Reports on the dismal state of the economy are still rolling in, including Future Horizon's prediction of 1% growth in global chip sales in 2012 , a precipitous drop from their earlier prediction of a 9% growth. Given the market conditions and the uncertain new job prospects that result, it would be wise to read “Where are the jobs? “, in which Junko Yoshida promotes theEETimes Silicon60 report on startups and the jobs they create.
But the news that could change the way embedded systems are designed is the agreement between IBM and Crocus that may allow the creation of completely nonvolatile SoCs with Crocus's magnetic logic and IBMs magneto-resistive MRAMs. Such a development would make it possible to save the complete state of a system without loss of information, changing significantly how we think about low power, reliability and security.
In this Product How-To article, Raima's Jeff Parsons describes the procedures he went through to build a C++ interface for the company's RDM Embedded 10.1 DBMS.
In many cases, developers of high reliability PCBs overlook key steps at in their design, fabrication, and assembly in order to save time and money, and get a project out the door on time. Here's how to achieve all three and still achieve high reliability through attention to board tolerances.
To deal with the printed circuit board design challenges of nextgen nanometer circuits and the demanding packaging constraints of small footprint mobile & embedded apps, Nexlogic's Michael Yu thinks the answer boils down to carefully crafted PCB design, fabrication, and assembly guidelines.
Carbon, energy, water, and waste data embedded during the design phase has more to it than simply good environmental stewardship. Design engineers can use global standards and trends in sustainability to get electronics projects off the ground, and drive accelerated development.
In this article the authors discuss the problems associated with SoC at-speed testing such as over-testing and under-testing, which affect yield, and provide suggestions on how to overcome them.
This article considers various solutions that can be used for functional SoC verification and software development; in particular S2C's FPGA-based hardware prototyping platforms are discussed.
Having high-frequency design tools resident on a VNA streamlines design and addresses the SERDES challenge.
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TI has introduced the new PLC Development Kit (TMDSPLCKIT-V3) and the PLC data concentrator reference demo on the Smart Grid Infrastructure (SGI) evaluation platform.
Texas Instruments Incorporated has introduced four new SIMPLE SWITCHER power management integrated circuits for space-constrained point-of-load designs in industrial, communications and automotive applications.
STMicroelectronics has announced the LET family of RF power transistors for applications such as government communications, private mobile radio as used by emergency services, and L-band satellite uplink equipment.
This low power capacitive sensor conditioning IC from ZMD supports broad range of sensor type and gives engineers cost-efficient component option for sensor designs.
Universal input (90VAC to 265VAC) lets the MAX16841 LED dimmer from Maxim Integrated Products operate with international dimmer models, which saves design time and costs.
Sourcery CodeBench from Mentor Graphics Corporation is a next-generation integrated development environment (IDE) based on the open source GNU toolchain.
Fujitsu Limited is using Wind River Framework for Automated Software Testing (FAST) to test its next-generation Android smartphones for software quality, performance, and compliance.
The CY8CMBR2016 controller from Cypress Semiconductor Corp. enables designers to implement capacitive matrix button systems of up to 4 x 4 buttons without having to write firmware or learn new software tools.
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