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Platform-level electrical systems development for aerospace

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Successful Adoption of DFM

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Neon lamps and photoconductors illuminate logic

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PowerSoC solves switch-mode DCDC noise and space issues

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That Was Tricky: The logic analyzer versus a DVM

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How to go about selecting a microcontroller

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Top 10 Tips for Success with Formal Analysis – Part 2

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Book excerpt – The art of hardware architecture, part 4

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Comparing FMCs with PMCs/XMCs for harsh environments (Part 2)

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Location Is Everything: Improving Performance with Interactive LDE Estimation

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Comparing FMCs with PMCs/XMCs for harsh environments (Part 1)

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How to build a microcontroller-based functional tester

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Book excerpt – The art of hardware architecture, part 3

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The Fast Track to 3D-IC Testing

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Book excerpt – The art of hardware architecture, part 2

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Technical Papers

Routing Technology for Advanced-Node IC Designs

Mechatronic System Modeling and Simulation Techniques

Using 10-Gbps Transceivers in 40G/100G Applications

An Automated Physical Design Flow Architecture

Embedded System Power Consumption: A Software or Hardware Issue?

Courses and Webinars

Power Architecture Solutions for Industrial Control

Reliability and Qualification of MTP NVM IP from Commercial to Automotive Applications

Fundamentals of Measurement

Fundamentals of USB

Fundamentals of Analog Verification

Teardowns

Wide Bluetooth, Wi-Fi adoption seen in handsets

Inside Xbox 360's Kinect controller

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Reference Designs

Quantenna debuts 802.11n 4x4 MIMO wireless video bridge ref design

Quantenna Communications Inc. has debuted a complete reference design based on its QHS600 IEEE 802.11n wireless LAN (WLAN) 4x4 multiple input, multiple output (MIMO) chipset.
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Lattice adds over 90 reference designs for PLDs

Lattice Semiconductor Corp. has released more than 90 reference designs optimized for the MachXO and ispMACH 4000ZE PLDs.
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Products

µClinux for ARM Cortex-M3

Cree provides SPICE models for SiC power devices

FPGA-based dual motor control kit from Microsemi and TRINAMIC

Microchip and Digilent unveil PIC32-based Cerebot development boards

Demodulation software tests next generation Wi-Fi

Digital Blocks expands its video signal and image processing IP core family

QuickLogic introduces Background Color Compensator (BCC) technology for Pico Projectors

Analog Devices’ FMC boards support Xilinx’s Targeted Design Platforms

Samplify Systems announces APAX application acceleration technology

Xilinx announces ISE Design Suite 13.4

Commentary

What would you do for an iPad2?

Brian Bailey

TLMCentral is kicking into high gear with competitions to spur donation of Open Source models into the community. Are you up for the challenge…

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Opinion: The yin and yang of designing big chips

Patrick Groeneveld

Patrick Groeneveld is this year's chair for DAC. In this opinion piece he talks about value in synthesis and analysis tools...

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Perhaps I could be even bolder and suggest that verification is much like the drug industry. Even if ...

Things that go “meep” in the night

Clive Maxfield

I just had a very unsatisfactory night’s sleep, because something kept on going “meep” and I couldn’t track it down…

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I once worked on a project refitting a shop. The Project manager had a PC with a screen saver that ...

Upcoming Conferences: calls and more – Feb 9th

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Conference related information, calls for papers, contributions and participation are all found here…

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Ten things I want to do before I die…

Clive Maxfield

I don’t want to sound maudlin, but every now and then as one gets older, thoughts of mortality do tend to cross one’s mind…

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EDA/IP Weekly Roundup – Feb 8th

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Element14, Verific, Coventor, Silicon Frontline, Cadence, Breker and Elliptic made the lineup today. See here for their news…

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Why is DesignCon important for IC designers?

Brian Bailey

Not one, but two videos of your editor speaking at DesignCon or a variety of subjects including the impact that board design has on chip design…

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