295 results found for POV: Point Of View, displaying items 1 - 20
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
January 9, 2009
Automating Analog IP Process Migration
Creating reusable and portable analog intellectual property (IP) is a key trend to watch in EDA for 2009 and beyond. Finding a way to develop reusable analog IP will allow designers to build differentiated products quickly and cost-effectively.
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KT Moore
December 10, 2008
Use Algorithmic Synthesis To Solve Your FPGA Prototyping And Design Issues
Algorithmic synthesis—the efficient implementation of algorithms in silicon—offers compelling value to both system-on-a-chip (SoC) and FPGA design teams. However, there are subtle but important differences in the teams’ requirements when using algorithmic synthesis tools. This is especially true for FPGAs, which can be designed as just one in a series of steps to creating an SoC or as production-ready devices.
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Simon Napper
December 4, 2008
Use DisplayPort In Your Next TV Application
DisplayPort, a new interface standard from the Video Electronic Standards Association (VESA), simplifies display design and its associated connections. It also supports higher resolutions with robust electrical characteristics. Although the immediate application of the DisplayPort interface is in notebooks and display monitors, it is designed to be robust for many embedded and internal applications, such as digital TVs.
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Bertan Tezcan
November 17, 2008 PACs Address Increasing Green Monitoring Requirements
With the world’s escalating focus on climate change, ever-evolving environmental regulations, and the birth of new markets such as carbon trading, there has been a significant and rapid increase in the demands for environmental monitoring tools and the applications for which they are used. Programmable automation controllers (PACs) can solve these unique challenges. REMOTE MEASUREMENTS, NETWORKING ABILITIES To comply...
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Joel Shapiro
October 23, 2008 Assessing WiMedia UWB
Now that WiMedia Ultra-Wideband (UWB) products have been in the market for a year, it’s time to assess its progress and its future. Like most new technologies, there has been more hype than most people would like and some glitches upon introduction. On the positive side, the glitches are being fixed, product support by manufacturers is broad, and applications enabled by UWB’s unique combination of capabilities are emerging. TEETHING...
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Stephen Wood
October 9, 2008 FPGAs Get Behind The Wheel Of In-Cabin Automotive Systems
Programmable logic devices (PLDs) are gaining favor in the automotive in-cabin systems market due to their inherent flexibility and ability to be modified at the point of manufacturing— and ultimately at the point of sale. Targeting automotive systems that include driver assistance, infotainment, and communications, programmable logic is well suited to let designers meet the ever changing tastes and needs of consumers. Automotive production volumes and price...
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Dave Elliott
September 25, 2008 A New Era Dawns With The Rise Of The Embedded Hypervisor
Hypervisor and software virtualization is seen as a cure for the common IT problem of supporting multiple operating systems (OSs) and their applications running across the same hardware environments. This has fueled the widespread adoption of software virtualization across servers and datacenters worldwide. But what about the embedded world? There are two types of hypervisor. One runs on bare hardware, often forming a component part of a small microkernel. ...
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Robert Day
August 14, 2008 Wireless Security Gets A New Sheriff And Deputy—802.1x And EAP
Wireless technologies continue to grow with no sign of slowing down. Today, companies need to understand the advances in wireless security standards so they can easily integrate wireless infrastructure products (access points and clients) while utilizing and enhancing the network security infrastructure. As wireless security development continues, clever hackers continue to find new ways around security measures. To mitigate vulnerability to attacks, companies have...
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Vishal Kakkad
July 24, 2008 Consumer Video Chat: Hype Or Reality?
How can electronics designers capture the hearts and minds of the average consumer with video chat products? The concept of combining video and voice in two-way consumer communications devices is nothing new. For decades, there have been numerous attempts at bringing viable video telephony solutions to the market. Resulting products have ranged from the 1980s AT&T standalone video phone with its 33.6-kbit/s analog modem to recent broadband-based models...
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Kourosh Amiri
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