D&R Industry Articles (May 2017)

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Ultra HD H.264 Video Codec IP solution on Zynq FPGA

Numerous industries in broadcast, cable, videoconferencing and consumer electronics space are using H.264 as the video codec of choice for their products and services. The H.264/AVC video coding standard achieves a significant improvement in coding efficiency with increased computational complexity relative to former standards.

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Correlation of Routability and Placement Density for better QoR in 16nm technology

In any physical design procedure, Placement and Routing are the two chief steps. To get better QoR in routing, engineers tend to give a first glance to placement density. In this article, we will discuss the method to figure out the range of placement density through various practical data.

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Improving Inter Integrated Circuits - From Sensor Hubs to Platform Management Solutions

This paper attempts to redefine these existing system level solutions using I3C and examine the improvements it can bring over I2C based solutions. Furthermore, it presents a seamless and risk free migratory path to the industry from these I2C based architectures to I3C based architectures using proven Synopsys Solutions.