D&R Industry Articles (August 2008)

Articles for the Week of August 25, 2008

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Upfront Analysis of Low Power Specification, Assertions and Testbench to Enable Reuse

This paper discusses the different aspects, in addition to the RTL, which should be checked for static errors and good coding practices to reduce design and verification cycle time.

• Building a multi-voltage, high performance, ultra low standby power 32-bit MCU
• A Semi-Automatic IP Distribution Tool
• Capturing and communicating power-efficient design knowledge
• Using FPGAs to improve your wireless subsystem's performance
• Algorithmic synthesis improves designers' efficiency

Articles for the Week of August 18, 2008

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Collaborative Engineering Approach Towards IP-Based SoC Design

This paper introduces a visual knowledge-based modelling platform and a system enabling integration of distributed design tools that have been deployed in a distributed collaborative scenario of IP components design

• Microcontroller Design in FPGAs
• Implementation of the AES algorithm on Deeply Pipelined DSP/RISC Processor
• Achieving cache coherence in a MIPS32 multicore design
• In-system programming of FLASH via control unit application

Articles for the Week of August 11, 2008

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Low Power High Speed All Digital Phase Locked Loops

In this paper an All Digital phase locked loop is proposed. This PLL can accomplish faster phase lock. Additionally, the functions of frequency comparator and phase detector have been improved and are well synchronized.

• VLSI Based On Two-Dimensional Reconfigurable Array Of Processor Elements And Theirs Implementation For Numerical Algorithms In Real-Time Systems
• How to analyze and reduce power using Libero IDE
• Learning not to fear PCI Express compliance
• Microcontroller architectures, then and now
• Smart camera basics: Matching image sensor, analytics and processor performance

Articles for the Week of August 4, 2008

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Hardware Security Requirements for Embedded Encryption Key Storage

As the sophistication of global competitors and IP thieves in countries with weak IP protections increases, there exists an increased need for enhanced physical security for sensitive security information such as encryption keys.

• AMASS Core: Associative Memory Array for Semantic Search
• How to manage dynamic power in a microcontroller using its non-maskable interrupt
• Antifuse memory IP fuels low-power designs
• Going from GDSII to OASIS