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September 16, 2008
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October 15 is One Powerful Day
Power Electronics Technology and Penton Media's Electronic Design Group
bring the latest in power design information direct to you, the Power
Designer, with the premier of ONE POWERFUL DAY, a FREE online conference
with a full day of top speakers on top topics via web conferencing. With
invited speakers and a conference program designed and hosted by the top
editors in the world of Power Electronics, you can be sure that this
conference with be on target with your information needs as a power
system designer. Marquee Sponsorship by International Rectifier.
www.electronicdesign.com/onepowerfulday
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Debugging SoCs Is More Complex Than Finding A
Needle In A Haystack
By Lauro Rizzatti, General Manager
EVE USA, San Jose,
Calif.
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Do you remember 1964? That’s when Motown Records’ The
Velvelettes, backup singers for Martha Reeves and the Vandellas,
cheekily sang,“‘cause finding a good man, girls, is like finding a
needle in a haystack.†The song offers refreshingly sound advice 48
years later as the singers intone, “You’d better get yourselves on
the right track.†It seems that these days finding a bug in a
system-on-a-chip (SoC) design has become significantly tougher than
searching for a good man was in 1964. With engineering teams combining
hardware with embedded software, they are forced to simultaneously sort
out hardware and software issues, instead of just one or the other in a
serial fashion. So that makes two haystacks, not one.
Read the
full article...
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New Product Showcase: TI And
Nexergy
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Keith Ogboenyiya, Marketing Manager for Automotive
Microcontrollers at Texas Instruments, talks about a new series of
32-bit C2000 controllers that offer real-time control in a 38-pin
package at sub-$2 pricing. Watch it
now...
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John Costas, Executive Vice President of Nexergy, talks about
designing custom battery packs for portable applications. Watch it
now...
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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 you can 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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Looking for the latest design techniques and technology in your market?
Check out Electronic Design's Design
Hotspots. Here you'll find exclusive content from our editors in Embedded, Power, and Analog
technologies as well as Green Design and ROHS.
We've also compiled Ideas for Design schematics here for your circuit
design sweet-tooth. These spots are chock-a-block with information, so
don't delay!
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 Dr. Michael Siegel, OneSpin Solutions’ product marketing
director, spills the beans on OneSpin's SystemVerilog Assertions (SVA)
library, which gives users of the company's 360 Module Verifier the
ability to capture timing diagrams as SVA assertions. Visit www.onespin-solutions.com
For more videos from DAC, click
here.
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In the spirit of the Beijing Olympics, National Instruments featured
this interactive LabVIEW demonstration at NI Week 2008. Competitors
could compete in a video game reminiscent of the original Konami "Track
and Field" series. The game was programmed using NI LabVIEW graphical
programming software and the control interface utilizes the classic
Nintendo Power Pad, a mat with twelve pressure-sensors embedded between
two layers of flexible plastic. Other competitions included a fencing
match and a remote-control car race.
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Visions of the Future (Part 1): A Ubiquitous
Cloud of Computing
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A vastly different information technology (IT) landscape awaits us
in the not-too-distant future, one marked by a world of ubiquitous
computing that “will change the way we think about IT.†Such was the
vision outlined by Dr. Jan Rabaey of the University of California at
Berkeley in a keynote address delivered at last week’s CDNLive!
Silicon Valley, the latest in Cadence Design Systems’ worldwide series
of user conferences.
Read the
full article...
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Visions of the Future (Part 2): Look East,
Electronics Industry, Look East
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Just when you think the party’s over for the electronics industry,
along comes another prediction for a rosy growth-filled future. This
one, however, came fueled by a compelling blizzard of statistics showing
that the industry must look to the emerging, and technology-hungry,
societies of the Pacific Rim and Asia. So went a keynote address from
Walden C. “Wally†Rhines, CEO of Mentor Graphics Corp., at last
week’s EDA Tech Forum in Santa Clara.
Read the
full article...
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Process Design Kit Targets Analog/Mixed-Signal
Products
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The latest revision of austriamicrosystems’ analog/mixed signal
high performance process design kit (“HIT-Kitâ€) is now available for
its 0.35-μm CMOS, high-voltage CMOS, and SiGe-BiCMOS specialty
technologies. Based on the latest version of Cadence’s Virtuoso custom
design platform (IC 6.1 release), the HIT-Kit v4.0 is said to
significantly improve time to market for products in the
analog/mixed-signal arena. The comprehensive design kit includes highly
accurate simulation models and flexible Pcells.
Read the
full article...
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Open Verification Methodology Sprouts
Hierarchical Guidelines
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The latest version of the Open Verification Methodology (OVM)
provides a new OVM User Guide, which contains step-by-step guidelines to
help users develop reusable, interoperable verification IP and
hierarchical environments to facilitate plug-and-play verification.
Spearheaded by Mentor Graphics Corp. and Cadence Design Systems, the
open-source OVM 2.0 extends the sequential stimulus mechanism in the OVM
with transaction-level modeling (TLM) interfaces to improve the
modularity and reuse of stimulus sequences.
Read the
full article...
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electronica 2008 - 11-14 Nov - Munich, Germany
As the international trade show for the electronics industry,
electronica reveals the complete spectrum of all areas - in all of its
variety, breadth and depth. Showing components, systems, applications
and technologies in their relevant contexts reflects the great
innovative power of electronics. Components, systems, applications and
technologies - get the whole picture at electronica 2008.
Click here to register now.
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Thanks to new processors, digital
video is appearing everywhere. How do you feel about its
ubiquity?
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- It's great! The applications are endless, from security to
entertainment.
- Some video can be convenient, but other applications seem
superfluous.
- It's awful! We already suffer from information overload
Click here to
take the poll. Remember to scroll down. The poll is at the bottom of the
page.
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ESC Boston – The Embedded industry’s fall tradition
October 26-30, 2008
Hynes Convention Center – Boston, MA
ESC Boston continues to draw more system architects and design engineers
year after year. It’s the fastest-growing embedded event in the world,
with a 21% attendance increase in 2007 — over 3,600 attendees from 36
countries. This year, more than 150 exhibitors will showcase their
innovative new products and services to thousands of OEM
representatives, industry analysts, and media.
Register today! Use Priority Code: PEN01
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