D&R Industry Articles (June 2002)

Articles for the Week of June 24, 2002

• Embedded Linux quandary: what price for a free OS?
• At Last: Wait Is Over For Bluetooth
• Flexibility added to auto infotainment designs
• Slump in ASIC designs hits IP suppliers

Articles for the Week of June 17, 2002

• DSP market takes a turn toward licensing
• Chip, board designers differ on preferences, concerns
• VLIW core teams with dedicated hardware to crunch audio-video streams

Articles for the Week of June 10, 2002

• Keynoter says chip value is in its intellectual property
• Designers, providers weigh value of unified tools
• Designers urged to bridge the hardware-software divide
• Analog IP business not likely soon, say DAC panelists
• Dataquest predicts automation of RTL
• Suppliers couple IP with design services to add value

Articles for the Week of June 3, 2002

• Hardware-assisted verification gate counts soar
• Tiles - An Architectural Abstraction for Platform-Based Design
• It's Beginning to Look A Lot Like ASIC - Tools Mirror the Evolution of Programmable SOC Complexity
• Platform-Based Design: What is Required for Viable SoC Design?
• The Embedded SoC
• FPGA Designs Take on Timing Closures
• Language Attributes Ensure IC Verification
• Comms SOC Design Challenges Tool Capability
• Embedded designers face a myriad of multiprocessor challenges
• Tools for Test and Debug : Embedded designers face a myriad of multiprocessor challenges
• Tools for Test and Debug : Reconfigurable IP requires a flexible software development toolset
• Tools for Test and Debug : System C: a realistic SoC debug strategy
• Tools for Test and Debug : Comprehensive tool chains needed to debug multiple processor cores
• Tools for Test and Debug : Adapting traditional embedded debug strategies to SoC designs
• Tools for Test and Debug : Specialized net backplanes needed for DSP debug in distributed environments
• Tools for Test and Debug : Embedded real-time behavior requires "design-in" processes
• Tools for Test and Debug : Dealing with determinism in DSPs with pipelines and caches
• Dataquest sees slow silicon wafer market; downturn changes vendor rankings
• Platform-based design still getting the kinks out