Many video systems are implemented with feature-rich FPGA and multi-rate SDI integrated circuits that support high performance professional video transport over long distances. But FPGAs demand high density routing with fine trace width while high-speed analog SDI routing demands impedance matching and signal fidelity. This paper outlines the layout challenges facing hardware engineers and provides recommendations for dealing with these challenges.

Richard Lyons, author of "Digital Signal Processing," describes way to reduce the number of multipliers in a linear phase FIR filter with an odd number of taps.

The implementation of a complex correlation algorithm on a Freescal Starcore DSP for international dial tone detection with special focus on computational load and memory requirements.

Richard Lyons, author of "Digital Signal Processing," describes a number of ways to implement windowing of FFT data using Hanning, Hamming and Blackman window techniques.

Richard Lyons, author of "Digital Signal Processing," describes a couple of techniques for improving the stopband attenuation of a digital filter.

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Semiconductor Insights has recently finished analyzing embedded flash technologies implemented in flash-MCU's from seven leading MCU manufacturers: Renesas, Infineon, Fujitsu, ST Micro, Toshiba, Microchip and Atmel.

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