Selecting a CPU core for multi-CPU SoC designs
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2003-03-03 |
| This article examines the many features of processor cores being considered for multi-CPU designs. |
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Complex SoC testing with a core-based DFT technique
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2008-02-26 |
| Know how to overcome the challenges of high power consumption and huge data volume generated during testing. |
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DFT, DFM tests assure quality SoC design
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2005-08-16 |
| Learn the importance of design-for-manufacturability and design-for-test in ramping up advanced products in deep-submicron technologies |
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Video processing approaches for a portable multimedia SoC
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2006-10-27 |
| This article compares the three main approaches for developing multimedia based SoCs—hardwired accelerators, video co-processors and general purpose processors. |
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Next-gen DSL: SoC doubles the data rates
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2005-01-17 |
| The promise of an even broader broadband reach rests on the shoulders of two new DSL implementations--ADSL2+ and READSL. |
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Reinvent JTAG for SoC debugging
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2009-02-05 |
| Read about IEEE 1149.7, a complementary superset of the widely adopted IEEE 1149.1 (JTAG) standard. |
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H-Bridges provide 'smart power' for automotive SoC applications: Architectures and circuit protection
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2008-02-26 |
| From electric motor controllers to Class D amplifiers, efficient mixed-signal integration is vital in design, and saving energy and cost. |
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An integrated approach to PCI verification in SoCs
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2001-11-01 |
| This article looks at the device verification strategy and implementation of a typical PCI subsystem design in order to improve SoC designs |
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Integrating power management solutions into SoCs
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2006-04-18 |
| This article describes power management options available for SoC design engineers, with techniques for easier and faster integration of analogue IP functions |
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Hybrid architecture for digital pictures
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2001-12-01 |
| This paper describes the requirements involved in partitioning a hybrid SoC platform across a DSP for digital cameras |
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Getting ready for Smart Grid
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2010-03-31 |
| This article aims to serve as a guide to determining the SoC architecture for a basic utility meter |
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Synthesize SoCs using C-based design flow
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2001-08-01 |
| This is a case study in which an SoC was synthesized for Columns Ltd using a C-based design flow |
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The work flow of a block-based design team
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2001-12-01 |
| In the block-based design flow, engineers work with blocks comprising thousands of cells rather than with the individual cells, thus providing a higher level of abstraction necessary for dealing with complex multi-million-gate SoC designs |
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Evaluating processing options for system-on-chip integration
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2004-07-01 |
| Decisions in SoC integration has to do with the resources available and how features and bugs will be handled |
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Matrix approach for on-chip interconnect
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2002-04-01 |
| This technical article describes how an innovative matrix technique can easily simplify SoC interconnect processes for complex IC designs |
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Design with Verification: Not an Oxymoron
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2007-11-05 |
| In SoC development, the relatively new concept and practice of design with verification promises multiple benefits |
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Considering third-party IP
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2010-06-03 |
| Every designer faces a plethora of challenges in their SoC designs. These challenges are product release plans, design complexity, quality and goal of first silicon success |
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Few-chip packaging: An MCM renaissance
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2001-08-01 |
| Kevin Rinebold explains how FCP is a more attractive risk management strategy than SoC for combining IP from multiple sources or mixed semiconductor technology |
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| SoCs likely to pose heading-off test problems
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2000-12-01 |
| This technology news article describes the problems and solutions test engineers should face when confronting SoC designs |
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Get multi-core performance from one core
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2007-04-04 |
| An SoC with a multi-threaded virtual multi-processor might be just what you're looking for |
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Power Integrity and Energy Aware Floor Planning
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2008-01-29 |
| Extreme performance and frequency are no longer dominant design goals for SoC's. Recent years have witnessed changes in microprocessors' architectures, with multi-GHz unicore CPU devices abandoned in favour of low-frequency multi-core variants, and frequency becoming a forgotten memory |
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Improve the industrial climate with better MCUs
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2007-05-03 |
| This article discusses examples of critical applications, where adding intelligence and processing horsepower closer to the nodes within the process can impact efficiency and reliability improvements. New SoC designs provide the intelligence necessary to make critical process measurements and enhance the control of these parameters |
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Simulators shred the limits of mixed-signal design
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2004-06-16 |
| Under pressure from 90nm processes and rising clock frequencies, analog/digital SoC tools have stepped up to meet engineers' needs |
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Design embedded DSP software with multi-core SoCs (2)
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2007-11-27 |
| This is the second instalment of a series that focuses on DSP software design using multi-core SoC architecture |
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Modeling for HW-dependent SW systems
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2005-04-01 |
| The article looks at strategies to successfully design products powered by large and complex SoC designs |
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Delivering a full-chip hierarchical circuit simulation
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2003-02-03 |
| Since many nanometer problems are related to the dynamic circuit reponse, detailed full-chip circuit simulation should become the most effective way to resolve problems in SoC, memory and mixed-signal designs |
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Integrating processors with emulation extension chips
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2008-08-06 |
| This article discusses how embedded emulation extension chips provide more insight on highly integrated SoC microcontrollers |
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Functional verification of 10M-gate SoCs
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2002-03-01 |
| This technical article discusses the advantages of implementing the "white-box" design methodology for instrumenting RTL structures inside very large SoC designs as compared to the traditional black-box test suites |
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Early power analysis with CPF
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2008-10-31 |
| Learn how PowerTheater can utilise CPF most efficiently to help users develop power-efficient SoC designs |
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| Logic suppliers seek ways to embed FPGAs
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2001-03-01 |
| Driven by the convergence of communications, computing and consumer applications, SoC design complexity increases the time required to bring competitive products to market, putting a premium on design speed and flexibility |
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