Directing distant devices By Warren Webb, Technical Editor
Get a jump on your competition by adding a management system to your embedded design to remotely update features, repair bugs, collect data, and enable new services throughout the life of the product
Design Features
EDA open systems: "Open" is not a magic word By Gabe Moretti, Technical Editor
Design data, not just EDA algorithms, are the key to successfully implementing large systems. A design-centric methodology can free you from vendor-specific tools and allow you to efficiently use the best tools in their class.
Designing for minimal jitter when using clock buffers Paul Li, Pericom Semiconductor Corp
High-speed digital boards leave little room for timing margin, certainly not enough to take jitter performance for granted. Awareness of just a few key factors can yield superior performance by design.
Self-correcting codes conquer noise, part one: Viterbi codecs
Syed Shahzad Shah, Saqib Yaqub, and Faisal Suleman, Chameleon Logics
System designers fight noise with error-correcting codes that add extra information to a transmitted signal, increasing the probability that the receiver recovers correct data.
Do combo chips compute (or even compile)? By Brian Dipert, Technical Editor
Single-chip ASIC/programmable-logic hybrids are moving off the drawing boards and into sampling and production availability. You require a design and validation flow that is not radically different from the one you are currently using before you can seriously consider them. Are the vendors up to the challenge?
