At Apple, though, the attitude seems to be “Downturn? What downturn?” as it rolls out its newest smartphone, the iPhone 4S. For some perspective on this introduction, be sure to read “Apple iPhone 4S: Beginning of the end?” in which Rick Merritt speculates on whether the growing dominance of the open source Android smartphone platform is a sign that Steve Job's company has finally run out of luck.
For a reminder about where all this came from, be sure to read “From light bulbs to computers ,” the second part in Jack Ganssle's series of columns celebrating the 40th anniversary of the microprocessor.
In this article the authors address the problems faced in the testing of advanced SoCs. They describe some pad ring design techniques developers can use to allow die probe testers to operate in parallel fashion but without wasting die size.
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.
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.
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.
STA is a key task during chip design that directly impacts design cycle time. Hierarchical techniques are used to break down design complexity into manageable units…
This article will explore the basic operation of a 10GBase-T transceiver and the inherent advantages of 10GBase-T technology as compared to alternatives, such as optical fiber and coaxial copper.
Data traffic is overwhelming mobile operator's networks reports Steven Brightfield of Qualcomm CDMA Technologies. Projections from major operators confirm this trend, with recent reports ranging from data capacity doubling every 3 months (KT/Korea) to 12 months (Vodafone).
In an embedded system design, especially one bringing together high-speed RF and serial or parallel components, noise can come from almost anywhere. Without clues as to the sources of noise, debugging can be time consuming and tedious. With a mixed domain oscilloscope (MDO) however, engineers can see noise sources like spectrum splatter during turn-on, drain voltage power supply coupling, or other cross-coupled emission events and correlate these events to specific logic states or analog circuit conditions. This article discusses techniques for finding unintentional noise sources as well as using automatic markers to look for emissions (harmonic related or other).
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The OCTEON Fusion Family from Cavium, Inc., is a small cell “Base Station-on-a-chip” family specifically designed for LTE & 3G small cell base stations, including picocell and micro base stations.
The EBC-C384 from WinSystems is an EBX-compatible, Intel Atom-based single board computer (SBC) that comes with either the Intel Atom single core 1.66GHz N455 or dual core 1.80GHz D525 processor.
Microsemi's SmartFusion cSoC family is now available in a “CS288” 288-ball chip scale package package to cater to the growing miniaturization needs of embedded systems.
The SM2400 device from Semitech Semiconductor is a multi-standard OFDM-based power line communication (PLC) transceiver designed with the flexibility to operate in a wide range of noise prone smart grid environments.
The Newport smart meter reference platform from Maxim Integrated Products is designed to provide utility companies a versatile way to evaluate smart grid technology and manufacturers an easy-to-use smart-meter design to accelerate time to market.
The Embedded Code Source (http://www.microchip.com/get/R0BA), hosted by Microchip Technology Inc., is an application store for the embedded community that provides free software and firmware for PIC microcontrollers, along with the ability to rate and review each download.
Thirtyseven4 Mobile Security for Android (TS4Android) from Thirtyseven4, LLC, is a complete security solution to protect Android smartphones and tablets against all types of malware.
Jamcast Player from Software Development Solutions, Inc., is a streaming client app exclusively for Android devices. Using Jamcast Server and an existing home internet connection, consumers can establish a secure private cloud from which all of their digital music is shared.
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