EDN.com Processor-Based Design Center News, in-depth tutorial feature articles, and Design Ideas published in EDN.com's Processor-Based Design Center. en-us http://www.edn.com/community/47040/Processor-based+Design.html Copyright 2009 Reed Business Information. Subject to its Terms of Use (http://www.edn.com/index.asp?layout=page&module=terms) Sun, 08 Nov 2009 20:58:48 PDT Six-core DSP stresses energy efficiency http://www.edn.com/article/CA6705855.html?rssid=235 Texas Instruments’ new six-core TMS320C6472 DSP boasts a 3.68W power-use sweet spot when operating all six cores at 500 MHz with 80% usage. The cores support 625- and 700-MHz operation with a trade-off of energy efficiency at the 500-MHz operation point. Fri, 06 Nov 2009 00:00:00 PDT Cortex-M3 microcontroller cuts energy consumption http://www.edn.com/article/CA6704374.html?rssid=235 Thu, 29 Oct 2009 00:00:00 PDT "I'd like to buy a µ": the 36th annual microprocessor directory http://www.edn.com/article/CA6702269.html?rssid=235 Don't take a chance on your processor selections. The recently updated directory provides details on hundreds of processors and cores from more than 70 vendors. Thu, 22 Oct 2009 00:00:00 PDT Specify an external reference clock to improve SERDES performance http://www.edn.com/article/CA6703242.html?rssid=235 Various serial data standards require different clock specifications. Wed, 21 Oct 2009 00:00:00 PDT FPGA-evaluation boards come with design software http://www.edn.com/article/CA6703183.html?rssid=235 Altium’s new NanoBoard 3000 embedded-system-development platform includes a board with an FPGA chip, an IR (infrared) remote control, and a 12-month license for Altium Designer schematic and FPGA software. Wed, 21 Oct 2009 00:00:00 PDT Keep it simple, stupid, and kiss problems goodbye http://www.edn.com/article/CA6699752.html?rssid=235 Tales From The Cube: When solving a design dilemma, sometimes less is more. Thu, 08 Oct 2009 00:00:00 PDT Touch controller allows you to ignore extra touches http://www.edn.com/article/CA6699917.html?rssid=235 Atmel’s mXT224 maXTouch touchscreen controller combines the company’s mutual capacitive sensors, a charge-tansfer method of signal acquisition, and an Xmega microcontroller with bundled software to provide processing for handling an unlimited number of touches on a touchscreen. Fri, 02 Oct 2009 00:00:00 PDT PSoC available on standard 8- and 32-bit architectures http://www.edn.com/article/CA6699879.html?rssid=235 Cypress Semiconductor’s PSoC (programmable system-on-chip) processors not only enable developers to dynamically reconfigure digital-logic blocks to form custom digital peripherals during runtime, but also support dynamically reconfigurable analog blocks to form custom analog peripherals—also during runtime. Fri, 02 Oct 2009 00:00:00 PDT