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June 2005, Vol II Issue VI
 

 
Welcome to eInfochips' monthly newsletter - Dashboard, your source for industry news in the ASIC & Embedded technology areas.

Top Stories of the month
1. FPGAs Enabling Consumer Electronics – A Growing Trend
2. Revving video encoding on C64x/DM64x DSPs
3.

Inside DSP on Digital Video: Developing Software for a Digital Video Product

4.

Trust designs, but verify, say panelists

5.

90nm Custom SoC? Not That Hard When Most of It's Already Working


Technology Showcase

BSP porting for embedded OS
One strength that modern RTOS have is that they provide a high degree of architectural and hardware independence for application code. This portability is due to their modular design, which isolates all hardware-specific functionality into a set of libraries called the Board Support Package (BSP). Read more..


Partner Showcase
Enhanced Core Plus New Features Equals Video-Optimized DSP

Improved execution efficiency and code storage density--thanks to an enhanced instruction-set architecture--catapults the TMS320C6455 DSP to a 20% average throughput upgrade over its predecessor, the C6415 DSP. Read more..

 

eInfochips Corner

Featured Product

IP core for Image Resizing More..

Designer's Corner

Techniques for dealing with IR drop and signal integrity issues in nanometer technology More..

Customer Success Story

Behavioral model development of DDR IO Cell for a leading memory company More...

News
eInfochips to double headcount More...
Announcement Interlace de-interlace image IP core more...

 

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Designer's Corner

Tip of the Month
Dealing with IR drop issues in nanometer technology
- Vijay Patel


 

1. FPGAs Enabling Consumer Electronics – A Growing Trend
Today low-cost FPGAs are at the forefront of the process curve with architectures implemented on 90nm process technology. The relentless march down the process curve, coupled with increasing yields on larger wafer sizes, has resulted in a dramatic decrease in FPGA costs. More...
- By Suhel Dhanani, Sr. Manager, Xilinx

2. Revving video encoding on C64x/DM64x DSPs
To avoid the huge cache-miss penalty and CPU stalling, the algorithm can be broken into three loops, each of them a separate module that fits into L1P. Instead of processing a single MB at a time in each loop, the module processes n macroblocks-an MB strip. More...
- By Cheng Peng, Texas Instruments

3. Inside DSP on Digital Video: Developing Software for a Digital Video Product
Software development for video applications presents many of the same challenges as those found in other embedded signal processing applications. High computational demands coupled with a need to keep costs low in consumer products often mean that aggressive software optimization is required. More...
- By Amit Shoham, BDTI

4. Trust designs, but verify, say panelists
Successful IC verification cannot be relegated to second fiddle in the design orchestra. Not only independent independent design and verification teams are required, but also a concurrent design and verification development environment. More...
- By Nicolas Mokhoff, EETimes

5. 90nm Custom SoC? Not That Hard When Most of It's Already Working
One of the tricks to high-speed communication is embedding the clock signal within the data. Getting the clock back out and using it to recover the data requires some careful design. More... 
- By Steve Williams, SoC Business Development, Toshiba America Electronic Components, Inc.

Technology Showcase
Layered BSP development task can be divided into high level and low-level development. By providing a practically stable upper layer, Windows® CE BSP development often is limited to low level OAL development. Read More..
- By Harshvardhan Bokil


eInfochips Partner Showcase
The enhanced instruction set includes 16-bit operations to reduce code size by 20% to 30%. In addition, TI claims the C6455 is the first DSP chip to pack both Serial RapidIO links and a 1-Gbit Ethernet media access controller. Read More..
- By Dave Bursky


eInfochips Corner

Featured Product
Image Resize Design IP Core

IMR (Image Resizing) IP core provides facility to shrink or enlarge images according to user requirement. It implements nearest neighbor method for image enlargement and interpolation method for image shrinking. More...

Customer Success Story
Behavioral model development of DDR IO Cell

eInfochips role was to develop a Verilog behavioral model for DDR IO Cell defining the cell micro architecture, developing and supporting intergration with customer environment. More...


News
eInfochips to double headcount: Expand presence to tap markets in Europe and Asia . More...


Announcement
  Interlace de-interlace image IP core
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