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February - 2010
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- Size, Weight and Power Drive VPX Growth
While VPX is on the rise, VME still dominates revenue thanks to legacy installations While the VME bus architecture today maintains its predominance in the military/aerospace market
- Elma Electronic Offers Widest Range of VITAbased Backplanes and Enclosures
VME/64X Systems Elma VME/64X systems feature a modular design and rugged, high-quality construction.These chassis are available in 19” rackmount, desktop or portable tower versions,
- The Return Of Optical
Optical communication is suddenly the communication medium of choice again as a way of minimizing the impact of bandwidth upgrades. Ray Alderman, executive director of VITA,
- Design abstraction – tyranny or triumph?
Decades ago when Microsoft unleashed Windows on the world, a colleague disparagingly dubbed the new operating environment as ‘DOS in a clown suit’. He had a point. For all
January - 2010
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- Changes in ASIC Landscape Open Opportunities for FPGAs
Economic, financial and competitive conditions are forcing ASIC and ASSP vendors to focus their efforts on very high volume markets and applications thereby creating a gap in the available
- FPGAs Gain Ground In China
FPGAs are booming in China. When Clement Cheung, director of marketing and applications at Xilinx Asia Pacific showed up to give a speech recently, he was worried not many people would
- Moving Beyond Processors
Wherever the enemy goes, let our troops go also. That quote, from Ulysses S. Grant, could be applied to modern computation as well as to strategies on the battlefield. In computing,
- The Quest for Information Drives New Opportunities, By IMS Research Group for Power.org
The Quest for Information Drives New Opportunities, By IMS Research Group for Power.org It’s 2010. It is the end of a decade that many would like to forget, and there is
- Effective Processing Solutions for Heterogeneous Multiprocessing
Effective Processing Solutions for Heterogeneous Multiprocessing Use of Homogeneous multi-processing—multiple instances of the same CPU—in compute engines for servers
- 2009 Power Architecture Advancement in Technology and Market Share
In 2009, Power.org and its members advanced Power Architecture technology, completing a number of vital initiatives including Power ISA standards, hypervisor, virtualization and
- Year of Awards for IBM and Power Architecture
IBM – 2009 Year of Awards IBM Wins US National Medal of Technology and Innovation for Blue Gene Supercomputer Based on Power Architecture In October, President Obama
- Public downloads and tools
This area of the site will provide links to evaluation kits, tools, and downloads that will help you with your Power Architecture designs. To view Members-only specifications from
- Window on the Web
Demonstration of the Sitara Cortex-A8 AM3517 Graphics Capabilities http://e2e.ti.com/videos/m/digital_signal_ processors/97394.aspx Windows Embedded ESC Boston 2009 Keynote
- The (Lower) Power Of Multimedia
Designers wrestle with the dual needs of boosting performance for larger data sets while lowering the power budget. The classic tradeoffs of area, performance and power are tilted
- Get Ready For 3D
The advent of digital imaging in the production, broadcast and projection of films will drive the current 3D craze into a sustainable long-term trend. The digital medium allows for
- End User Report: Challenges In Wireless Audio Design
When most people think of wireless audio applications, they think of a Bluetooth headset that connects to their mobile phone. But a growing segment of the wireless audio market is occurring
- Flash Programmers from Elprotronic Inc. for Texas Instruments’ Microcontrollers.
FlashPro430, GangPro430 - for TI’s MSP430Fxx MCU. Communication via JTAG, Spy-Bi-Wire or BSL FlashPro-CC, GangPro-CC - for TI’s Chipcon CCxx MCU. Communication via
- Android Will Revolutionize User Experience in the Digital Living Room
When Google kick-started Android™ as an open-source platform in 2007, it was designed to provide rich applications and functionality for mobile handsets. Now, thanks to Android’s
October - 2009
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- People in the News
IEEE Council on EDA Honors Igor Markov with Early Career Award Professor Igor L. Markov, associate professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from the University of
- Misinterpretation of Data–An Architectural Problem?
All man-made systems are prone to two fundamental types of shortcomings known as Type I and Type II errors. These errors have to do with the misinterpretation of data, a problem that
- PCI Express Continues to Push Into New Application Areas
Since it’s introduction in 2004 by Intel, IBM, Dell and HP, adoption of the Peripheral Component Interconnect Express (PCIe) protocol standard has moved along at a healthy pace,
- PCI Express – The Quest for More Speed
Launched in 2002, the first generation of PCI Express (1.0) supported 2.5GT/s and transitioned from the existing parallel data architectures to a serial data technology to provide a
- PCI Express Roadmap Is More Than Speed Bumps
Figure: PCI Express Chronology Not content with just cranking-up the bus speed, the PCI-SIG® is driving new protocol extensions that should increase the usage and adoption of
- Published Specifications - ISA 2.06
The Power Architecture Advisory Council announced in late January 2009 the availability of the Power Instruction Set Architecture (ISA) version 2.06. ISA 2.06 is a major specification
- Power Architecture Silicon Roadmap
Power Architecture technology is behind millions of innovative products: the world’s fastest supercomputers, leading video game consoles, automobile elecytronics and networking and
- Power Brand System
To identify technologies and companies that leverage and support Power Architecture technology – and to help propel the market presence of the architecture – Power.org encourages
- 2009 Power Events
Santa Clara, Convention Center Feb 2-5, 2009 DesignCon09 Austin, Hilton Hotel June 20-24, 2009 San Francisco, Moscone Center July 26-31, 2009 San
- Power.org vision for Power Architecture
Vision “The leading architecture in tomorrow’s connected world” Mission Be the leading ecosystem solutions alliance for key market segments. Our Approach >
- POWER7 & Power PC Processor Cores
IBM's Next Generation Server Processor POWER7 Core The new POWER7 Core has a total of 18 Execution units, including two fixed point pipelines bit aligned to the two
- IBM PowerPC 476FP Embedded Proccessor Core
A high-performance processor core with coherency-enabled level 1 caches Highlights Superscalar, 5-issue, 32-bit RISC processor core Implements Power Instruction Set