Bernhard Linke is a principal member of the Technical Staff at Maxim Integrated Products Inc. He holds a Diplom-Ingenieur degree in Allgemeine Elektrotechnik from the RWTH in Aachen, Germany. Email address: bernhard.linke@maxim-ic.com Web site: http://www.maxim-ic.com
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August 27, 2009[Ideas For Design] Create A Smart Cable To Ensure Quality Control And Authentication
A quick search of the Internet reveals that cloned or knockoff cables are a growing problem. Common complaints from cable users documenting this problem include intermittent signals, poor long-term reliability, and complete malfunctions. These complaints are the result of cheap wire, improper contact plating, incorrect wiring, and poor quality control. Electronic instruments alone provide no easy way to tell the difference between a genuine cable and an inferior...
July 10, 2008[Design View / Design Solution] Technology Options And Issues For FPGAs
The five mainstream FPGA vendors—Actel, Altera, Lattice Semiconductor, QuickLogic, and Xilinx—have a combined market share of approximately 98%. The remaining percentage points account for a few specialty suppliers that offer FPGA-like capabilities. All of these companies are fabless operations and rely on wafer foundries in Taiwan, Japan, Singapore, or Germany to produce their wafers. As a consequence, they only have access to the technologies...
July 10, 2008[Design View / Design Solution] Protect Your FPGA Against Piracy
Over the past two decades, the field-programmable gate array (FPGA) has transitioned from a prototyping tool to a flexible production solution in both consumer and industrial applications. With FPGA logic complexity increasing from a few thousand gates to millions of gates, the devices are able to hold more of the key functions (intellectual property) of a system. Today, designers can select FPGAs that employ various technologies to hold the configuration...
