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PCI Express-based MicroTCA Design Options
PCI Express-based MicroTCA platforms are generating more and more interest. This paper describes how small and cost-e…
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Driving Flexibility into Automotive Electronics Design
With the dramatic increase in development costs for state-of-the-art process technologies, such as next-generation aut…
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SuperSpeed Your SoCs with USB 3.0 IP
Since the introduction of the original USB standard in 1996, the USB interface has become one of the most successful c…
Virtualization
Improving I/O Virtualization Performance with PCI Express
Virtualization technology has been used in high-end servers for quite some time. The evolution of virtualization has b…
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A Cost Effective Way to Design Next Generation Communications Infrastructure Equipment
This white paper introduces a new category of programmable logic devices, the Tabula ABAX family based on Spacetime a…
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Stay in control of schedules and costs when requirements change
Organizations need to know how changing requirements in a complex system will affect development. An effective change …
Testing
At-Speed and Advanced Fault Models for Achieving High Quality Test
With the increasing clock speeds and the decreasing feature sizes found in today's nanometer designs, at-speed tes…
Verification
SDRAM Memory Systems: Architecture Overview and Design Verification
DRAM (Dynamic Random Access Memory) is attractive to designers because it provides a broad range of performance and is …
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Protect Your FPGA Against Piracy: Cost-Effective Authentication Scheme Protects IP in SRAM-Based FPGA Designs
This application note describes FPGAs (field-programmable gate arrays) and how they can hold the key functions and th…
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Restrictive Design Rules and Their Impact on 22nm Design and Physical Verification
Process variability is posing considerable challenge to the capability of lithography and manufacturing techniques, an…
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Logical and Physical Design Reuse
Electronics designs have become extremely complex and intricate, creating a need for software tools that support automa…
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Electronic System Level (ESL) Design using VaST tool
ESL design and verification is an emerging electronic design methodology that focuses on the higher abstraction level. …
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FPGA Design Methods for Fast Turn Around
Today's FPGAs are doubling in capacity every 2 years and have already surpassed the 5 million equivalent ASIC gate …
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How to Inexpensively Design an ASIC in 5 Weeks
If you have ever designed a standard cell ASIC from scratch, you probably still have the scars to show for it. Designin…
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Reduce Power, Area and Routing Congestion
This paper , using an example design, demonstrates how to meet challenging performance, latency and bandwidth goals by …
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How System-Level Trade-Offs Drive Data Converter Decisions
For both analog-to"digital converters (ADC) and digital-to"analog converters (DAC), system-level specificatio…
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Improve Product Quality and Reliability with In-System Diagnostics
Product quality and reliability are first-order design requirements for any product development. This document describ…
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How to Create a Touchless Slider for Human Interface Applications
Imagine being able to control electronics products at home and in the office, not with a direct touch but with the swee…
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LTE-Advanced Technology Introduction
Since the year 2010 commercialization of the LTE technology is taking place. At the same time further enhancements of t…
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Show Me the Next-Generation HDMI
The first part of this white paper explores the basic concepts behind HDMI, the markets it serves and its leadership ro…