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June 2004, Vol I Issue X
  

  Welcome to the monthly issue of Dashboard, your source for industry news in ASIC & Embedded technology areas, and happenings at eInfochips.

Top Stories of the month
1 A 'network-centric' approach to on-chip interconnect
2 FPGAs adapt to suit low-power demands
3

USB: the ubiquitous tool
4 Split Approach to 802.11 MAC Processing
5 Meeting the Challenges of VoIP ATA Designs

Technology Showcase:
Assertion Based Verification. Read more..

eInfochips Corner


Featured Product eInfochips' USB Daughterboard
Client Success Story eInfochips develops an audio/ video streaming application based on TI’s DM642 platform for a US based customer.
eInfochips' KVM/IP Solution covered in 
EE Times

This article discusses the design architecture of KVM/IP and details how eInfochips team met the performance requirements with available off-the-shelf silicon solutions, without resorting to ASIC, FPGAs or ASSPs.

Designer's Corner Dealing with design Hot Spots - II
 

eInfochips is an Integrated Design Services company with over 150 engineers exclusively focused on Electronic Systems Design and Verification.

The company offers products and services with expertise in the areas of ASIC/ SoC design & verification and Embedded Systems development


 



Designer's Corner

Tip of the Month
Dealing with design Hot Spots - II



 

1. A 'network-centric' approach to on-chip interconnect
One of the major problems associated with future SoC designs arises from non-scalable global wire delays.. More..
 - By Andre Ivanov, Resve Saleh, Partha Pande and Cristian Grecu

2. FPGAs adapt to suit low-power demands
Any consideration of FPGAs should start with a look at their fundamental technology, which provides an array of gates, combinatorial logic and registers along with a configurable interconnection matrix.. More..
- By Mao T. Wang

3. USB: the ubiquitous tool
USB is not just confined to wired connections: a number of wireless combinations coming to market as well. One common area of interest and speculation was on how to combine the advantages of USB with those of the TCP/IP protocol: in essence USB over IP.. More..
- By Bernard Cole

4. Split Approach to 802.11 MAC Processing
To meet the emerging real-time demands of WLAN networks, designers can turn to a split media access control architecture that distributes processing tasks between access points and centralized switch.. More..
- By Matt Glenn

5. 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

Technology Showcase
Assertion Based Verification

It's known that close to 70% of project time for chip design is spent on verification. Assertion based Verification is a methodology that helps come out of this tiring, tedious, error-prone, long-time problem.

Assertion based Verification is something that has been used in the industry since long, though it was never standardized and named. In its simplest form, Verilog users coded conditional loops to check for certain erroneous conditions and VHDL programmers, used assert statement.- Read More..

eInfochips Corner
Featured Product
USB Daughterboard:
Provides real-time, high performance USB 2.0 interface for TI C6000 DSKs, compliant to TMS320 cross-platform daughter board specifications V1.0. More..		 Client Success Story
With proper synchronization between interfaces, application of various hardware devices and multiple audio / video algorithms, eInfochips’ team delivered the complete solution in time achieving the desired performance. More..

Designer's Corner

Dealing with design Hot Spots - II
Functional areas of the design that have a high route per area requirement cause Hot Spots. They are a function of routing resources and thus pass through synthesis without detection. The user has to be aware of the type of circuitry that is described by their RTL code. This article illustrates how Hot Spots can be avoided.- Read More..


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