D&R Industry Articles (August 2003)

Articles for the Week of August 25, 2003

• Software-Rich Chips
• Pressure is on Third-Party Memory IP
• Configurable processors or RTL -- evaluating the tradeoffs

Articles for the Week of August 18, 2003

• IP-Reuse and Platform Base Designs
• The PCI Express Architecture and Advanced Switching
• Platform-based design: Blocks and buses lead the way
• Avoid corruption in nonvolatile memory
• Multi-core multi-threaded SoCs pose debugging hurdles
• MPEG-4 encoder on an embedded parallel DSP

Articles for the Week of August 11, 2003

• Tips for firmware-friendly register design
• Non-Transparent Bridging Makes PCI-Express HA Friendly
• IBM Executive strategy report - When the butterfly flaps its wings: Adapting to chaos and uncertainty in the electronics industry

Articles for the Week of August 4, 2003

• Accellera's ALF language lets designers control libraries
• Flexibility key to portable wireless design
• Software radio closes in on handsets
• Speed, power crunch looms for wireless
• Signal-processing system design tackles tough wireless apps
• Design, programming and verification of 3G basestations
• Mentor Graphics Executive Viewpoint : Increasing System Complexity Drives Need for IP
• A 4GHz fractional-N synthesizer for multi-mode wireless applications
• Rotten to the Core or Core-blimey…Silicon DNA! - Part 1: Getting Ready to Outsource an IP Core
• Rotten to the Core — Part 2: Soft and Vanilla or Hard and Cryptic?
• Standards-Based IP Cores Ease Networking IC Design
• Attacking the verification challenges: Applying next generation verification IP to bus protocol-based designs
• ASIC technology is morphing as demand for custom chips remains solid despite rising mask costs and slow growth in many end markets.

Articles for the Week of July 28, 2003

• Behavior Analysis for SoC Debugging