 Meenu Sarin takes a look at an industry fresh out of a recession. What will 2010 hold for electronics design engineers and managers, particularly those in the ASEAN and India? Read on to find out.
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India's SDS opens global office in U.S.
In line with its international plans, Samtel Display System (SDS) takes its aerospace capability overseas by opening its first office in San Jose, California.
LTE UE cuts time-to-market for terminal devices
Tata Elxsi debuts its 3GPP release 8-compliant LTE UE (user equipment) protocol stack, which enables reduced time-to-market of LTE terminal devices and silicon solutions.
- 900MHz RF SoC packs 96KB SRAM
- I/O expanders overcome CPU limitations
- Snap-in connectors offered in over-moulded design
- Power amp tailored for WiMAX mobile apps
- HD multimedia graphics card lowers cost
- 8A/channel power regulator offers design flexibility
- Triaxial accelerometer detects specific motion patterns
Scientists use carbon nanotubes to explore phase transitions
University of Washington scientists are working with nearly one-dimensional, single-walled carbon nanotubes, hollow graphite structures to study the phase transition behaviour of argon and krypton atoms.
- Simulation tool boosts performance up to 100x
- Coming soon: Graphene chips
- Gold superlattices promise new memory devices
Solving deterministic dynamic memory allocation issues
This article details the problems and an approach to deterministic dynamic memory allocation.
- Employing Blackfin processors for USB 2.0 designs
- Welcoming Android, other OS to embedded systems
- Assuring software quality with legal compliance
Setting the pace for next-gen cellular technology
As the cellular industry moves to more powerful, flexible and sophisticated products, time-to-market remains vital while driving reductions in size, cost, complexity and test times.
- Multi-homing support for data comms over cellular nets
- Optimise software to up radio performance
- Wireless apps call high-speed data converters
Reusing vital verification knowledge with OVM
Reuse of legacy-directed test environments is common practice. But with each generation of reuse, the number of tests grows and and the overhead of maintaining environment across multiple projects.
- Taking another look at ceramic chip capacitors
- Making GUI tests repeatable
- Improve system design testing processes with CMMI
The need for multi-cast in PCIe-based systems
As PCIe technology is being used in telecoms and embedded systems, the need grew for communication with more than one end-point at the same time.
- How to simplify your CAN design
- Enable energy-efficient data centres with new interconnects
- FPGA Mezzanine card enables I/O design flexibility
Know the advantages of surface-mounted device packages over through hole ones for power MOSFETs.
- RoHS: Its impact now and in the future
- Address power during manufacturing test
- Understand screen printing, component placement
Transfer Function and Pole-Zero
Here's a lecture that looks closer into the pole-zero domain. Prof. L. Umanand, Principal Research Scientist of Power Electronics Group-IISc Bangalore conducted this lecture.
Media tablets shipments to rise to 5.7crore by 2015
The market segment for media tablet, according ABI Research, will see four million units shipped this year and will zoom to about 57 million annually by 2015.
- Slight recovery on the cards for CE market in 2010
- Portable fuel cells market to reach Rs.10,769.11 crore by 2016
- 3D displays units to go up to 19.60 crore by 2018
How to improve energy efficiency in AC/DC power supplies
Here's a technical paper from Fairchild Semiconductor detailing how you can improve energy efficiency in your power supply design with the FAN9612 interleaved dual boundary conduction mode PFC controller.
- Attaining power efficiency in data centers
- Understanding USB port charging (Part 1)
- How to achieve high efficiency with power switches
Dealing with worst slew propagation
Static timing analysis is based on worst slew propagation. Hence, some of the timing paths are not able to achieve the desired frequency targets.
- Validating netlist reduction, circuit extraction
- Deliver faster turnaround time with in-design metal fill
- Address the needs of hardware design flows
Providing superior Internet video QoE
Internet video continues to grow in unexpected ways. This article shows how Internet video quality monitoring can be optimised, embedded and cost-reduced.
- Enabling 3D data capture
- Ease cross-domain signal protection for mixed-signal SoCs
- How to improve system time synchronisation accuracy
Reconsider home net connections
Bear in mind the possibilities of emerging home networking standards. It is to your advantage to be part of the home networking community.
- Uses of IOV in network infrastructure, Part 3
- Uses of IOV in network infrastructure, Part 2
- Uses of IOV in network infrastructure, Part 1
Ease image sensor calibration in camera phones
The enormous growth in camera phones has created design problems for phone manufacturers, not the least of which is image sensor calibration. Here's an article aimed to help you overcome the hurdles.
- Understanding automotive instrument cluster apps
- How to increase street light solar panels' efficiency
- Adding ultra low-cost video cam to existing systems
How to build user space library for dynamic memory analysis
Here's a simple technique for building a user space library for dynamic memory analysis.
- Guide to using ferroelectric RAM
- nvSRAMs for charging flash in data-loggers
- Advantages of higher-density SRAMs
Reports from the 23rd International Conference on VLSI Design and the 9th International Conference on Embedded Systems!
- Future research avenues in EDA
Prith Banerjee, senior VP of research and director HP Labs, highlights a few promising avenues in EDA with live examples from the HP Labs at the VLSI conference. - Infineon exec addresses IDM challenges in wireless sector
Hermann Eul of Infineon Technologies discussed the challenges for semiconductor IDM on wireless industry, primarily on mobile Internet at the VLSI conference. - Role of VLSI in SATCOM applications
K.S.Dasgupta from DECU, ISRO, highlighted VLSI's role in making better on-board satellite apps, ground systems and tele-medicine.
- ST owns iPad trademark
- Bouquets and brickbats for the iPad
- Roadblocks ahead for smart grid adoption
- Cisco, NetApp, VMware push secure virtual data centres
- Recession seeds innovation in chip market
- Zigbee module achieves 40km at 315mW
- Tiny load switches offer 4kV ESD protection
- PHR-ST capacitors come in large case sizes
- Hard-metric connectors offer 10GΩ insulation resistance
- Digital audio-grade IC enables 32kHz sampling rate
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Nexus One houses advanced smart phone tech
A teardown analysis by iSuppli reveals that Google's Nexus One incorporates many of the latest smart phone innovations in a single product that manages to be both cutting-edge and cost-competitive.
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concurrency?
Let us see difficulties for software folks in taking advantage of the multiple cores.
By Nagarajan Rajagopa
Setting the stage
Everyone agrees that it is critically important that carbon emissions need to be reduced. Then why is it so difficult for world leaders to agree on what needs to be done?
By Dr. Deepak Divan
Fearless 2010 analogue forecasts
forecasts
Bill Schweber expects—and more of it—for both business and technical reasons.
VLSI con-
ference tackles 2010 design challenges
Dr. Mahesh Mehendale, general chair, International Conference on VLSI Design, talks about the event in 2010.
While the doctor's job is the safest today, acquiring new skills can help design engineers get a slice with products for this market.
Is today a good time or a bad time to form a start-up? Certainly there are significant risks, but there are always risks.
By Jack Ganssle
