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February 19, 2008
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Missed the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona? Check Out
Electronic Design's MWC Site.
Electronic Design's Mobile World Congress Design Hotspot is chock full
of information coming out of the hottest show in the industry for
mobile
devices. We'll keep you up to date with the latest product and
technology news from the show, and coming soon: video interviews from
the show with Editorial Director, Mark David, and Technology Editor,
Lou
Frenzel. CLICK HERE.
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Optimism Abounds For Emulation Sector In
2008
Lauro Rizzatti, General Manager
EVE-USA
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Unlike so many of my colleagues within the EDA industry, I'm
optimistic about 2008. That's because the emulation market sector is on
the rise and I believe we could see double-digit growth in this sector.
Yes, I'm defying the paltry 2% growth some EDA executives have forecast
for the entire industry.
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full article...
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OSCI Closes Review Of New TLM Draft Standard
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After over 1400 downloads from all corners of the globe, the Open
SystemC Initiative (OSCI) has ended the review period for the draft of
its TLM-2 modeling standard for transaction-level modeling. The new
draft standard further increases tools interoperability for virtual
platforms containing memory-mapped buses and on-chip communication
networks.
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full article...
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Antenna Designers: Your Software Is
Ready
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With the release of its latest Antenna Modeling Design System
(AMDS), Agilent's full-wave 3-D electromagnetic (EM) modeling and
simulation software contains a scripting feature for performance
optimization and automation of complex designs such as patch-array
antennas. With it, designers can fine-tune antennas for the best
performance within electronic devices, such as cell phones.
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full article...
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Formal Verification Process Boosts
Productivity
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Claiming dramatic gains in formal verification productivity,
OneSpin
Solutions has announced a systematic verification process that defines
a
structured and integrated sequence of user activities and tool tasks.
This sequence predictably transforms the design-under-verification
(DUV)
and its informal specification into a gap-free formal specification and
a provably equivalent DUV.
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full article...
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Which one of your gadgets needs
better
power efficiency?
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- Your cell phone
- Your laptop
- Your MP3 player
- Your portable video player
To take the poll, Click Here. Remember to scroll down...
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Rev up your interdisciplinary design skills
What happens when a microcontroller turns on a power FET, sending a
current pulse to a motor coil that develops a magnetic field that turns
the rotor shaft, advancing a timing belt that drives a pair of nip
rolls
suspended on bearings in a web-processing operation on a form, fill,
and
seal machine installed on a potato chip line at a Frito Lay plant in
central California? And how can you be sure that the encoders, prox
sensors, and other feedback devices you plan to use will accurately see
and report every relevant motion, machine state, and process condition?
And will the signals get through the networks fast enough, without
being
corrupted, giving the controllers time to execute their algorithms as
intended? It's a lot to think about, and it only scratches the surface
of what many engineers grapple with today. If you happen to be one of
them, then the place for you — where you can find answers and
meet
others with similar concerns — is www.Mechatronic-Design.com.
Backed by some of engineering's top information sources including
Machine Design, Electronic Design, Motion System Design, and Power
Electronics, Mechatronic-Design.com is the interdisciplinary
engineer's desktop, toolbox, library, and lifeline in one easily
accessible place.
Find. Learn. Apply.
Mechatronic-Design.com.
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Your Ideas For Design Can Win $500
Send us your Ideas for Design and we'll pay you $150 for every Idea for
Design that we publish. In addition, the year's top design as selected
by our readers will earn an additional $500, with two runners-up each
receiving $250. You can submit your Ideas for Design via e-mail to: dbs@penton.com or, mail your material
to:
Ideas for Design
Electronic Design
45 Eisenhower Dr., Suite 550
Paramus, NJ 07652
Click here for our guidelines on Ideas for Design...
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CMOS Circuit Design, Layout, and Simulation:
Second Edition
By R. Jacob Baker
ISBN: 978-0-470-22941-5
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For those who are up-and-coming hotshot designers, as well as the
veterans who've seen a lot of scaling in their time, there's a good
deal
of meat in this 1000+ page reference. Covering both long- and
short-channel CMOS technologies in a two-path approach, the book begins
with the basics, including an introduction to Spice simulation. After
chapters on the makeup of a CMOS device, it moves into operational
aspects as well as CMOS fabrication.
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full article...
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