VLSI
What Users Would Change About This Blog!
The best part about this survey is that you get to see what users are looking for, whats bothering them that they would…
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Layoff Watch!
Announced Worldwide Layoffs As of 30th January 2009 Infineon - 3000 Qimonda - 3000 (Bankrupt: 23 Jan 09) Renesas -…
Investments
Intel will invest through recession!
Intel will continue to invest in products and technologies even though it sees that a U.S.financial meltdown is likely …
Wireless
10 Gbps Wireless
Engineers at Battelle have come up with a way to send data through the air at 10 Gigabits per second using point-to-po…
Questions
VLSI Blogs
Based on the content and articles in this blog do you really think that this blog should be categorized under VLSI or A…
Links
How to get a free link to your ASIC or VLSI Blog?
This is how you can get a free link to your blog. If you are not already a member of the ASIC/VLSI/Digital Electronics …
Forecats
Semiconductor forecast looks grim!
According to IC insights , the maket forecast looks grim for 2008 total worldwide IC market growth, noting shrinking de…
XVGA
Simple XVGA (1024x768) Controller in Verilog
module xvga(clk,hcount,vcount,hsync,vsync); input clk; // 64.8 Mhz output [10:0] hcount; output [9:0] vcount; …
References
Coaching Excellence in IC Design Teams: Why Can't we get Rid of that Thorn in our Process?
Coaching Excellence in IC Design Teams: Why Can't we get Rid of that Thorn in our Process? Commenting on this artic…
Jobs
Invitation to Freshers!
Infineon India - Bangalore is planning for a Fresher's Event in September 08 & thereby invites CVs of friends w…
Interview Questions
VLSI Interview Questions
One day you are strolling the hallways in search of inspiration, when you bump into a person from the marketing departm…
Interview Questions
Digital Design Interview Questions
Your task is to do the power analysis for a circuit that should send out a one-clock-cycle pulse once every 16 clock cy…
Interview Questions
Interview Question
Your manager has given you the task of implementing the following pseudo code in an FPGA: if is_odd(a + d) { p = (a +…
Verilog
Digital "Greatest Common Divisor (GCD)" - Euclid’s algorithm
Updated on 25th Jan 2022!! The Euclidean algorithm is a method for finding the greatest common divisor (GCD) of two or …
Verilog
Digital "Square root" Computation of a number
By Popular Demand! module sqrt (clk,data,start,answer,done); input clk,start; input [7:0] data; output [3:0] answer;…
Verilog
Verilog - Multiplication Gotcha, did you ever know?!
Did you know this basic gotcha of verilog :-) ? You can use the "*" operator to multiply two numbers: wire […
Richard Feynman
Feynman's Unsolved Puzzle?
"In The Feynman Lectures on Computation , Richard Feynman poses an interesting little puzzle involving the synchr…
Interview Questions
Interview Question - Transformed!
This is a famous interview question just that it has got a makeover! Question: Construct a "divisible-by-3"…
Interview Questions
Interview Question!
Hello All: In fact it has been a long time since we had posted any sort of interview questions or puzzles and so here …
Career
Career Guidance @ The Digital ELectronics Blog
Hello & Best wishes! Due to overwhelming responses to this Blog and successful placement of 500+ Freshers and exper…
VLSI Conference
VLSI Conference 2008 - Hyderabad, India
Did you know that you can access the complete conference CD including sessions and papers. Please visit http://confe…
IEEE
IEEE ComSoc Complimentary online tutorials
Two Complimentary Online Tutorials Available Now… IEEE Communications Society is pleased to offer two free online tut…
mentor graphics
Your take on the Cadence-Mentor hostile takeover bid
---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: < jcooley@zeroskew.com > Date: Wed, Jun 18, 2008 at 6:02 PM Subjec…
ECO
Tool to help automate ECO creation
[Via John's Semi-Blog ] Without too much fanfare, Cadence has introduced a tool to help automate ECO creation: Cade…
Homemade VoIP Network Over Wi-Fi Routers
A blogger on The Tech Report details his research and testing of wireless voice communication options for remote mount…
Swallow this! - Infineon in takeover rumor by Samsung or Intel
[ EETimes ] has an article on rumors that Samsung and possibly Intel might be interested in taking over Infineon. If y…
Conferences
Wiretap -- The Troublemaker's Panel (DVcon)
[Via deepchip] This year's Troublemaker's Panel discussed Mike Santarini, VC's, DataQuest, Nvidea, real est…
VLIW
Tilera Releases 64-Way Chip Dev Tools
Tilera has released a Linux-based development kit for their 64-core system on a chip. The Tile64 is based on a proprie…
News
Template related issues
All issues have been fixed. Recommended Browser's: Firefox 2 or higher IE 7 or higher The Team, The Digital Electro…
Processors
Intel's 6-core Dunnington CPU coming this year, Nehalem gets official
Quad-core shmod-core Intel, we need 6 cores or more to keep our uh, web browsers snappy. While you're at it, how ab…
WiFi
Intel touts long-distance WiFi for rural areas
While some companies are busy exploring other options for bringing wireless connectivity to rural areas, Intel's ap…
Interview Questions
Top 50 Interview Questions on CPU Architecture
What is the difference between a microprocessor and a microcontroller? What are the different components of a CPU, and …
WiMAX
Tata rolls out "world's largest" commercial WiMAX network in India
It seems as if Tata Communications is out to one-up BSNL -- or at least claim its share of the limelight, anyway. More …
News
3G iPhone rumored to be Infineon-powered, hitting "mid-year"
Hold the presses: Apple may be releasing a new iPhone this year... with 3G! Crazy, we know. The latest iteration of thi…
Technology
Intel's 6-core Xeon and Nehalem CPU info leaked
Intel's had its new processor plans slipped out to the public thanks to Sun, according to DailyTech. Details on th…
FMEA
FMEA - Failure Mode and Effects Analysis - Part 1
Failure Mode and Effects Analysis (FMEA) : A procedure for analysis of potential failure modes within a system for the …
Breakthrough
Low Voltage Is Key To Energy-Efficient Chip - Part II
I have managed to gather a real doc on the recently announced low voltage chip... These are some of the important detai…
TI
Mobile TV heats up with Broadcom's 65-nm SOC
The official news is out! Broadcom has just announced a monolithic digital CMOS mobile TV receiver/demodulator, that re…
TI
TI reveals details of 45-nm process
Rumors had been rampant for the past 3 months or so that TI had stopped development on the 45 nm node and moved on to 4…
Breakthrough
Low Voltage Is Key To Energy-Efficient Chip
News in from the International Solid State Circuits Conference in San Francisco of a new energy-efficient chip designe…
DAC 2008
The Digital Electronics Blog at Design Automation Conference (DAC)
The Design Automation Conference (DAC) website has listed this Blog in the Industry Blogs Section on the home page. Th…
Good Technology Business Blogs
Sramana Mitra 's Take on Technology Business Blogs... TechCrunch : TechCrunch reports on new technology companies …
Seminars
The Future of High Performance Memory!
Rambus India Design Seminars The Future of High Performance Memory Designs 21 February 2008 | The Leela Palac…
DesignCon 2008
DesignCon 2008
Your Design Connection Awaits! DesignCon attracts engineering professionals from various levels and disciplines and r…
TAU 2008
TAU 2008
ACM/IEEE International Workshop on Timing Issues in the Specification and Synthesis of Digital Systems (TAU Workshop) w…
DAC 2008
ACM/EDAC/IEEE Design Automation Conference 2008
The Design Automation Conference (DAC) is the premier event for the design of electronic circuits and systems, and for …
OVM Available Now!!
The OVM is now available for download from the new OVM website . The OVM is based on the IEEE 1800 SystemVerilog stand…
VHDL Coding Guidelines
HDL Coding Guidelines - Part 7
Hints Avoid more package references than needed Keep all objects and subprograms in the nearest possible scope Keep loc…
VHDL Coding Guidelines
HDL Coding Guidelines - Part 6
To Avoid common Warnings Store each VHDL unit into a separate file except package header and body Signal assignments fo…