Tee up your multiprocessing options By Robert Cravotta, Technical Editor
A good processor taxonomy helps you understand processing architectures' sweet spots. You should probably look at multicore options in the same way.
Design Features
USB 3.0: A simple idea full of challenges By Ron Wilson, Executive Editor
Combining 5 Gbps with the convenience of USB sounds like a sure win, but many issues are hiding behind the premise.
RF Engineers Automate Tests By Martin Rowe Senior Technical Editor, Test & Measurement World
Many test engineers sidestep the built-in capabilities in today's RF-test equipment and devise their own algorithms, applications, and automated tests.
Designing portability into silicon IP By Joseph Pun, Gennum Corp, Snowbush IP Group
Design foundry portability into IP cores, rather than applying it after the fact.
Troubleshooting a transaction-level model By Andrea Kroll, PhD, JEDA Technologies
Seemingly minor violations of the TLM 2.0 standard can turn a system-level model into an agent of evil in your design flow.
