D&R Industry Articles (August 2013)

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Open-source Framework and Practical Considerations for Translating RTL VHDL to SystemC

SystemC has gained wide acceptance in the design of new digital IPs. However, there are numerous IPs already designed in VHDL. With the advances in SystemC ecosystem, like IEEE standardization, TLM-2 standard, SystemC high-level-synthesis, many IP design-houses are interested in developing SystemC models of their portfolio VHDL IPs. However, there is a lack of any standard approach in this regard.

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Optimized Memory Accessing Through Coupling of Byte Enable Signals

A comparison between the conventional memory access algorithm and the optimized algorithm for three different interfaces (Memory/ AHB/ IPS) is depicted below.

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NVM memory: A Critical Design Consideration for IoT Applications

The explosion of information that IoT devices will gather will require huge numbers of processors to process and manage the data from these IoT devices along with lots of low-cost, secure and reliable embedded non-volatile memory (NVM) for code storage, sensor trimming, device configuration, security keys and other storage functions. Virtually every one of the projected billions of IoT devices can use some amount of one-time programmable (OTP) memory.

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Critical Building Blocks of Smart Meters

The emphasis of this article is on these basic elements required in the meter’s software design. In order to address this, it is very important to consider the essentials in its hardware and how different elements are interfaced with MCU, which executes the embedded software.