A Lifecycle Approach to Quality Management
Success in ever more competitive worldwide marketplaces demands continually smarter products and systems, which in turn…
Success in ever more competitive worldwide marketplaces demands continually smarter products and systems, which in turn…
Displays have always been a major power consumer in mobile devices. In the past, one easy way to keep power demands in …
This paper provides a summary of the features and benefits from the new IEEE-1149.7 specification commonly referred to…
The benefits of multicore are numerous, but to realize them you must avoid the common pitfalls by planning carefully an…
Systems designers are having a difficult time developing power subsystems that supply all of their system's power n…
Are we on target? Are we within budget? Are my projects contributing effectively to my operational objectives? How well…
A half-node process has been routinely used to deliver incremental improvements in process control and hardware availab…
Modern embedded and computing systems have become progressively more powerful by incorporating high-speed buses, indust…
Reverse engineering is a very common practice in semiconductor business. Companies will barely admit doing it but every…
One of the major barriers for Semiconductor IP commercialization is to provide evidence for an IP's quality. A comm…
Instead of prolonging the painful process of finding bugs in RTL code, the design flow needs to be geared toward creati…
DRAM (Dynamic Random Access Memory) is attractive to designers because it provides a broad range of performance and is …
Android is an open source platform built by Google that includes an operating system, middleware, and applications for …
Over the past decade, Phase-Locked Loops (PLLs) have become an integral part of the modern ASIC design. PLLs provide th…
Clock domain crossing (CDC) errors in FPGAs are elusive, and locating them often requires good detective work and smart…
Most failures are not single-point; generally a single event does not entirely account for the failure. Often multiple …
"Debugging" is the most valuable engineering skills, not taught in any formal setting, and often learned the …
Many embedded system-on-a-chip (SoC) designs make use of multiple processors, but do so in an application-specific or &…
Hardware design data and design flows present unique requirements that are not met by software configuration management…