D&R Industry Articles (February 2015)

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Internet of Things - Opportunities for device differentiation

The Internet of Things (IoT) is an emerging market trend impacting semiconductor devices, system OEMs, cloud service providers, and internet infrastructure companies. The trade press, accompanied by the types of companies mentioned above, has spilled a lot of ink on the subject, but this is typical in an emerging market with evolving requirements.

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Three types of headset detection to embed in audio converters

In mobile electronics, a single device suffices to cover various daily usages: calling, taking pictures, playing music, geolocating, etc… All of these common features should fit in one’s hand. To adequately implement these new functionalities, audio electronics must not be limited to basic plug and play functionalities any longer. Smartphone applications should be compliant with new user practices by enabling more interactivity and giving more possibilities to control the inner functionalities.

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Non-Power-of-Two FFT Circuit Designs Do Not Have to be Difficult

One reason that the power-of-two FFT dominates the landscape of high performance real-time signal processing applications is the perception that alternative non-power-of-two (NP2) circuits are difficult to implement.

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Distribution: An approach for Virtual Platform scalability

Reducing time-to-market thus requires anticipation of tests and software development far before board Silicon availability. This anticipation heavily relies on Virtual Platforms and Coemulation/Coprototyping solutions, with particularly an increasing usage of Virtual Platforms by hundreds of users with different focus: SoC verification tests, System validation tests, OS kernel, drivers, applications.