D&R Industry Articles (September 2004)

Articles for the Week of September 27, 2004

• Inside a hybrid verification model
• Embedded test speeds system verification
• Embedded platforms pose test challenge
• Zero bugs is the goal for every embedded task
• Extending validation another level
• Integration drives embedded software development and hardware debug
• Infrastructure IPs build ICs out well

Articles for the Week of September 20, 2004

• How FPGAs empower system-level design
• Digitally Controlled Analog Provides a New Methodology for Embedded Systems in Subwoofer Applications
• Digitalizing analog circuits cuts chip area
• Digital circuits make analog array configurable
• Analyzing High-Speed Serial Links (Rambus)
• Understanding the reuse of a DSP architecture for different designs (Ceva)

Articles for the Week of September 13, 2004

• Making SPI-4.2 Implementations More Efficient: Part 1
• Nine reasons to adopt SystemC ESL design
• Making SPI-4.2 Implementations More Efficient: Part 2
• FPGA design from the outside in
• Platform FPGAs enter SoC land
• Trade-offs in high-performance comms
• FPGA-to-ASIC conversion a crucial concern
• Flash-based FPGAs serve point-of-sale apps
• Platform ASICs stake the middle ground
• Structured ASICs take FPGA prototypes into volume production

Articles for the Week of September 6, 2004

• New Wave of FPGA Prototyping for System-on-Chip Designs
• FPGA's vs. ASIC's
• Tunneling SPI-4.2 Through an Advanced Switching Fabric

Articles for the Week of August 30, 2004

• 'Symmetric' design technique facilitates power analysis
• Optimizing for PowerPC on embedded Linux
• Multi-Ports Eliminate Baseband Processing Bottlenecks