - Comments: 0

One element that distinguishes devices for the emerging IoT market from the mobile devices of the mature handheld market is power. Specifically, while the latter can accept a battery recharge cycle of days, the former demands years between battery recharge/replacement. Where the two devices resemble one another is their need for high performance. While embedded CPU cores have concentrated o... » read more

What Is A System Now?

By Ann Mutschler - 25 Jun, 2015 - Comments: 0

Defining a system used to be relatively straightforward. But as systems move onto chips, and as those chips increasingly are connected with applications and security spanning multiple devices, the definition is changing. This increases the complexity of the design process itself, and it raises questions about how chips and software will be designed and defined in the age of the [getkc id="76... » read more

Power Verification Now Required

By Ann Mutschler - 17 Jun, 2015 - Comments: 0

Today’s verification tasks may seem daunting — and much of it is — but all of it is absolutely necessary to make sure chips operate properly with a larger system. Throw power into the mix and the challenges mount. The good news is that there is no shortage of tools and methodologies to help with these tasks. The bad news is that even the best tools won’t make the challenges disappear... » read more

Confidence Is The New Verification

By Srikanth Jadcherla - 16 Jun, 2015 - Comments: 0

Everywhere around us the devices we use are getting connected to each other digitally. New devices that sense and quantify the parameters we need to make decisions are also being created. It is estimated that 26 billion connected devices will be installed by 2020, or roughly four per person on the planet! The whole purpose of the connected device is to observe/report and control remotely, of... » read more

When Things Go Wrong Even When You’re Doing the Right Thing

By Joseph Hupcey III - 28 May, 2015 - Comments: 0

By Kurt Takara and Joe Hupcey III “Isolation. Retention. Level shifters. Dynamic voltage scaling. I’m doing all the right things to reduce the power consumption of my design by adding all of this power control logic. But because of this new low power circuitry, I’m seeing fresh clock domain crossing (CDC) problems that are making my design do all the wrong things; and my trusty old low... » read more

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