Digital Technical Features
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By William Wong, May 16, 2012
MIPS Technologies has a new name for its product family, Aptiv. The family is divided into three performance solutions including proAptiv, interAptiv and microAptiv.
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By William Wong, May 09, 2012
Hand soldering may not be an option for production hardware but it is still actively used by hobbyists and prototypers so SparkFun wanted to see who was the fastest on the solder gun.
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By William Wong, May 09, 2012
Freescale's latest Qorivva, the multicore MPC5746M, is built around three e200z4 cores. Two can operate in lockstep.
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By Navraj Nandra, May 09, 2012
Synopsys' Navraj Nandra uses a hypothetical tablet computer to explain ways to save power in a new design through better custom-chip design: in the USB driver (and USB alternatives), colapsible power supplies,and new sleep states.
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By William Wong, April 26, 2012
Users of Xilinx’s Series 7 FPGAs will have a choice between two development tools. The Vivado Design Suite supports all of the Series 7 FPGAs and will be the development tool for all future FPGAs from Xilinx
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By William Wong, April 26, 2012
Achronix Semiconductor's latest Speedster FPGA is packed full of hard core interfaces such as PCI Express. It is based on Intel's 22nm FinFET transistors and targets high performance applications.
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By Bob Pierce, April 24, 2012
At 400 M transactions/s, ONFI 3 runs at twice the performance of the previous ONFI 2 specification. ONFI 3 also offers useful features such as on-die termination, reduced signaling voltage, warm-up cycles, and volume addressing.
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By Bill Wong, April 14, 2012
Syynopsis' Virtualizer Development Kit (VDK) generates Arm architecture virtual prototypes suchas quad core Cortex-A15s or big.LITTLE platforms. It generates targets for software developers.
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By Bill Wong, April 13, 2012
Atmel is know for its maXTouch chips but now it is moving into the the sensor side with its flexible XSense technology.
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By Bill Wong, April 12, 2012
Memoir's Renaissance tool generates multiport memory designs based on single port memory. It can provide a unified memory system for custom SoC designs.
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By Doug Daniels, April 11, 2012
LRDIMM offers a streamlined upgrade path that brings two to three times higher capacity—using less power—than existing RDIMM technology.
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By Jerry Twomey, April 09, 2012
The evolution of the transistor has seen expensive failures, billion-dollar success stories, and a fair share of missed opportunities. Digging back in the literature when single transistors were coming to market, the perspective is interesting.
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By Paul Whytock, April 03, 2012
Altera Corp. and the Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) have jointly developed the world’s first heterogeneous 3D IC test vehicle using TSMC’s Chip-on-Wafer-on-Substrate (CoWoS) integration process.
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By Paul Whytock, April 03, 2012
Moore’s Law has been an influential parameter in driving IC performance forward. For decades, the number of transistors per circuit has doubled about every two years. But is this pace about to be overtaken? Developers of the 14-nm process and FinFET technology think so.
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By Anders Guldahl, March 29, 2012
Most modern MCUs have more than one low-power mode, ranging from a light sleep or standby mode through deep-sleep to off. However, the power savings available from lower-energy sleep modes come at a price. Energy Micro's Anders Guldahl explains how to optimise a design by finding the lowest power sleep mode that provides an adequate response time.