Managing Memory With Embedded Software

By Ann Mutschler - 22 Aug, 2013 - Comments: 0

By Ann Steffora Mutschler Memory is shaping up to be a key leverage point for embedded software going forward as it represents such a large fraction of the silicon real estate in today’s SoCs. Managing memory effectively and memory bandwidth also represents a significant fraction of the potential bottlenecks and the power dissipation. As such, everything embedded software can do to enhance h... » read more

Experts At The Table: Multi-Core And Many-Core

By Ed Sperling - 21 Jul, 2013 - Comments: 0

By Ed Sperling Low-Power Engineering sat down with Naveed Sherwani, CEO of Open-Silicon; Amit Rohatgi, principal mobile architect at MIPS; Grant Martin, chief scientist at Tensilica; Bill Neifert, CTO at Carbon Design Systems; and Kevin McDermott, director of market development for ARM’s System Design Division. What follows are excerpts of that conversation. LPE: Computers aren’t gettin... » read more

Rethinking Big Iron

By Ed Sperling - 13 Jun, 2013 - Comments: 0

By Ann Steffora Mutschler One size does not fit all when it comes to the server market, and that may be the best option for low-power processor makers to gain a toehold in a world that until now has been almost laser-focused on performance. Even higher-performance versions of low-power processing architectures are starting to show up inside of datacenters. Many are application-specific ... » read more

Experts At The Table: The Internet Of Everything

By Ed Sperling - 30 May, 2013 - Comments: 0

By Ed Sperling System-Level Design sat down to discuss the Internet of Things with Jack Guedj, president and CEO of Tensilica; John Heinlein, vice president of marketing for the physical IP division of ARM; Kamran Izadi, director of sourcing and supplier management at Cisco; and Oleg Logvinov, director of market development for STMicroelectronics’ Industrial and Power Conversion Division. Wh... » read more

Lessons Learned In 4G LTE

By Ann Mutschler - 09 May, 2013 - Comments: 0

By Ann Steffora Mutschler While 4G LTE has moved into the mainstream, there are lessons to be learned about these very complex modems, especially from the perspective of balancing power and performance. The road to mainstream wasn’t exactly smooth sailing. “4G LTE initially got a bad rap for battery life, for power consumption,” said Pete Hardee, low-power design solution marketin... » read more

Shades Of Green

By Ed Sperling - 09 May, 2013 - Comments: 0

By Ann Steffora Mutschler Ask five people in the electronics industry what ‘green’ means and you are sure to get five different answers. In the datacenter, the definition is a little clearer because big iron draws so many amps. But at the SoC level where does the industry stand? The answer is as multifaceted as an SoC itself, with some answers based more on one-upmanship than real met... » read more

A Poison Apple

By Ann Mutschler - 09 May, 2013 - Comments: 0

As I was researching ‘green’ as it relates to the world of semiconductors I recalled the big story from early 2011 about Apple’s alleged poisoning of workers in China manufacturing plants and wondered whether the situation has changed. At the same time, when I hold my iPhone in my hand, I am sadly aware that my desire for technology might have been at the cost of someone’s health. I ... » read more

Experts At The Table: The Internet Of Everything

By Ed Sperling - 03 May, 2013 - Comments: 0

Experts At The Table: The Internet Of Everything

By Ed Sperling - 25 Apr, 2013 - Comments: 0

Subsystems And Reuse

By Frank Schirrmeister - 23 Apr, 2013 - Comments: 0

By Frank Schirrmeister The last couple of weeks have been very busy with travel, customer meetings and presentations—DATE in Grenoble, CDNLive in San Jose and, most recently, EDPS in Monterey. Software enablement and IP sub-systems have been the key themes throughout these events, and during Gary Smith’s keynote at EDPS, I realized that subsystem reuse may be a significant step to solving ... » read more

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Managing Memory With Embedded Software

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