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April 17, 2008
Cover Story
- Embedded technology: designers choose from the latest fabrics
Embedded-system designers are using the latest switched-fabric technology to not only boost data rates, but also dynamically optimize performance, bypass failed subsystems, and coexist with legacy components.
Design Features
- Integrating high-speed serial I/O: no snap for SOC designers
Examine the problems an SOC team faces in integrating what many see as an unfamiliar, particularly delicate mixed-signal-IP block into their already-challenging chip designs. - Blind prefetching improves PCI Express-to-PCI-bridge performance
Standard bridges allow designers to combine the high-performance PCI Express interconnect with legacy PCI-bus architecture. Advanced bridge features, such as blind prefetching, boost data throughput. - How to maximize application payload with a minimal machine-code footprint
Learn how to analyze a traditional algorithm to drastically reduce the memory footprint and generate processor-friendly machine code for a typical automotive application.
Pulse
- IMEC launches methodology to analyze process variability
- IBM develops tiny nanophotonic switch for optical routing between cores
- Voices: Freescale’s Lisa Su: embedding future growth
- Quad data converter features dual FPGAs
- CompactPCI computer integrates multicore technology
- POE controller gears up for new physical layer
- Low-power, low-noise analog-front-end IC targets ultrasound systems
Departments and Columns
- Baker's Best
ADCs: Does ENOB tell the whole story?
- edn.comment
Embedded-system design: Those devilish details
- Prying Eyes
You can punch out and manufacture this cell-phone reference design
- Tales From The Cube
Finding clock glitches
