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A Lifecycle Approach to Quality Management
Success in ever more competitive worldwide marketplaces demands continually smarter products and systems, which in turn…
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Designing Low Power, Multi-Primary Technology for Mobile Phone Displays
Displays have always been a major power consumer in mobile devices. In the past, one easy way to keep power demands in …
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Major Benefits of IEEE-1149.7(Compact JTAG)
This paper provides a summary of the features and benefits from the new IEEE-1149.7 specification commonly referred to…
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Checklist for Success with Multicore
The benefits of multicore are numerous, but to realize them you must avoid the common pitfalls by planning carefully an…
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Fast, Easy, and Flexible Power for System Designers
Systems designers are having a difficult time developing power subsystems that supply all of their system's power n…
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Improve Project Success with Better Information
Are we on target? Are we within budget? Are my projects contributing effectively to my operational objectives? How well…
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Challenges for the 28nm half node: Is the optical shrink dead?
A half-node process has been routinely used to deliver incremental improvements in process control and hardware availab…
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Debug and Validation of High Performance Mixed Signal Designs
Modern embedded and computing systems have become progressively more powerful by incorporating high-speed buses, indust…
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Patents database: An easy and cost effective way to perform reverse engineering for chip designers
Reverse engineering is a very common practice in semiconductor business. Companies will barely admit doing it but every…
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Application Specific IP
One of the major barriers for Semiconductor IP commercialization is to provide evidence for an IP's quality. A comm…
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Boosting RTL Verification with High-Level Synthesis
Instead of prolonging the painful process of finding bugs in RTL code, the design flow needs to be geared toward creati…
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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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Getting Started with Android Development for Embedded Systems
Android is an open source platform built by Google that includes an operating system, middleware, and applications for …
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Phase-locked loops (PLLs) Demystified
Over the past decade, Phase-Locked Loops (PLLs) have become an integral part of the modern ASIC design. PLLs provide th…
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Diagnosing clock domain crossing errors in FPGAs
Clock domain crossing (CDC) errors in FPGAs are elusive, and locating them often requires good detective work and smart…
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Fantastic failures
Most failures are not single-point; generally a single event does not entirely account for the failure. Often multiple …
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The Art of Debugging: Make it Fail
"Debugging" is the most valuable engineering skills, not taught in any formal setting, and often learned the …
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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 &…
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Data Management for Hardware Design Teams
Hardware design data and design flows present unique requirements that are not met by software configuration management…