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Technology Showcase

Algorithm optimization for still image decoding saves camera power and memory
In designing digital cameras and other consumer devices incorporating camera functionality, with ever improving performance, memory and power often prove to be the major constraints.
- By Bhavin Kharadi, eInfochips Read more...

Partner Showcase Interoperability in the Multi-Format Home Network Advances in semiconductor process technology and design are making today’s programmable engines cost competitive with hard-wired approaches in the multi-format world. Henry Wiechman, Texas Instruments Read More...
Customer Success Story
Physical Design for a Digital Video flip-chip SoC Our physical design team was responsible for implementing the top level hierarchical netlist to GDSII more...

1. Why do so many chips fail?
It might be time to change the paradigm to instill in designers the need to use system-level design methodologies More...

- Nicolas Mokhoff, EETimes

2. System issues on IC designers' minds
Power dissipation and processvariability continue to preoccupy researchers as first-order concerns in design More...
- Nicolas Mokhoff, EETimes

3. Double-patterning may bail out industry
Immersion lithography could be late to the market, forcing chip makers to consider 193-nm “dry” and double-exposure techniques for chip production at the 45-nm node and beyond More...
- Mark LaPedus, EETimes

4. Linux joins the consumer-electronics revolution
Designers are initially attracted to Linux because it offers free source code, no licensing fee, and no per-unit royalties More...
- By Warren Webb, EDN

5. Status Quopia: Structured ASIC Captures Mindshare
Structured ASIC has been that shiny, new technology on the block for a couple of years now More... 
- Kevin Morris, FPGA and Structured ASIC Journal

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