Embedded-processing platforms: a second look By Robert Cravotta, Technical Editor
Processing platforms and their software-development ecosystems are becoming more important for the success of designing increasingly complex applications. A hands-on project with Texas Instruments' Davinci platform reveals some of the challenges designers face.
Design Features
Designing consumer electronics: feeling the squeeze By Ron Wilson, Executive Editor
Designers in the consumer market work under enormous pressures. Have these circumstances changed the way they design chips and systems?
Global Report 3: Globalization and analog By Paul Rako, Technical Editor
Analog is the real world, and needs differ from place to place. Accordingly, analog engineers face challenges in accounting for a multiplicity of standards, conventions, and consumer preferences, depending on where a product finds use.
Global Report 3: IP plays cautiously in emerging markets By Michael Santarini, Senior Editor
All the big IP vendors are offering IP to emerging countries, such as China, India, and, to some degree, Russia. but if you are designing ICs in those countries, don't be surprised if established IP companies refuse access to their RTL and offer you only a hard core or require you to work with one of their "trusted partners."
Global Report 3: Linux masters the mobile market By Warren Webb, Technical Editor
With a huge assortment of server, embedded, and consumer-electronics designs already in its portfolio, the Linux operating system dives into the exploding worldwide mobile-phone marketplace.
Fixed-point-IIR-filter challenges By Michael Christensen, University of Florida, and Fred J Taylor, University of Florida and the Athena Group Inc
IIR filters can meet highly selective magnitude-frequency-response specifications with a low-order approach. As such, an IIR is often the technology of choice in realizing frequency-selective tone detectors, narrowband spectral filters, noise rejecters, and digital controllers. their design, however, entails some unique challenges.
