Processor-based Design
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The significance of poles and zerosKevin C Craig, PhD, April 19, 2012Emulate Wilbur Wright and learn the significance of poles and zeros. More
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Design calculations for robust I2C communicationsChris Parris, Senior Applications Engineer and Jonathan Dillon, Senior Applications Engineer, Memory Products Division, Microchip Technology Inc., April 18, 2012The I2C bus topology relies on correctly sized resistance pull-ups for reliable, robust communications. Getting these values wrong can lead to erroneous bus conditions and transmission errors caused by noise or changes in temperature and operating voltages, and by variations between devices. More
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Samplify solutions transform processing paradigms at DESIGN West 2012Steve Taranovich, Senior Technical Editor, April 12, 2012Samplify Systems Inc, a provider of IP solutions, improves multicore I/O bottlenecks/cloud computing (heading off the multicore memory wall), consumer electronics, mobile devices, and supercomputer capacity. More
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Microchip PIC16F(LF)178X brings integrated analog and digital to 8-bit microcontrollersPatrick Mannion, Director of Content, March 29, 2012Microchip used the recent DESIGN West conference in San Jose to announce the expansion of its 8-bit PIC16F(LF)178X enhanced midrange core microcontroller family. More
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Slideshow: DESIGN West 2012 photosEDN staff, March 28, 2012View a slideshow of the activities engineers experienced at DESIGN West 2012. These included brain-teasers, artistic renderings, in-booth popular seminars, impressive demos, events, and keynotes.
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ACE Awards 2012: Celebrating excellence in engineeringEDN staff, March 27, 2012The UBM Electronics ACE (Annual Creativity in Electronics) Awards combine EDN's Innovation Awards and EE Times' ACE Awards and are among the few chances for us to honor the best of the best individuals, teams, teachers, mentors, innovators, products, technology, and creativity that propel our industry forward. More
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ACE AWARDS ULTIMATE PRODUCTS of 2011Rich Pell, Executive Editor, March 27, 2012The ACE Awards program is an opportunity to recognize the technologies that have made a difference in the way we work, live and play. Nothing exemplifies this more than the winners of this year's ACE Awards for Ultimate Products of the Year. More
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ACE AWARDS MENTOR OF THE YEAR: Stewart ChristieSuzanne Deffree, Managing Editor, Online, March 27, 2012Christie is the first recipient of the Mentor of the Year Award, which made its premier at this year's ACE Awards ceremony. The award came about in recognition of those engineers and executives who take action to inspire and encourage the STEM (science/technology/engineering/math) leadership of tomorrow. More
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ACE AWARDS DESIGN TEAM OF THE YEAR: Tilera's Tile-architecture design teamPatrick Mannion, Director of Content, March 27, 2012The Design Team of the Year Award goes to a group of innovators whose collaborative efforts made a significant contribution to the evolution of technology and whose project-management abilities are creative, efficient, and inspiring. More
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Adapteva close to sampling 28-nm, 64-core coprocessorPeter Clarke, EE Times, March 19, 2012Adapteva, a small and lean fabless startup that has developed a series of multicore floating-point processors, claims its latest device, a 28-nm 64-core processor is close to sampling. More
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Circuits without wiresKevin C Craig, PhD, March 15, 2012Understanding magnetic circuits illuminates electromechanical devices. More
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TI tips partnership to take OMAP into roboticsPeter Clarke, EE Times, March 12, 2012Texas Instruments has announced a partnership with iRobot Corp to develop robotics technology based on the TI OMAP application processors. More
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TI, Nvidia tied for second in tablet CPUsEE Times staff, March 7, 2012Apple dominated the market for applications processors in tablets last year with Texas Instruments and Nvidia in a near tie for second place, according to a new market research report from Strategy Analytics. More
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Dialog licenses Cortex-M0, moves ARM into PMICsPeter Clarke, EE Times, March 7, 2012Dialog Semiconductor plc has licensed the Cortex-M0 microcontroller core from ARM Holdings plc for use in future mixed-signal power management ICs. More
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Intel rolls first processor optimized for datacentersR Colin Johnson, EE Times, March 6, 2012Intel says it has designed its first processor built from the ground up for the "green" datacenters of the future, claiming a 70% increase in performance for the same energy consumption. More
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Addressing critical-area analysis and memory redundancySimon Favre, Mentor Graphics, March 1, 2012How susceptible is your design to random defects, and which areas of the layout could benefit from modifications that would provide the greatest positive effect on overall yield? More
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Microcontroller drives piezoelectric buzzer at high voltageMehmet Efe Ozbek, PhD, Atilim University, Ankara, Turkey, March 1, 2012Drive the buzzer directly from the μC’s I/O pins. More
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Getting around multicore walls: The roads less traveledLoring Wirbel and Lou Covey, New Tech Press, February 23, 2012The processor industry has been running pell mell down the road of multicore design. But a funny thing happened on the way to the personal super computer. It didn't work. More
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Intel gives deeper look into Ivy BridgeRick Merritt, EE Times, February 21, 2012The first Ivy Bridge chip targets a range of desktop, notebook, embedded, and single-socket server systems with up to 8 Mbytes cache. More
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CEVA launches new low-power DSP cores for the broadest comms standardsJunko Yoshida, EE Times, February 21, 2012CEVA Inc is announcing a new family of "universal advanced communications engines," called CEVA-XC4000. More
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