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August 21, 2003
Cover Story
- Pump it up: PCI Express
With a new PCI Express specification in hand, designers are creating the interconnecting building blocks of tomorrow's high-performance embedded systems.
Design Features
- Cascaded power converters find acceptance as performance demands increase
With performance requirements on the rise, the benefits of a cascaded topology may outweigh its complexity. - Using VHDL-AMS to model complex heterogeneous systems, part 1
HDLs bridge the gap between math-based tools and physics-based tools to help you meet model-development requirements. - Platform-based design: Blocks and buses lead the way
The design method is becoming popular, despite a lack of a clear definition of what constitutes a platform.
Leading Edge
- 12-bit, 400M-sample/sec PCI ADC board offers 78-dB SFDR, memory expansion to 4 million points
- Dyno kit illuminates motor mysteries
- DSP core makes magic with complex arithmetic
- Software tool makes short work of polyglot IP in SOC ICs
- Temp sensor cools your act
- Stop testing from destroying low-voltage ICs on pc boards
- Search engine ante goes to 250 million searches/sec
- Autorouter adds command-language syntax checker
- Structured-array family touts 2.6 million gates
- Presilicon prototyping software adds self-test for debugging
- Logic analyzers offer fast capture, deep memory, compact size, and low price
How It Works
- Making the CAN bus a "can-do" bus
Connect a PC to your proprietary instrument using the CAN bus.
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