Dos & Don'ts: getting the most from wideband scopes By Dan Strassberg, Contributing Technical Editor
Despite high-performance scopes' copious built-in intelligence, you still must employ lots of your own brainpower to obtain meaningful results in high-speed serial-bus debugging.
Design Features
Reaching down: 32-bit processors aim for 8 bits By Robert Cravotta, Technical Editor
The ongoing effort to supply low-cost, 32-bit processors has them beginning to encroach on the territory that 8-bit processors now own.
Getting to silicon: accuracy requirements of nanometer designs By Brian Marshall, Mentor Graphics
Although device and parasitic extraction has been an issue at each technology process node, at 130 and 90 nm, it has become the major issue. Today, simulation may not accurately account for an analog device's uniquely shaped diffusion and may create a stress that may cause an entire chip to fail.
