Editor's Note
Big Iron Conundrums
Published. May 24, 2013Tradeoffs between power and performance are far less obvious inside data centers than in the mobile market....
Chipnastics
New Processor Core Options Try Some ARM Wrestling
Published. May 13, 2013When designing a system on a chip (SoC) that employs one or more embedded processor cores, the choice of available processors continues to expand. At last month’s Design West conference in San Jose, Calif., designers were presented with many processor options. Leading the pack, ARM, with its broad array of cores offers a wide range of [...]...
The Canonical Hamiltonian
Getting Ready for DAC
Published. May 20, 2013DAC is in Austin this year, and I’ll be headed over from College Station to check out the latest and greatest in functional verification technology. I haven’t attended DAC since 2007 and I can’t wait to see how things have … Continue reading →...
JB’s Circuit
Long Standards, Twinkie IP, Macro Trends, and Patent Trolls
Published. May 10, 2013In Part II, IP Extreme’s Savage reveals why IP standards take so long while discussing brand values, macro trends, and changes wrought by patent trolls....
Chris A. Ciufo on All Things Embedded
Intel vs GM: What’s In Store for Intel’s New CEO, President
Published. May 2, 2013Today chip giant Intel announced outgoing CEO Paul Otellini’s replacement: he’s Brian Krzanich, former Intel COO and likely an Intel lifer. As Otellini bids goodbye at the annual stockholders’ meeting on May 16, Krzanich moves in as the company’s sixth … Continue reading →...
Pallab's Place
EUV and eBeam at SPIE ADV Litho 2013
Published. March 1, 2013While the main manufacturing flows are still focusing on optical lithography, eBeam and EUV are still making progress on advancements waiting for their chance in the main flow of the fab line. EUV is still working on power and throughput. A challenge for the industry is the dual sided consolidation for the advanced node development. [...]...
The Perils of Parallel
Intel Xeon Phi Announcement (& me)
Published. February 6, 20131. No, I’m not dead. Not even sick. Been a long time since a post. More on this at the end. 2. So, Intel has finally announced a product ancestrally based on the long-ago Larrabee. The architecture became known as MIC (Many Integrated Cores), development vehicles were named after tiny towns (Knights Corner/Knights Ferry – one was to be the product, but I could never keep them straight), and the final product is to be known as the Xeon Phi. Why Phi? I don’t know. Maybe it’s the start...
Domeika’s Dilemma
My Summer Vacation
Published. September 28, 2010Blogging has been something that slipped off my radar for the past year. Here’s a reboot to see if I can get this going again. I’ll start with where my brain has been the past 9 months. Once I have this out, the plan is to start blogging about my thoughts on industry happenings, needs, [...]...
Wizards of Electromagnetism
My Interview on EE Web
Published. December 8, 2011Interview with me, Colin Warwick, at EE Web...
Nick MacKechnie-Stuck somewhere between family life and IT...
How Microsoft IT Implemented Disaster Recovery in the Datacenter
Published. April 25, 2012Microsoft IT Showcase is pleased to announce the publication of How Microsoft IT Implemented Disaster Recovery in the Datacenter, which discusses DR consolidation and centralization within Microsoft, plus best practices for any large organization. Microsoft builds disaster recovery (DR) into its applications and systems. Recently, Microsoft Information Technology (Microsoft IT) improved DR planning by consolidating and centralizing its DR efforts. The new plan focuses on the critical processes...
Hardware/Firmware Interfacings
Why Trust your Chip Success to an Afterthought?
Published. February 17, 2011At a recent DesignCon, I attended the panel, “The Same Chip Killers Keep Delaying Your Schedules – What Are You Doing About It?” consisting of Ed Sperling (Moderator/System-Level Design), John Busco (NVIDIA), Ravi Damaraju (Juniper Networks), Ramon Macias (NetLogic Microsystems), Sunil Malkani (Broadcom), and Bernard Murphy (Atrenta Inc). I saw two common themes that I have [...]...
Discourse on Embedded Signal Processing
DSPBridge Open Source DSP Development On OMAP
Published. December 3, 2011The DSPBridge project allows open-source developers to use the OMAP processor’s on-chip DSP with embedded Linux. The DSP support is configured as a device driver when compiling the kernel, for details see the DSPBridge Project WIKI page on OMAPpedia.org. Sample code is included that demonstrate common tasks. There are a few articles on DSPBridge for [...]...
RF/Microwave Tracker
Teardown Signals Transition from GaAs to CMOS Power Amplifiers In 3G Handsets
Published. November 30, 2012Although, working CMOS based 3G RF power amplifiers (PAs) were demonstrated several years ago, the transition from 2G to 3G handsets has not been that easy for CMOS. Concerns over performance have severely limited its progression in the 3G space. … Continue reading →...
EmbeddedPC
Don’t get tied up in knots with your cables!
Published. September 28, 2011It always seems like it’s the little things that often cause the most problems with your embedded system. The more I work with electronic systems, the more respect and care I have developed for cables and interconnect systems. This goes … Continue reading →...
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