papers
Digital Signal Processing: A Practical Guide
This book is intended for those who work in or provide components for industries that use digital signal processing (DS…
Verification
The Art of Debugging: Make it Fail
"Debugging" is the most valuable engineering skills, not taught in any formal setting, and often learned the …
TechOnline
Single Chip Coherent Multiprocessing
Many embedded system-on-a-chip (SoC) designs make use of multiple processors, but do so in an application-specific or &…
TechOnline
Data Management for Hardware Design Teams
Hardware design data and design flows present unique requirements that are not met by software configuration management…
Verification
e Verification language is alive and well
According to Mitch Weaver, corporate vice president for front-end verification at Cadence, the e verification language…
Smart Phones
Broadcom's smartphone on a chip
Broadcom recently announced a single-chip HSUPA baseband processor that integrates key 3G mobile technologies and will…
Theorem proving
Formal Verification: Theorem proving
How many times in the course of a project have you heard of the term Formal Verification? This relatively short on arti…
Verification
Toyota Prius 2005: An Early Warning About Verification
In this article Richard Goering talks about a software bug in Toyota Prius 2005 and after 5 years even after a through…
Verification
Motivation: What else can we talk about verification?
Many of you already know that verification efforts are as or more important as the design efforts themselves. They cann…
Verification
Verification Sessions at DVcon 2010
Featured Tutorial: Step-By-Step Guide to Advanced Verification Tutorial!, DVcon Exhibits and Product Demos.., DVCon Pap…
Verification
Clock-Domain Crossing Verification Module
This Mentor's Verification Academy module directly addresses CDC issues by introducing a set of steps for advancing…
Modelsim
ModelSim PE Student Edition - Free HDL Simulation
Mode details about Free Simulators are here -> https://blog.digitalelectronics.co.in/2023/03/free-hdl-simulators.ht…
Verification
Questa SV/AFV: Verification Methodology Kits
Mentor Graphics provides the Methodology kit examples in open source form under the Apache-2.0 license. These kits are…
SupportNet
Questa Compatibility Matrix: Versions of Questa SV/AFV that work with different versions of other Mentor and open-source verification products
This matrix illustrates (SupportNet access needed) the version compatibility between Questa SV/AFV and different versio…
DVclub
Design Verification Club (DVclub)
DVClub is a very interesting organization. With chapters in Austin, Bangalore, Boston, Dallas, Research Triangle Park,…
Sponsored
Delivering synthesizable verification IP for testbences
Case Study:SystemVerilog VMM vs. BSV for an Ethernet MAC test bench. High-level verification languages and environment…
Toyota
Toyota's woes: More technology, more complexity
Today, cars can have as many as 70 electronic control units, or ECUs, based on microcontrollers (sometimes generically …
Latch
Are latches really bad for a design?
It is not completely correct to say that we have to avoid latches in our designs. In one of our recent projects we went…
PA semi
iPad and the A4 chip
By now you would have digested enough info about iPad from all the overflowing blogs and sites that are covering Apple…
Interview Questions
Interview Question on CPU design
A CPU has a memory unit with 32-bit instructions and a register file with 32 registers. The instruction set consists of…
Interview Questions
Interview Question
Draw the circuit diagram for barrel-shifter that can shift 3 bits in either direction. The shifter should take 3 bits a…
Tips and Tricks
Modelsim Tips & Tricks
In this article we will see how to create a simple Tcl script that tests for certain values on a signal and then adds b…
VIP
The world of HVLs and VIPs
Over the last decade functional verification of ASIC systems has witnessed a paradigm shift in verification methodologi…
Verification Plan
Verification Plan
An effective verification plan encompasses a detailed description of the complete hierachical verification methodology …
Size. Transistor Size
Single-atom transistor discovered
Researchers from Helsinki University of Technology (Finland), University of New South Wales (Australia), and University…
Verification
Dealing with clock jitter in DDR2/DDR3 based designs
For the past couple of days i have been part of a design that interfaces a DDR/DDR2 memory. But lately after a recent p…
Soft Skills
Importance of soft skills
The semiconductor industry in general demands two special skills in every engineer. One of these skills is more trivial…
VLSI Conference
VLSID 2010 Conference (Bangalore): Registrations open!
VLSID 2010, Asia’s premier technical conference on VLSI design, EDA and embedded systems will be held at NIMHANS Conven…
Negative Feedback
When people give negative feedback about you?
For the most part the primary reaction is to defend yourself with a cause or justification or to just outrightly acknow…
Open-Source
Fedora Electronics Lab
Fedora Electronic Lab (FEL) comes to fix one big problem in the opensource community. The problem is : there is no on…
Missing
Did not find what you are looking for?
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NOR Flash
Flash Memories - Types
Although all flash memories use the same basic storage cell, there are a number of ways in which the cells can be inter…
Serial Flash
Flash Memories - Introduction
Flash memory is a type of electronic memory increasingly used in a wide range of communications, consumer, computer and…
Neural Networks
Researchers expand clinical study of brain implant
We are excited to see that the BrainGate Neural Interface System is moving to phase-II clinical testing . BrainGate is…
VLSI Technology Symposium
Hot papers at 2009 VLSI Technology Symposium
Hot papers from this year's VLSI Technology Symposium include three nonvolatile memory advancements: Toshiba' …
Low Cost Phones
Low-cost phones, emerging markets to drive handsets sector
With developed markets saturated and shifting mostly high-end handsets, and mid tier phone providers continuing to stru…
Smart Phones
Intel Eyes Smartphone Chip Market
Intel has been rather successful at carving out a larger percentage of the netbook market with their low power Atom pro…
Nokia
Nokia Developing Wireless, Accessory-Free Ambient Charging
Engineers at Nokia have hatched a plan to for a system that'll charge phones using nothing more than ambient electr…
Moore's Law
Moore's Law: 43 Years and counting
In 1965, Gordon Moore sat down to pen his article for a Electronics Magazine and this is when he saw some fundamental d…
Computer Architecture
Who are the Computer Architects?
The author ( Mark Smotherman, Associate Professor, School of Computing, Clemson University ) makes an effort to list th…
Video Lectures
Free Video Lectures
A Video Lecture from UC Berkeley on Analog-Digital Interfaces! Analysis and Design of VLSI Analog-Digital Interface Int…
Webinars
Sponsored Post: SpyGlass 4.2.0 Webinar from ATRENTA
In this SpyGlass(R) webinar, Atrenta experts will take you through the highlights of the new release and cover the foll…
Websites
Virtual Component Websites and Software
Virtual Component Exchange (VCX) is a web-based, regulated trading exchange for semiconductor virtual components or int…
FPGA
OpenFPGA
OpenFPGA is an emerging effort to foster and accelerate the adoption and incorporation of reconfigurable computing bas…
Tools
Free Chip Estimation Tool
A free design automation tool for chip estimation has been developed by Giga Scale IC, Inc. The tool named "InCyt…
FPGA
Teaching Embedded Systems using ARM and FPGAs
Prof. Saeid Nooshabadi of the University of New South Wales in Sydney, Australia, has an excellent website describin…
Writing
Guides for Better Writing and Presentations and References
Guide to Better Writing Guide to Better Presentations Check-list for Writing Examples of IEEE References (pdf) IEEE-CS …
Supercomputers
Top 500 Supercomputers
A list of the Top 500 performing supercomputers is available at: Top 500 . Since 1993, the list has been updated twice …