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1. Approaches
to accelerated HW/SW co-verification
What if your software was tested and working before first
silicon came back from the foundry? What would that do to your product's
delivery schedule? As more and more electronic products have extensive
software content, designers are faced with serious project delays
if they wait for first silicon to begin software debugging. Indeed,
"first software" becomes the pacing milestone for product
delivery. More..
- By Ray Turner
2. Making the UWB PHY a "Transparent Patient"
The debate about the relative merits of Multiband OFDM and
Direct Sequence UWB (DS-UWB) continues unabated. The proponents
of each approach praise its particular merits, leaving designers
to perform comparative analyses based upon their own definitions
of operational requirements. The IEEE has taken the responsibility
to bring order into this chaos, but how does it-and the industry
as a whole-make a sensible standards decision without solid comparison
data? More..
- By Johannes Stahl
3. Meeting the Challenges
of VoIP ATA Designs
For VoIP services to continue to grow, carriers need lower-cost
phone adapters that are robust and easier to install. But, to make
that happen, designers must make some difficult hardware and software
decisions. Here's a look at some of the tough choices that must
be made.More..
- By Jeff Dionne and Brian Davis
4. Practical
Approaches to Improving ASIC Verification Efficiency
Statistics show that software coding, even when done well,
has 1 to 3 defects per 100 statements. That's too many errors for
any application, let alone for ASIC design, in which undetected
errors become embedded in the final product. It's not surprising,
therefore, that software verification is a major aspect of ASIC
development, accounting for more than half of the end product's
labor costs.More..
- By Stuart Riches and Martin Abrahams
5. Fuzzy
logic does real time on the DSP
Fuzzy logic doesn't require strange hardware or new programming
languages, just a different approach to set membership. Plenty of
physical systems, from elevators to boilers, can benefit from fuzzy-logic
programming. This article explores progamming a commercial DSP chip
to create a basic fuzzy-logic controller. More..
- By Byron Miller
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Technology Showcase
Implementing Verification Components on FPGA
With the ever-increasing size and density
of ASIC, conventional simulation based verification has become
a bottleneck in the project development cycle. As we go towards
system level simulation, the debug time increases steadily.
The "Synthesizable Verification Components" are a good fit
for verification after 90% of the design is mature.- More..
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eInfochips Corner
Client
Success Story
Our client is a leading European
company developing innovative navigation systems.This project
involved developing a high-end Navigation System with multimedia
features. Having complementing skills with the client team,
eInfochips’ product design services group offered solution to
the client to get the product to the market quickly.More.. |
News
eInfochips’
CEO bags the AMA Outstanding IT Entrepreneur of the Year Award
2004
The Jajoo - AMA Centre for Entrepreneurship in IT has
instituted this award to recognize enterprising individuals
who have built a successful IT organization in Gujarat and have
made a significant contribution to the industry with their leadership.More.. |
Designer's Corner
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Synchronous
resets are based on the premise that the reset signal will
only affect or reset the state of the flip-flop on the active
edge of a clock. The reset can be applied to the flip-flop
as part of the combinational logic generating the d-input
to the flip-flop. If this is the case, the coding style to
model the reset should be an if/else priority style with the
reset in the if condition and all other combinational logic
in the else section. If this style is not strictly observed,
two possible problems can occur.-
More..
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