EDN

Building an FPGA FIFO without using logic resources

Today, FPGA designers are using these flexible devices to perform everything from simple glue logic tasks to implementing complicated system on a chip (SoC) functions. The efficiency and ease of ...
EDN

RTL coding architecture affects power estimation & analysis

A well thought out design flow for SoCs ensures that the resulting device meets the requirement of low power dissipation. To meet these goals at the device level, individual modules (or components of ...
Electronics Weekly

SPI FIFO can configure serial clock signal

Digital Core Design, the Poland-based IP core design house, has developed the DSPI_FIFO, a fully configurable SPI master/slave device, which allows the SoC designer to configure polarity and phase of ...
Semiconductor Engineering

Microarchitecture Design For Low Power

As designs move to finFET process nodes, dynamic power reduction has become a requirement. Designers have to eliminate or minimize all sources of redundant switching activity in order to reduce ...
Design-Reuse

Making SPI-4.2 Implementations More Efficient: Part 1

The SPI-4.2 interface has quickly achieved the industry-wide recognition and is highly accepted as standard high-speed interface in the networking chip space. However, creating an efficient SPI-4.2 ...