Technology Showcase

Effective use of DMA in SoCs
With growing complexity of the silicon chips, it is mandatory to share the load of CPU with systems like DMA Read more...

Partner Showcase TI adds video to residential gateways Responding to service providers’ growing interest in offering “triple play” voice, data and video services, Texas Instruments at the Broadband World Forum unveiled a new residential gateway reference design that serves as a DSL modem, router and IPTV set-top box Read more...

eInfochips Corner

eInfochips is an Integrated Design Services company with over 325 engineers. The company offers products and services in ASIC/SoC design & verification and Embedded systems development.

1. Verification moves to a higher level
Functional verification often creates problems in the design flow. More than 50 percent of all chips fail initially, with 70 percent of problems due to functional verification. Simulation vendors respond by telling users to do more simulation, build bigger simulation farms, and use emulation. Analysis of past verification crises demonstrates that these answers did not and will not properly address the problem. More...
- By Brian Bailey

2. Choosing the right IP blocks for your embedded application
Design teams take a huge variety of approaches to selecting intellectual property. That is clear from even a cursory conversation with IP vendors, even before any systematic data gathering. Some teams are inherently rigorous and exhaustive, others rely on proven vendor relationships, others are far more ad hoc. More...
- By Ron Wilson

3. Optimizing signal integrity in high-speed embedded system designs
With the continuing demand for additional bandwidth, I/O interface frequencies and widths have increased with each generation of ICs. The increased I/O frequencies are causing bit periods to shrink, thus reducing the available timing margins. The downward scaling of the memory interface timing budget is a clear example of this high-speed design challenge. More...
- By Peggy Abusaidi, Xilinx Inc.

4. FPGA Soft Processor Design Considerations
With so many available processor design options design teams must make the difficult decision to choose the solution that best fits their specific project requirements, while supporting extended project life expectancies. All design teams struggle under the pressure to shorten product development cycles while taxed with incorporating features superior to existing competitive products. More...
- By RC Cofer and Ben Harding

5. Why is everyone so eager to market a digital video processor?
Hardly a month goes by without a vendor announcing that it has the ultimate video processor. Countless new companies have sprung up to address this hot market, and established processor vendors are scrambling to re-spin their offerings for digital video. More... 
- By Jeff Bier

Event	News
Embedded Technology 2005	eInfochips Partners with PolyVision to Design Innovative Visual Communication Tool Corporations and institutions now able to effectively share data and ideas in real-time, regardless of physical location more...
November 16-18, 2005 Japan Visit us at Booth # B - 43 To schedule a meeting at ET 2005 click here...

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