D&R Industry Articles (March 2016)

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Guide to Choosing the Best DCDC Converter for Your Application

This white paper introduces a procedure for choosing the proper DCDC switching converter for a given application. It explains basic, performance, and optional metrics in detail. It also demonstrates other practical aspects that are sometimes overlooked by system designers. Multiple application examples are provided.

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NVMe IP for Enterprise SSD

Most of SSD manufacturers jumped into this new storage market with flash-based technology. A second wave of products will come in the near future, using a new generation of non-volatile memories, delivering impressive speed performances compared to NandFlash memories. The SSD manufacturers will have to deal with low latency SSD controller design in order to benefit from the new NVM features, while keeping high reliability and low power consumption. This white paper proposes a solution based on a full hardware NVMe implementation, describing its architecture, implementation and characterization.

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LPDDR4: Now and for Next Generation

Technology has leapt several folds. Looking at the communication industry, it has steadily advanced from the heavy gadgets that had only calling and texting facilities, a poor battery life only made matters worse. This industry however has led to many research works and innovations, the phones that were once meant only for calling are now capable of doing so much, calling is now a secondary feature. Mobile device user is using so many applications in parallel which in turns demands more powerful processing unit and faster, bigger memory.

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BIST Verification at SoC level

With the increase complexity of modern day SoCs, the number of memory blocks and LBIST partitions are increasing, which is in turn making the verification efforts quite challenging. This paper highlights the key points to keep in mind while deciding the verification strategy for self-test, and what are the road-blocks in executing this “ideal” verification plan.

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D32PRO, scalable & royalty free 32-bit CPU

D32PRO is one of the newest 32-bit CPUs available on the market. It’s been designed by Digital Core Design, IP Core provider and SoC design house from Poland, responsible e.g. for the world’s fastest or world’s smallest 8051 CPU. DCD launched more than 70 different architectures since 1999, which have been implemented in more than 300 000 000 electronic devices, that’s why one can be sure that quite considerable experience stands behind the D32PRO.