Contents
May 27, 1999
Cover Story
- HANDS-ON PROJECT: Lies, damn lies, and benchmarks: The race for the truth
is on
With apologies to Benjamin Disraeli, his definition of the three kinds of lies applies as well to programmable-logic benchmarking as it does to statistics. This hands-on project takes a fresh look at quantifying programmable-logic-device capacity, efficiency, and performance.
Design Features
- Digital buses, analog problems
The information that goes into and comes out of a bus is digital, but what goes on between input and output is analog. As decreases in component dimensions fail to keep pace with increases in clock speed, digital-hardware designers must learn to live in an analog world. - A peek behind the scenes at EEMBC
Two years after the formation of EEMBC, the first certified results from these industry-standard benchmarks are available. These results will provide you with an objective means of comparing processors and change the way you select processors for your designs.
Leading Edge
- Logic analyzers offer 2-GHz data capture, easier trigger setup
- Multithreaded scripting language integrates diverse applications
- On a different wavelength...
- Audio-filter instrument is analog outside but digital within
- Synthesis vendor gets physical with verification
- Display controller flexes its resolution muscles
- Put down that soldering iron
- Competitors unite
- Integration benefits counteract graphics shortcomings
- ADCs push base stations to digital mode
- Supersensitive accelerometers break price barrier
- Single-chip receiver takes your link to 900 MHz
- Calendar
- Oh, what a tangled...
Departments and Columns
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Who do you trust?
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Pointless parts proliferation creates pain
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A global perspective
- Name that Widget
Winners!
- Analog Angle
Analog-analysis tools revisited
