The world of the hardware design engineer has changed dramatically in recent years. Designers no longer sit and code RTL in isolation to meet a paper specification, and then wait for a hardware ...

“Digital convergence” is creating demand for functionally complex ICs in six-nine month design cycles at mass-market costs. On the one hand, increased capital investments in the late 1990s have seen ...

Getting the most from system-on-a-chip (SoC) designs requires optimal design of the logic surrounding the embedded processor. As SoCs have increased in complexity, optimizing the interfaces between ...

For many applications, allocating performance among all of the tasks in a system-on-chip (SoC) design is much easier and provides greater design flexibility with multiple CPUs than with just one ...

Driven by such general macro trends such as Internet everywhere, IPeverywhere and Seamless Mobility, in its 15-year assessment ofsemiconductor technology requirements, the International ...