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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…
White Papers
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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Best Practices for Reducing Risk through Environmental Compliance Data Collection
Complying with the variety of environmental regulations has become a challenging task for electronics OEMs (Original Eq…
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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…
Verification
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 …