312 results found for POV: Point Of View, displaying items 1 - 20
November 17, 2009
Tackling System Design Challenges Through Early Verification
For design teams in a number of industries, the cost of system verification is now their top challenge. With Model-Based Design, system-level verification can be performed earlier in the design process through modeling and simulation, shortening design cycles.
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Paul Barnard
October 1, 2009
Chip Makers Target LTE
With backing from nearly all of the leading cellular-service providers in the world, Long-Term Evolution (LTE) is clearly the 4G technology of choice for mobile data. Both Verizon and NTT plan to initiate LTE service late this year, with other major carriers following over the next few years.
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Linley Gwennap
August 18, 2009
Hybrid Flash Memory Gaining Traction For Handheld Applications
Smartphones continue to grow in popularity as their feature-rich environment steadily expands. Smartphone designs, which have evolved significantly over the past several years, are the result of an unprecedented amount of multi-functional convergence. The evolution continues as designers look at smarter memory solutions to resolve a number of important smartphone design issues.
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Vandana Venkatesan
August 13, 2009 Use Sampled Data Compression In Your ISM Applications
Compression is ubiquitous in consumer electronics. Modern compression algorithms exploit the limitations of human hearing and vision to offer compression ratios from 4:1 for speech and more than 30:1 for video, generating “good enough” audio and video for consumers. While these applications have used compression for years, many industrial, scientific, and medical (ISM) applications don’t use it. Many engineers in medical imaging, radar, sonar, test and...
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Al Wegener
July 22, 2009
The Design Creativity Debate Continues
It's not surprising that our recent article, "Have Designers Lost Their Ability To Be Creative?" generated some significant reader feedback. The article's author, Rob Evans of Altium, responds to their comments and encourages them to keep the conversation going.
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Rob Evans
July 15, 2009
Mind Your Thermal Management To Improve Reliability
Proper thermal management in the form of proper layout and the use of heatsinks or fans can increase product reliability. Catching flaws early in the design phase can save time and costs compared to dealing with failures in the field.
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John Parry
June 29, 2009
Should Dual Rail Go Mainstream in Deep Nanometer Era?
Deep sub-nanometer designs are stressed with large process variability. SRAM-bits have the most aggressive design rules in the SoCs, and the most variability. A dual rail solution offsets some of the variability at the cost of additional design efforts. Dual rail solutions appear to be complex, but several area, power, and performance tradeoffs can be made to simplify the design.
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Vipin Tiwari
June 25, 2009 VME And VPX—Moving Forward Together In Military/Aerospace Apps
As many designers familiar with military and aerospace applications know, VME has been the predominant form factor for more than 25 years. Because of its adaptability, ease of maintenance, and ruggedness, among other benefits, VME positioned itself extremely well against competing architectures years ago. Even today, in the face of upcoming VPX/VXS products, VME will have a significant role to play in the future of military and aerospace applications. ...
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Frank Phelan
May 28, 2009
People, Process, And Technology Innovation
Technology innovation is often the first area of change test engineers and managers consider, and rightfully so, since it typically translates to major system improvements and cost savings. Yet it may not yield maximum benefits by itself. In fact, major innovations often lie in waiting within your test organization with respect to people and process changes as well. Hence, innovation in your company’s approach to test can be found in a combination of people, process, and technology changes.
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Richard McDonell
May 28, 2009
Have Designers Lost The Ability To Be Creative?
Are you a creative person? Most of us have sufficient self belief to say yes. If you’re an electronics design engineer, it’s unquestionably true, because design is a creative process by definition. The real and challenging question, though, is if you apply that creativity to the benefit of the final product being developed. Watch out for the instinctive “yes” answer here, because that assumed truth needs scrutiny.
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Rob Evans
May 11, 2009
Take Five Steps To Increase Your Professional Value
In 2007, the world began the financial downturn that's now the new reality. Early hopes were placed on a quick recovery in 2008 after a “normal” recession, which we have come to realize was just the opening act. Now, daily news reports gush forth layoffs and corporate re-organizations and numerous other “efficiency measures.” The following five steps will help you secure your place in the future, in your current position at your company, and in the industry (read: other companies).
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Jon Pearson
May 1, 2009
Eclipse: The Subprime Of Open Source?
In some sense, the Eclipse Public License (EPL) is a “mortgage-free” license in that one is allowed to add components and market them in an open-source or closed-source way. You can take and never give back. The EPL allows open-source software loans to default since one can add components on top of Eclipse and market them in an opaque and restricted fashion. This creates the potential for a software subprime crisis: One can borrow and never pay back.
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Franco Gasperoni
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April 3, 2009
Go Analog With Microcontrollers
Most microcontrollers are paired with discrete analog components—like ADCs, amplifiers, filters, DACs, and comparators—to achieve filtering, signal conditioning, and signal conversion in systems like those that require interfaces to analog sensors or the filtering of noisy signals. To help alleviate the design challenges often associated with discrete analog component implementation, companies are integrating more of these functions into a microcontroller or microcontroller-like device.
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Erin Kettwig
March 13, 2009
The Value Of Good Corporate Citizenship
Recent events have brought attention to the behavior of corporate management and the entitlements that American corporations believe they have. But well run, responsible corporations maintain their value through good times and bad. A well-run company will stay the course in bad times knowing it is doing things right and maintaining value for customers, employees, and stockholders.
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Oliver H. Bailey
March 9, 2009
Take IP Networking To The Tactical Edge
Parallel computing is the way of the future. Many advantages can be reaped if IP networking can be taken to the tactical edge—where sensors collect valuable data. Why? Because IP networking is pervasive and inexpensive. And better than any other protocol we have today, IP networking can minimize the interoperability risks of developing applications on compute clusters in the laboratory and then deploying them to large systems in the field.
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Ian Dunn
February 13, 2009
Ultra-Low-Power, Ultra-Low-Noise ASIC Breakthroughs Enable New MEMS Sensors
Often, a technological breakthrough can lead to new products and even new applications that had previously been considered fantasy. Developments in low-power, low-noise readout ASICs could open new opportunities for microelectromechanical-systems (MEMS) sensors, particularly in medical monitoring, implantable devices, and military/sports monitoring.
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Andrew Glascott-Jones
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