D&R Industry Articles (August 2002)

Articles for the Week of August 26, 2002

• Choosing the best microcontrol solution still requires flexiblity
• Network performance requirements push up microcontroller ante
• SoC-based designs challenge traditional design flows
• Net processes shuffle design priorities
• Network dynamics, SoC impact MCU design
• Programmable logic/customizable CPU cores adapt hardware to apps
• Integration strategies transform microcontroller design
• SoC-based configurable systems replace the microcontroller
• Producing an Effective WLAN Prototyping Platform
• Creating a Star IP Core
• Strategy for reducing soft errors is needed
• ASIC vendors heed call for virtual prototyping tools
• Assertive verification: a ten-minute primer
• RF system-in-package competes with SoCs

Articles for the Week of August 19, 2002

• Design closure becomes elusive for the SoC generation
• Method ensures on-track designs
• Library promotes common standard for design properties
• ASIC design flow gives CPU core custom performance
• A silicon virtual prototype is key in achieving design closure

Articles for the Week of August 5, 2002

• Using adaptive computing in SDR design requires less time, risk, silicon
• A case for using FPGAs in SDR PHY
• Reconfigurable algorithm processing adds support to SDR commercialization
• Design, Verification: What's the Difference?
• Achieving Functional Verification Closure
• Productivity Boost in Embedded Processor Design
• A case for using a specialized language for NPU Design
• Network processors need a new programming methodology
• Modular design framework allows network processor software reuse
• Programmable NPUs 'edge' out ASICs
• Developers must balance NPU programmablity and performance issues
• SoC testers address altered workflow

Articles for the Week of July 29, 2002

• Missing the SoC bus
• Number of WLAN implementations doubled in a year, says report
• Questioning the Logic of Reconfigurable