Archives: Articles
-
A Measure of Respect
Ours is a networked world. Anything that’s anything is connected to the Internet. No matter how unrelated, things somehow manage to get from here to…
-
IP Inexact
Intellectual property (IP) is, in our modern edition of the SoC design world, the equivalent of the opposite gender (in our modern equal-opportunity-exasperation world): you…
-
MIPS, Mario, TV, and Trends
This week, MIPS Technologies announced that it’s scored another TV set-top box design win. Specifically, the company proudly bragged that NXP (formerly Philips Semiconductors) is…
-
Locking Down Power
We’ve talked a lot in the past about the process node tango danced by the two largest FPGA companies. With each step, one leads and…
-
Working Towards Independence
Everyone’s trying to make their code run faster. Since we can’t count on processors simply doing the work for us by running faster, we have…
-
Obscurity and the Illusion of Security
Eric Raymond, prominent voice in the open-source movement and author of The Cathedral and the Bazaar, stated it well: “Any security software design that doesn’t…
-
What Do We Do About Multicore?
I’m always suspicious when a PowerPoint slide says we’re at a turning point in history. It strikes me as egotistical to think that today is…
-
Power Estimation in High-Level DSP Design Flow
Want your DSP design to consume less power? Join Amelia Dalton as she talks with Tim Vanevenhoven of Xilinx about new methods for estimating and…
-
The Simulizater Is Not God
It’s crunch time. The prototype for our board has been spun and is in transit back to our lab for testing. The project is already…
-
Power Primer
We’ve talked about power a lot on these pages over the past year. We’ve told about advances in power optimization and estimation, struggles with leakage…