Analog/Mixed-Signal Design
Low power design for analog/mixed signal IP
Power reduction and management techniques using multiple clock and power domains, dynamic voltage and frequency scaling and power gating are effective for digital circuits but for analog design, lowering power consumption must be considered early in the design phase.
Dynamic Voltage Droops & Total Power Integrity
This article sheds light on key differences such as voltage droops and noise wave propagation resulting from on-chip load interaction with power network impedance and discusses how total power integrity may be rigorously inspected through rapid analyses and physics-based simulations.
Characterizing Nanometer CMOS PLLs, Sigma-Delta ADCs and AGCs
The verification of analog/RF blocks presents challenges when using a digital fastSPICE simulator. The use of an analog fastSPICE simulator mitigates them.
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Board-Level Design
Viewpoint: Package-on-package is killer app for handsets
To continue Moore's Law trend toward smaller, sleeker handset devices, designers can leverage advanced packaging and interconnect methods to meet the miniaturization requirements.
BGA Breakouts and Routing
Charles Pfeil's book is very helpful for those designing PCB with BGA devices.
Silicon is only the beginning
Choosing the right package during the creation of a chip for the test phase of development and for the final device can not only reduce your time-to-market but also help you create tangible benefits for your customers.
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Electronic System Level (ESL) Design
Algorithmic synthesis improves designers' efficiency
Algorithmic synthesis moves the creation of application engines (algorithms on silicon) to a higher level of abstraction, giving significant time and cost savings.
Power trends point to a knowledge of integration
As a holistic, system-level view of power management -- in addition to ever-advancing chip technologies -- becomes increasingly important, open conversations and collaboration among DSP, SoC, MCU and analog power management designers are critical, write three managers from Texas Instruments.
ESL handoff: closer than you think
Any viable design methodology requires tight links to implementation, and to meet this need a new generation of High-Level Synthesis tools is emerging, based on SystemC.
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Digital IC Design
Capturing and communicating power-efficient design knowledge
A low-power kit gathers expert knowledge and best practices to: eliminate common problems; establish flows to ensure tools and technologies are applied to achieve the best results; and establish processes to ensure predictability.
In-system programming of FLASH via control unit application
A high level of data integrity and data security is essential when using FLASH memory in automotive control units. In order to successfully implement FLASH solutions in this kind of environments it takes to consider a set of basic rules.
Going from GDSII to OASIS
The OASIS format was developed to address GDSII limitations. Learn about benefits, limitations, and translation issues.
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Verification
Learning not to fear PCI Express compliance
Verification of a PCI Express implementation using a third party VIP proves successful.
Viewpoint: Boost verification accuracy with low-power assertions
Low-power designs have raised the bar on the verification effort, writes Krishna Balachandran of Synopsys.
Bridging the Gap Between Silicon and Software Validation
Post-Siliocn Validation and Software Validation are problems that must be tackled in a systematic manner.
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