D&R Industry Articles (December 2002)

Articles for the Week of December 23, 2002

• Foundries wield intellectual property to gain an edge

Articles for the Week of December 16, 2002

• A powerful dual-mode IP core for 802.11a/b Wireless LANs
• Flexible, standards-based IP key
• Vendors must support IP reuse in SoC
• Synthesizable IP: the risk pays off
• Nanometer scale effects complicate IP characterization
• Analog IP re-use: concerns for "digitally-oriented" SoC designers
• High-speed fabrics deliver optimal IP implementation
• Your IP: easy to protect, easy to reuse
• 7 warning signs that you should be concerned about your IP provider
• Layout compaction accelerates SoC design through hard IP reuse
• Re-use versus re-synthesize: Preparing for deep submicron issues ahead
• The five facets of SoC design complexity
• Verification reuse enables design reuse
• Closing the abstraction gap in 100M-gate designs

Articles for the Week of December 9, 2002

• Using Linux while avoiding costs
• Is embedded Linux the right answer?
• Telecom equipment makers must build on Linux to remain viable
• Networking driver strategies for using embedded Linux
• Why choose Linux for embedded development projects?
• Building a custom embedded SoC platform for embedded Linux
• Synthesizable Verification IP
• Mixed-signal design flow enables RF CMOS chip
• System-level issues dominate code writing
• DSP app? 80-20 rule still works
• Optimizing performance of DSPs
• Selecting DSP development tools
• Wireless SDR: overcoming next gen handset challenges
• Speeding DSP solutions with FPGAs

Articles for the Week of December 2, 2002

• Gate-array-like processes gain ground
• How to organize a complex SoC project
• Reduce SOC simulation and development time by designing with processors, not gates
• SEMI survey shows '02 fab-tool market to fall 32%
• Keynoter sees asynchronous future for digital designs
• Fitting DSP to app no easy task
• Wireless home multimedia networks require multiple design strategies
• Reconfigurable arrays of processors needed for wireless multimedia