Feb 08, 2012
Freescale has finally taken off the wrapping around the 12-core, 24-thread T4240 QorIQ processor with hardware power scheduling support.
Feb 07, 2012
Technology Editor Bill Wong takes a hands-on look at SuperMicro's AS-4022G-6F A+ Server that runs a pair of AMD 16-core, Opteron 6000 Series.
Accurate thermal management depends on accurate simulation models. Mentor Graphics' thermal characterization and analysis methodology builds thermal models of IC packages and LEDs for use in FloTHERM thermal simulations.
Reliability and performance meet demand for speed, flexibility and intelligence in today’s connector technology.
Cavium's OCTEON III is built around 48 MIPS64 cores along with major hardware accelerators to handle everything from RAID to packet processing.
PCI Express has been dominant in PCs and servers but some embedded areas have been slower to adopt it until now.
Remember when people feared losing their jobs to computers? Now the tables are turned, says Magma's Patrick Groeneveld, and the automation techniques used in EDA are actually creating jobs.
When your bench supply's capacitors are all charged up with nowhere for that charge to go, an active down-programmer is a handy technique that brings rise and fall times back into a viable range.
Electronic Design reports from the Applied Power Electronics Conference (APEC) in Orlando, FL with slideshows, videos, and updates on the latest in power electronics.
EPC has published a textbook on the engineering behind GaN FETs. Here are some closeups.