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AMD continues to pursue actions that would level the playing field and make it possible for them to beat Intel.
- • Consumers seek well-designed gadgets
- • What are the strong markets in IC downturn?
- • Power techs embrace smart grid web
- • Actel taps UMC for 65nm eFlash FPGAs
- • Micrel, Zilog announce partnership
- • Firms demo interoperability for WiMAX, LTE apps
Single-chip solution targets ULC handsets
The chip enables customers to bring mobile phones to market within a 5-month time frame.
Demand for handset displays slows
According to DisplaySearch, Q4 2008 mobile phone display unit shipments will only be 2.5 per cent higher y-on-y.
Understand RF instrument specs
Read this tutorial that discusses generic, generator and analyser specifications.
- • Ref designs ensure compliance for mobiles
- • Build a Zigbee wireless control network
- • RF fundamentals: Transmission line theory
Designing next-gen analogue/RF with last-gen tools
Read about last-generation circuit and RF simulation tools used to design next-generation analogue/RF circuits.
- • Post-silicon validation methodology for DSPs
- • Early power analysis with CPF
- • Accelerating verification closure for complex SoCs, IPs
Design LED drivers for portable devices
Read about the different LED solutions for backlighting and display of portable electronics.
- • Single-chip ICs boost adaptive front lighting system
- • Understand interlaced video, de-interlacing techniques
- • Simple projection feature saves time, money
Moving rapid prototypes to metal components
Electron beam melting is a new alternative for both rapid manufacturing and prototyping metal components.
- • Build to order palletising in real time
- • Moisture vs. plastic-packaged ICs
- • Accomplish manufacturing test at low power
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Will WiMAX eventually move into homes and offices, and render DSL/cable connections obsolete? 
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Mult-core SoCs challenge interconnectsCan existing standards-based interconnect protocols handle the new demands of multi-core SoCs? Freescale's Greg Shippen discusses how these protocols measure up.
Reduce cost, get I/O connectivity in comm system
Know the advantages of using PCIe end-point and PCIe-native silicon solutions.
- • Achieve stable, reliable IPTV services
- • Wideband vs. narrowband VoIP codecs
- • Corporate IT or industrial Ethernet?
Choose the right signal generator
Read this to learn what kind of signal generator is most suitable for your applications.
- • Fundamentals ADCs and DACs, Part 5
- • Compensate for impedance discontinuities with LVDS
- • Measure rise/fall ADC sampling clock
Speed handset test with adaptive test case
Adaptive test case methodology allows reuse of test IP across test cases, handset platforms and operating systems.
Enhance stability, performance of audio amps
Read about the different approaches to developing an audio system.
- • OpenMP for programming parallel threads
- • Increase HW/SW system design productivity
- • OCP's role in multi-core designs
Tools show trade-offs in switching power supply design
A power supply design environment should provide an end-to-end online-enabled design and prototyping process.
- • Green design enhances normally-on switches
- • Implement OVP circuitry for safe USB charging
- • Digital telemetry advances torque measurement
Take advantage of GPIB capabilities
Learn about extensions of the general purpose interface bus and their integration into hardware framework.
- • HDMI design guide for high-speed PCB design
- • Enhance medical imaging with connectors
- • Routing solutions for complex AV systems
The need for secure storage in car systems
Know the memory requirements of certain automotive applications and the attributes they need to have.
- • Fully-buffered DRAMs suit memory-constrained portables
- • Know when to use dynamic allocation
- • Design, test 10Gbit Fibre Channel SANs
Read The File to learn aboutwireless/networked DAQ, embedded rail monitoring, digital telemetry, and other test and measurement trends.
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Know how PowerTheater utilises CPF most efficiently for developing power-efficient designs.
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Trigger multiple-
boot with platform flash PROMs
Platform Flash PROMs enhance safety in the event of failed configuration, and reduce pin count and board space.
Are systems folks a dying breed?
Systems people are invaluable and increasingly hard to find. At times I wonder if they are a vanishing breed.
By Jack Ganssle
Keeping your IC cool with upside-
down approach
There's no getting around it: many ICs should have some form of heat sinking.
By Bill Schweber
Make way for the wireless chief
How businesses learn to commu-
nicate within their organisation is about to be drama-
tically reshaped.
By Wade Patterson
Synapse Wireless
MIDs: Not just a matter of conveni-
ence
Do people really need another gadget to lug around?
By Jeff Bier
Converter box enables DTV for analogue sets
Know what's inside the LG Insignia NS-DXA1 that allows low-cost DTV conversion.
Some see the downturn as an opportunity—more design and manufacturing work is likely to be offshored from expensive locations.
By Vivek Nanda
