Configurable processors: Stir it up By Robert Cravotta, Technical Editor
Configurable processors can be a cost-effective ingredient in your design. But they may also be an evolutionary abstraction.
Design Features
When the package means as much as the chip By M Grupen Shemansky, PhD, and M DiBerardino, PhD, Agere Systems
Successful design of high-speed, high-pin-count ICs requires packaging engineers and chip designers to work closely together throughout the project.
FROM EDN EUROPE: Creating quasistatic, parameterized FPGA designs By Jo Pletinckx, Rik Vlaminck, and Jan Vandewege, Ghent University, Belgium
New configuration approaches can lead to easier system designs, benefiting a range of applications. Reducing the overall pin count, interface complexity, and resource usage also enables FPGAs to be a flexible digital-signal-processing alternative to DSP architectures.
FROM EDN EUROPE: Tiny packages push physical limits By David Marsh, Contributing Editor
As we've come to expect ever more from the components we use, we've also become accustomed to seeing ever-shrinking packages house everything from a single resistor to the most complex DSP. Are there limits to miniaturisation?
Flying over the action By Robert Cravotta, Technical Editor
The Skycam mobile camera system can quickly and accurately move anywhere within a 3-D space.
