Embedded-design short cuts By Warren Webb, Technical Editor
Low-cost development kits provide design teams with ready-made tools to battle growing software complexity and shrinking project schedules.
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Energy harvesters extract power from light, vibrations By Margery Conner, Technical Editor
Harvesting ambient energy from light or vibrational sources can free power-miserly designs from traditional power lines and batteries.
Flexible silicon: GUI-programmable audio processors (Part 2) By Joshua Israelsohn, Technical Editor
A trend in signal-processing ICs offers simple and direct parametric control and functional programmability. Taking full advantage of flexible chips, however, may demand flexibility in your design methods, as well.
Board decoupling using a standard methodology By Barry Caldwell, Vitesse
To deal with the side effects of increased clock speeds and frequencies, engineers must bypass di/dt transitions and reduce noise.
A systematic approach to verifying FSMs By Shaker Sarwary, Atrenta, and Michael A Beaver, Insilica
Careful attention to managing the design-style choices and complexity attributes for finite-state machines can impact the quality and verifiability of the final implementation.
