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Open-Source
Developing Silicon IP with Open Source Tools
The electronic design automation (EDA) tool industry is big business, and commercial licenses are extremely expensive. …
Texas Instruments(TI)
Texas Instruments(TI) to buy National Semiconductor for $6.5 billion
The Wall Street Journal is reporting that TI intends to buy National Semiconductor for $6.5 billion, $25/share. These …
Wireless
Study gives 4G data performance high marks
Handsets operating on 4G cellular networks offer significant improvement in data transfer performance compared to their…
ZTE
ZTE claims 10-Tbps data transmission record
Chinese telecommunications equipment company ZTE Corp. claims to have broken the world record for a single-channel data…
Passion
Six ways to manage a side hustle without going insane
A side hustle is anything you are doing outside of your full-time job (like building a business or a blog around someth…
UK
U.K. readies for auction of 4G spectrum
Ofcom, the U.K. government's regulatory body for telecommunications, has announced plans for an auction of radio sp…
Software
Accelerate product development through codevelopment of Hardware and Software
Rising product complexity and intense market pressures present major challenges to designers of electronic systems. To …
Terra Barrier
Moisture Barriers for Flexible Electronics
Defects on plastic substrates such as pinholes, cracks and grain boundaries cause a 'pore effect', where oxygen…
WebCasts
Best known modelling practices for gigabit serial design - Live Webcast
This presentation will go over some of the common issues encountered when setting up performing circuit simulation of h…
Sysdsoft
Intel's new 4G acquisition is Sysdsoft
Intel has made a purchase to bolster its 4G wireless platform, buying Egypt-based Sysdsoft, a maker of 4G software stac…
Printing
Printed Electronics - Europe is Different
Printed electronics is one of the most important new enabling technologies. It will have a major impact on most busines…
Power Analysis
Interview Question on Power Analysis
Your task is to do power analysis for a circuit that sends out a one-clock-cycle pulse on the done signal once every 16…
CRC
Cyclic Redundancy Checking (CRC) - Part 2
Modulo two arithmetic is simple single-bit binary arithmetic with all carries or borrows ignored. Each digit is conside…
Cyclic Redundancy Check
Cyclic Redundancy Checking (CRC) - Part 1
Error detection is an important part of communication systems when there is a chance of data getting corrupted. Whether…
Moorestown
Intel announces first Multistandard GSM Baseband chip and the much awaited Medfield processor
Intel has started production of its Medfield Application processor for smartphones and is sending samples to phone manu…
Wireless
Stoke Technical Seminar Series - Wireless
If you live in Bangalore, India this might be of interest to you. Stoke Technical Seminar Series focus on 3G Mobile D…
Nvidia
Intel, Nvidia ends legal battle with $1.5 billion cross-licensing deal
Intel and Nvidia announced Monday they are dropping their respective lawsuits with the signing of a six-year agreement …
Sub-Atom
Intel looks At Creating A ‘Sub-Atom’ Chip Out Of India, renews focus on affordable PCs
Praveen Vishakantaiah, president of Intel India, said one innovation in the area of frugal engineering could soon be in…
Smart Phones
Intel India labs will focus on parallel computing
Intel dominates the business of PC processors. But as consumers shift increasingly to tablets and smartphones, the comp…
Tensilica
10 Reasons to Customize a Processor Core
There are plenty of really good, proven processor cores on the market today. But if you have more than simple control t…
Salary Survey
2010 EE Times Global Salary and Opinion Survey
The average base salary among the North American engineers surveyed totaled just over $100,000; annual compensation, in…
Femtocell
Broadcom buys femtocell chip maker
Femtocells are small, low power cellular base stations that extend coverage indoors where signals are weak. Broadcom Co…
Signs
Five good, five bad signs for IC market
We are in the fourth quarter and the outlook is cloudy for the rest of 2010 and heading into 2011. Here are some good …
GlobalFoundries
GlobalFoundries tech park in trouble?
A New York state agency plans to take over a technology park that houses the new 300-mm fab owned by U.S. silicon foun…
Intel
Is Intel prepping up for 450mm wafer sizes?
Is Intel preparing to push the issue with regard to its desire to move to 450-mm wafer sizes? One analyst thinks so . W…
Tech Talk
Tech Talk - The Bleeding Edge (Oracle India, Sun Microsystems BU)
Last week i was invited to a Tech Talk organized by Oracle India (Sun Microsystems BU). The title of the talk was "…
Intel
Infineon takes over LTE specialist "Blue Wonder"
Infineon's Wireless Solutions unit has been working together with the Dresden design house "Blue Wonder" …
Perspectives
Digital systems engineering and perspectives on chip design
Today we are in the age of Digital Convergence seeing a major change in the way digital electronics systems are designe…
Wireless
Libelium opens the new ‘kitchen’ for electronics enthusiasts
Hardware design specialist Libelium opens a new community site for electronics enthusiasts offering a wide range of tut…
Wireless
Video review of the OpenPICUS first Webserver application
In march we had an article covering the Italian project made to fill the gap between Embedded Low Cost and Wireless. T…
Verification
Peer code review of RTL, Test bench, Test Cases for 100% Verification closure
The topic of "peer code review" is a widely discussed topic in the context of design verification. I remember…
Intel
Infineon wireless unit to be a "seperate legal entity"?
From the open forum that happened at Infineon today it was made clear that the carved out wireless division will be a s…
Video Lectures
IIT Video Lectures Available for all on YouTube
The Indian Institute of Science (IISc) and IITs, the premier engineering colleges of India, have earlier joined hands t…
Lighting
Join the YES campaign of "Just One Light" initiative
Say YES for changing ONE light to LED at home. Get your organization to say YES to change ONE light per employee to LED…
Intel
Intel buys Infineon wireless
As per the management email sent to Infineon employees this morning, Infineon and Intel have signed the contracts relat…
Intel
Intel's acquisition of Infineon's wireless business
Linley Gwennap says "Making it clear that money is no object in its quest to become a major player in the smartph…
Motivational speaking
Motivational Speaker - John Foley ( Former Blue Angel)
Our company today hosted a renowned motivational speaker Mr. John Foley of Blue Angels fame. The title of the talk be…
Jobs
Job openings @ Infineon Technologies India Pvt Ltd
Infineon Technologies India Pvt Ltd has some openings for full time and contract positions. If you are interested in ap…
Press Release
Femtocell-enabled home energy management solution
ip.access, the leading developer of femtocell and picocell solutions, and AlertMe.com, the pioneer in home energy mana…
mentor graphics
High-Level Synthesis Blue Book
The High Level Synthesis Blue Book is a comprehensive guide for designing hardware using C++. It is targeted to RTL…
Mobile Phone
High-def iPhone 4
This new model available in black or white from June 24 has an unchanged pricing at $199 for the 16GB model and $299 fo…
SNUG
SNUG India 2010 Registrations Open
The conference schedule and the registration links can be found here . With a program that is focused on helping you de…
Physical Design
Clock network design
In this blog post, we will discuss some of the challenges and techniques involved in designing a clock network for a ve…
Physical Design
IR drop driven placement
The objective here is to explore placement techniques which can lead to reduction in IR drop. One way to do this is to …