Blog Post: Designing with PIR motion detectors: part 1
Published. August 17, 2017

Imagine waking up in the middle of the night to find that all of your motion-sensitive lights have suddenly turned on. Now you’re stuck wondering whether there is a stranger in your home or if Fluffy the dog simply triggered the lights while on a quest for a midnight snack. This is just one example of why false trigger avoidance is necessary in motion-detector designs. Motion detectors are becoming ubiquitous in applications ranging from building security systems to lighting and automatic door...

How Materials Science Will Determine the Future of Human Civilization
Published. August 16, 2017

If Moore’s law continues, electronic devices will consume more than half the world’s energy budget within 20 years. To prevent that, we need a fundamentally new material....

Open Source Initiative blogs

SerenataFlowers.com and Hipper.com Extend Support to Open Source through OSI Sponsorship
Published. August 16, 2017

Open source adoption continues to grow as companies seek not only higher quality software, lower costs, and an end to predatory vendor lock-in, but also leverage the power of community investment and collective intellect to drive innovation. PALO ALTO, Calif. - Aug. 16, 2017 -- Today the Open Source Initiative® (OSI), the global non-profit formed to educate about and advocate for the benefits of open source software and communities, is pleased to announce corporate sponsorships from SerenataFlowers.com...

Electronics Engineering Video Blog Podcast

EEVblog #1015 – Beware Evil (But Clever) DC Jacks!
Published. August 15, 2017

Trivia time. Dave explains one of the reasons why annoying centre negative DC power jacks exist. Forum HERE...

Change text of button as it copies textarea
Published. August 12, 2017

I'm not extremely great at coding, but I'd like to have players in my basketball program be able to copy and paste some code (on their phones) from a textarea. The catch is I also want the button to turn green and say the words "Copied! Now open the app ......

The Art of Analog Design Part 2: Monte Carlo Sampling
Published. August 12, 2017

Historically, one of the great challenges that analog and mixed-designers face has been accounting for the effect of process variation on their design. Minimizing the effect of process variation is an important consideration because it directly impacts the cost of a design. From Pelgrom’s Law (1), it is understood that the device mismatch due to process variation decreases as the square root of increasing device area, see note 1. For example, to reduce the standard deviation, sigma, of the offset...

All About Microsoft

Microsoft confirms new Windows 10 Pro for Workstations edition
Published. August 10, 2017

Microsoft will add a Windows 10 Pro for Workstations edition for power users to its Windows 10 lineup this Fall, when it releases the Fall Creators Update....

All About Microsoft

Microsoft confirms new Windows 10 Pro for Workstations edition
Published. August 10, 2017

Microsoft will add a Windows 10 Pro for Workstations edition for power users to its Windows 10 lineup this Fall, when it releases the Fall Creators Update....

Rands In Repose

How to Build a Rumor
Published. August 6, 2017

There’s a rumor wandering through your team right now. I’m sorry to report; it’s toxic. It’s the kind of rumor that contains so much interest and emotional energy that the humans can’t help repeat the rumor to each other. It’s about you, and it’s completely untrue. When you hear the rumor, the content will give… More...

How to Model State Machines in the Accellera Portable Stimulus Standard for Low Power SoC Verification
Published. August 4, 2017

The Accellera Portable Stimulus Standard (PSS) is experiencing growing customer interest, and generating a host of questions. In this blog Sharon Rosenberg details the modeling of state machines using the PSS in order to perform low power SoC verification, followed by a demonstration of the same in Perspec. In addition he clarifies the term “Graph” as it is used in relation to the PSS. (Please visit the site to view this video) Read more about Cadence Perspec System Verifier and support for PSS....

Denali Memory Blog

What Will It Take to Bring DNN to Embedded?
Published. July 12, 2017

If you missed Michelle Mao’s presentation at the recent Autosens conference in Detroit, “What Will It Take to Bring DNN to Embedded?”, you missed an important evaluation of how designers can do four fundamental things to lower the power budget and bring deep neural networks (DNNs) to embedded systems: Optimize the network architecture Optimize the problem definition Minimize the number of bits per computation Use optimized DNN hardware Paul McLellan, Cadence’s Breakfast...

Mocana Device Blog

How Do We Protect Power Grids from Getting Hacked?
Published. July 12, 2017

Months after the Mirai Virus and WannaCry cyber attacks, another series of massive ransomware attacks shook companies across the globe, including a state power company in Ukraine. The impact of the NotPetya virus was devastating, locking down multinational corporations and disrupting critical services to healthcare patients. Earlier this month, it was reported that hackers are targeting US nuclear facilities....

Mocana Device Blog

How Do We Protect Power Grids from Getting Hacked?
Published. July 12, 2017

Months after the Mirai Virus and WannaCry cyber attacks, another series of massive ransomware attacks shook companies across the globe, including a state power company in Ukraine. The impact of the NotPetya virus was devastating, locking down multinational corporations and disrupting critical services to healthcare patients. Earlier this month, it was reported that hackers are targeting US nuclear facilities....

Linux and Open Source

Dell Precision 5520 Mobile Workstation review: The Ubuntu Linux laptop for power developers
Published. July 5, 2017

For Linux programmers who want maximum power on the road, you can't beat the Dell Precision 5520 Mobile Workstation....

EEPROM Wear Leveling
Published. July 5, 2017

A problem that occurs from time to time is the need for an embedded system to keep track of the number of doodads it has processed since it was put in to service. Clearly you can’t keep this value in RAM as it will be lost when power is removed. Thus the obvious solution is […]...

Everything USB

Six USB-C Laptop Docks Help Maximize Connectivity
Published. June 16, 2017

What You Need to Know USB-C docks – unless they are Thunderbolt 3 version – are universally compatible with legacy USB ports on existing PCs.  Battery […] The post Six USB-C Laptop Docks Help Maximize Connectivity appeared first on Everything USB....

Tech Deseign Forums Blog

Sonics adds heat-aware DVFS to SoC power controller
Published. June 27, 2017

Sonics has developed a version of its power-management IP core for SoCs that adds support for dynamic voltage and frequency scaling, along with the ability to tune settings according to temperature....

Green Hills Software

Green Hills Software Announces Platform for Secure Connected Car to Address Critical Safety and Security Demands
Published. June 7, 2017

ISS Device Lifecycle Management Advances from Manufacturing to Operations with Secure Remote Updates and Management...

Laptops and Desktops Blog

HP embraces VR with Omen X Compact Desktop, adds external graphics dock solution
Published. June 7, 2017

The company's backpack PC for virtual reality will finally reach consumers, while the Omen by HP Accelerator is a Thunderbolt 3-based housing for a graphics card to boost the gaming power of your laptop....

ALL FUTURE BLOGS AT LINK BELOW
Published. May 17, 2017

BLOGS...

CFD doesn’t mean Color For Directors

CFD Helps Design More Efficient Datacenters
Published. March 22, 2017

Behind the scenes of our ever-growing information and entertainment consumption, huge datacenters are an essential part of today’s massive Internet connectivity. In addition to the general web-support services provided by the likes of Google, large companies also are running their own datacenters. With so many proliferating, the efficiency, reliability, and energy-use of these buildings that […]...

scalability.org

Requiem
Published. March 22, 2017

This is the post an entrepreneur hopes to never write. They pour their energy, their time, their resources, their love into their baby. Trying to make her live, trying to make her grow. And for a while, she seems to. Everything is hitting the right way, 12+ years of uninterrupted growth and profitable operation as […]...

Software Modeling and KPI
Published. March 9, 2017

Closing the Loop with Key Performance Indicators In Software Modeling Goes Mainstream, Ed Sperling recently wrote how chipmakers are applying use case modeling techniques to better understand the interactions between software and hardware and how they impact system performance and energy efficiency. As the software content for multicore SoCs grows, these interactions are becoming increasingly […]...

Verification Horizons Blog

How To Connect Your Testbench to Your Low Power UPF Models
Published. January 5, 2017

Face facts: power supply nets are now effectively functional nets, but they are typically not defined in the design’s RTL. But proper connection and behaviors of power nets and logic – power down, retention, recovery, etc. – must be verified like any other DUT element. As such, the question is how can D&V engineers link […]...

PCB Signal and Power Integrity Tech Corner

Decoupling Analysis for Trace-Routed PDNs
Published. September 29, 2016

Performing an accurate high-frequency analysis of a power distribution network routed with traces instead of planes poses some interesting challenges.  Most notably, the analysis engine has to be flexible enough to model complicated coupling between power and ground.  The typical assumptions made by a planar solver are no longer valid, and more sophisticated modeling must be […]...

10 Encounter Tips and Tricks You May Not Be Aware Of
Published. July 27, 2012

In looking over the shoulders of Encounter users over the years I've found there's a bunch of little tips and tricks I use to make interacting with the tool a little easier that aren't necessarily immediately obvious. Here are some of the more common ones I used this week: When navigating an Encounter log file in a text editor, search forward for " ". Each time a command is executed it's embedded in the log file, for example: " optDesign -preCTS ". This makes it...

Infinite Playbook for the Verification Superbowl
Published. January 10, 2011

Its 4th and long, you're down by six, the clock is running out, and you are wary of a bug-blitz. What play do you call? With new approach defined by Silicon Realization, the updated Incisive Enterprise Simulator provides the new capabilities to finsh your drive, route the bugs, and win the verification Superbowl. Even before the snap you need to check the environment statically to eliminate bugs. The 700+ rules in the HAL lint support were expanded with new coding and structual checks, as well...

New Product: ARM ACE Assertion-Based Verification IP (ABVIP) Available Now
Published. November 26, 2012

Preface: on Tuesday December 11 we are giving a free a webinar on "ACE Assertion-Based Dynamic, Formal, and Metric-Driven Verification Techniques with ABVIP". Register today: http://goo.gl/rmBhh As anyone who has worked with ARM's AMBA 4 AXI TM Coherency Extensions -- a/k/a the "ACE TM " protocol -- knows, there are a ton of different configuration options and operational scenarios available to the designer. Of course, this flexibility and power presents a significant verification...

10 Encounter Tips and Tricks You May Not Be Aware Of
Published. July 27, 2012

In looking over the shoulders of Encounter users over the years I've found there's a bunch of little tips and tricks I use to make interacting with the tool a little easier that aren't necessarily immediately obvious. Here are some of the more common ones I used this week: When navigating an Encounter log file in a text editor, search forward for " ". Each time a command is executed it's embedded in the log file, for example: " optDesign -preCTS ". This makes it...

Frank Schirrmeister Blog

How to Maximize Your Verification Experience at DAC 2016
Published. June 2, 2016

Next week will mark the annual EDA gathering in Austin. For me it is my 20 th DAC … I know, compared to some I am still wet behind my ears, but that’s only because I started my career in embedded software and actual chip development. I already outlined in my Blog “ The Top Five Trends In Verification To Watch For At DAC 2016 ”. The System Development Suite is all about the connection between different engines and the verification fabric holding them together, maximizing throughput, allowing...

Intel vs ARM - Did the Embedded Systems Conference India Shed Light on the Battle?
Published. August 5, 2009

Being a Brit, Cricket is never very far from my thoughts especially when travelling to India, the biggest cricket mad nation in the world. There is a saying in cricket that you should always think of doing what the opposition would least like, a statement that applies in business too. I was on my way to present a session on Verifying Embedded SW Power Management” at the Embedded System Conference in Bangalore . With the recent activity by Intel firstly joining forces with TSMC to deliver licensed...

It’s Time to Modernize Debug Data and It’s Happening at DAC
Published. June 4, 2015

“The leading edge is 1 million gates.” That was the news when we approved IEEE Verilog 1364-1995 and the open VCD syntax standard for debug data interoperability. Now the leading edge is over 1 billion gates and it’s time to modernize VCD. If you stop by the Verification Academy booth at DAC on Tuesday June 9 at 5pm, you’ll learn how. Now that I’ve piqued your interest, lets take a look at why we need to do this. In the early 1990s, engineers were running RTL and gate designs on simulators...

e Templates – Cool Tool, Now Even Cooler
Published. March 23, 2016

One of the reasons why verification engineers love e is the power it gives them as no other language can. The combination of macros, reflection and extension allows you to create high quality utilities that can be shared by verification teams all over your company. Such utilities are an effective way to enhance the quality of the verification environment; the base type or template are created once by experts, and used all over the company. Template types in e allow you to write generic code, where...

Signal Integrity

Farewell Posting: How to Model Nonlinear Magnetics in Power Electronics
Published. May 31, 2016

Signal integrity is all about moving information, but power electronics is all about moving power. So what’s my latest power electronics video doing on a signal integrity blog? Well, one way of looking at it — and it’s a stretch — is that signal integrity overlaps with power integrity and power integrity starts with the […]...

John Day

Ford Says Fusion Energi, With EPA-Estimated 610-Mile Range, Can Go Further Than Any Plug-In Hybrid
Published. May 31, 2016

Ford now offers a plug-in hybrid that can travel 610 miles on a full tank of gas and battery charge according to EPA estimates. It’s the highest combined range of any plug-in hybrid sold in America. (Photo: Business Wire) According to a recent survey, 40% of Americans are concerned about how far their vehicle can […]...

Chris Gamell's Analog Life

On Having Co-workers
Published. March 18, 2016

I thought the thing I wanted more than anything else was to work alone. By myself. With myself. For myself. Quit my job. Strike out on my own. Sure, no job actually exists in a vacuum. The basis of commerce is one entity paying another, which sets up a power structure. So I assumed I would be […]...

Stephane Boucher's DSP Blog

An absolute position encoder VHDL core
Published. November 11, 2015

Introduction Let's consider motorized systems controlled by electronics. A closed loop architecture looks like this: The following components are involved: the motor itself (DC, stepper ...), the controller, in charge of computing position according to the whole system state, the driver board in charge of generating signals and power for the motor, the position......

John Coyne's Embedded Blog

Compact 7 Webcast–June 19th!
Published. May 21, 2012

  Our Windows Embedded Compact 7 team is hosting a Webcast on June 19th! Image Tuning to balance Performance and Power in Windows Embedded Compact 7 The demands of the embedded world make creating the best image possible an absolute requirement.  This difficult task is made easier by the vast array of profiling and tuning......

Wireless Sensor Networks Blog

Low-Power Wireless Bus (LWB)
Published. December 15, 2015

We are happy to announce the open-source release of the Low-power Wireless Bus (LWB), a communication protocol for low-power wireless embedded systems. By mapping all communication onto network-wide Glossy floods, LWB lets low-power wireless nodes communicate as if they were connected to a shared bus, thus hiding the complexity of the underlying multi-hop topology from […]...

GROG: Green Tech Blog

Save energy and Money by weather stripping your house
Published. October 2, 2015

I originally wrote this for Tashman Home Center Weather stripping your home can save you money for several different reasons. While Southern California may not have harsh winters, it does have heat and our famous Santa Ana Winds and with climate change increasing the frequency and severity of both, weather stripping your home might be worth […]...

Robin Bornoff's Blog

Top 7 FloTHERM V11 Features – #1: Joule Heating
Published. September 17, 2015

FloTHERM V11 is now released and contains a wealth of interesting and useful features. In this blog series I’ll select my favourite top 7 and explain each one in some detail. To start with, Joule heating, also know as resistive or Ohmic heating. Joule heating is the power lost to heat as electrical current flows […]...

Chris A. Ciufo on All Things Embedded

What’s the Nucleus of Mentor’s Push into Industrial Automation?
Published. February 14, 2015

Mentor’s once nearly-orphaned Nucleus RT forms the foundation of a damned impressive software suite for controlling meat packing or nuclear power plants. Industry 4.0 is basically the promise of interoperability between currently bespoke (and proprietary) I.A. systems with smart, connected IoT devices plus a layer of cyber security thrown in. Continue reading →...

Analog Insights

AMS HSPICE SIG dinner during DesignCon 2015: Best-in-class techniques and solutions for Power and Signal Integrity analysis
Published. January 15, 2015

Happy Thursday, I just wanted to remind our dear Synopsys HSPICE users (and other AMS aficionados..) about our yearly HSPICE SIG event. This event has grown other the years and present each year topics related to circuit simulation challenges. Because HSPICE combines transistor-level accuracy with comprehensive signal integrity analysis, and is the golden reference for […]...

Branden Williams' Security Coverage Blog

The Role of Evidence-Based Management
Published. October 28, 2014

Evidence-Based Management (EBMgt) is a topic growing in popularity in both the academic and professional worlds for a number of reasons. We’ve never had access to the volume of data that we do today coupled with the processing power available to make sense of it. In addition, we’ve learned that while hunches give us a […]...

Why the Demand for Acceleration and Emulation is Growing
Published. February 14, 2011

The dream of any marketer is a growing demand for its product line. Let me start this blog by quoting the System Realization (part of the Cadence EDA360 strategy) section from the transcript of the recent (Q4) Cadence earnings call. "In April (2010), we introduced the Verification Computing Platform, enabling emulation, acceleration, and simulation all on one single platform. Customers who are designing SoCs at 40nm and below find this product necessary to meet the time-to-market and quality...

Jim Trudeau << The Embedded Beat

MQX Lite is a heavy-weight hitter
Published. October 8, 2012

By Jim Trudeau – The buzz around the Kinetis L series microcontroller (MCU) is really exciting. It combines the low-power, low-cost and ease-of-use of 8-bit, with the energy-efficiency, feature integration and scalability of 32-bit. My colleague Erich Styger wrote about the Freescale Freedom development platform, which is enabled by Kinetis L series KL1 and KL2 MCUs families. The platform […]...

Fleet-footed FemtoPHYs – The Smallest USB 3.0 and 2.0 PHYs in the Universe
Published. April 30, 2014

Fast, Fabulous FemtoPHYs (Certified!) The BIG news this week is small.   Our team built the tiny USB 3.0 and USB 2.0 femtoPHY  to save power and area.  50% less area than the previous generation picoPHY.  AND CERTIFIED by the USB-IF At a 50% smaller size, to me it’s like: Being able to eat the same […]...

Magic Blue Smoke

Low Power Static Checks
Published. August 12, 2010

There seem to be some confusion about types of checks that need to be performed on a Low Power Design. In the Low Power static check world, following 3 types of analysis can be done on a design, in addition to various other checks. (a) Critique Check     Power State Table is Golden here and […]...

Multi-programmable non-volatile memory on standard 40-nm CMOS
Published. April 17, 2013

A wide range of wireless SoCs supporting near field communication (NFC), Bluetooth, 802.11, and other radio applications can reduce both system power and cost by integrating multiple time programmable (MTP) non-volatile memory (NVM) on-chip. The MTP NVM can be used for field updatable lookup tables (for routing NFC packets), device matching (in the case of […]...

Conversation Central

Harnessing and Harvesting the Power of Social Media
Published. January 28, 2014

Guest: Eric Nystrom, Director, Social Media, Dell Host: Yvette Huygen, Director Worldwide Public Relations and Corporate Communications, Synopsys Inc. If your browser doesn’t support Flash, click here to download the show and play it locally. The social media revolution has rapidly taken over the business world.  Companies are striving to create social media strategies that work […]...

4G LTE vs. 3G Power Mystery Explained
Published. August 9, 2012

  Last month we saw some interesting data in our investigation of energy efficiency of 4G LTE transmission versus 3G transmission on the new iPad. The data above suggests that in 4G LTE mode, the new iPad used roughly the same amount of energy (3.8Wh) for viewing our test movie (Star Trek, 2:06:46, 138MB) locally […]...

Comment on Facebook Blocked My Posts — But Why? by Shing Wu
Published. May 18, 2014

Facebook are completely full of crap and you really should not be giving them so much power over your social like and personal interactions with other human beings. If you do then your basically making Facebook the God of your life. Sad.....

The Moth

Attend my Tech Ed 2014 session: Debugging Tips and Tricks
Published. May 6, 2014

Just a week away, at Tech Ed 2014 NA in Houston Texas, I will be giving a demo presentation that you will not want to miss (assuming you code in Visual Studio). Add it to your calendar now: DEV-B352 Debugging Tips and Tricks in Visual Studio 2013 (link) Monday, May 12 1:15-2:30 PM, Room: General Assembly C As a developer, regardless of your programming language or the platform that you target, you use the debugger on a daily basis. Come to this all-demo session to learn how to make the...

EDA Blog

Flower Technology and EnSilica collaborate on ASIC mining solutions for cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin
Published. April 17, 2014

Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies that are based on scrypt hashing algorithms (Lifecoin, Auroracoin, Dogecoin, and Mastercoin) are on the rise. Scrypt-based cryptocurrency ASIC mining solution start-up Flower Technologies and eSi-RISC soft processor core and encryption and peripherals company EnSilica have partnered to develop the Orchid, which boasts high hashing speed, energy efficiency, and price/performance for […]...

Gabe On EDA

Synopsys's ESL Power Analysis
Published. March 18, 2014

Pat Sheridan, Sr. PMM for Synopsys Platform Architect Rich Collins, Sr. PMM ARC Processors and Subsystems In response to my question: "What tools or methods do architects and developers have or should have to define a realistic power budget at the system level?" Pat and Rich offered the following article. read more...

Urban Work Bench

Ice Pigging
Published. November 25, 2013

This post is not about farm animal rights, or some cruel porcine-based Japanese reality TV game-show. Check out the video above for a glimpse of the power of a technology recently introduced into the North American Market from the UK. It’s not hard to see from the video above that the pipes are getting cleaned […]This post was written by Mike Thomas for UrbanWorkbench.com ©2006-2014.Originally posted as Ice Pigging...

New Capabilities in the C-to-Silicon Compiler 2013 Releases
Published. January 6, 2014

2013 was a banner year for high-level synthesis and C-to-Silicon Compiler in particular. We saw our customers take on over 75 new projects using C-to-Silicon, much of that coming from expanded adoption within our existing customers. These designs spanned everything from algorithm-intensive designs like image processors to control-dominated designs like H.265 and high-speed cache controllers to various mixtures such as automotive and networking applications. As part of this expansion effort, the...

Soft Talk - Multicore and Parallel Programming

The Power of Open Source
Published. December 18, 2012

Sometimes open source can be a misunderstood part of the software industry – is it made up of developers that are working for free? Or are these developers getting a free education?  Do we have any idea how many people are developing using open source? A recent article by analyst house Forrester showed that five […]...

U.S. to Investigate General Service Lamp Efficiency Standard
Published. December 20, 2013

The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has just initiated a rulemaking and data collection process focused on developing an energy efficiency standard for general service lamps (GSL). The term GSL covers a wide range of lighting technologies, including incandescent, compact fluorescent (CFLs), light-emitting diode (LED), organic light-emitting diode (OLED), and any other lamps that satisfy [...]...

Brian's Brain

Cyclone V SoC Development Kit Features Optimized Power Supply
Published. December 18, 2013

Get an optimized power design for your system with the ARM-based Cyclone V SoC Development Kit. Its Enpirion power increases power efficiency and reduces bill-of-material (BOM) costs while also saving valuable board space...

Cyclone V SoC Development Kit Features Optimized Power Supply
Published. December 18, 2013

Get an optimized power design for your system with the ARM-based Cyclone V SoC Development Kit. Its Enpirion power increases power efficiency and reduces bill-of-material (BOM) costs while also saving valuable board space...

Cyclone V SoC Development Kit Features Optimized Power Supply
Published. December 18, 2013

Get an optimized power design for your system with the ARM-based Cyclone V SoC Development Kit. Its Enpirion power increases power efficiency and reduces bill-of-material (BOM) costs while also saving valuable board space...

Cyclone V SoC Development Kit Features Optimized Power Supply
Published. December 18, 2013

Get an optimized power design for your system with the ARM-based Cyclone V SoC Development Kit. Its Enpirion power increases power efficiency and reduces bill-of-material (BOM) costs while also saving valuable board space...

Cyclone V SoC Development Kit Features Optimized Power Supply
Published. December 18, 2013

Get an optimized power design for your system with the ARM-based Cyclone V SoC Development Kit. Its Enpirion power increases power efficiency and reduces bill-of-material (BOM) costs while also saving valuable board space...

FPGA Blog

Xilinx and Alpha Data Announce Collaboratively Developed FPGA Acceleration Networking Processing Board
Published. December 2, 2013

Alpha Data’s ADM-PCIE-7V3 FPGA processing card uses a Xilinx-7 FPGA for a power-efficient, high-performance acceleration. The card is targeted to increasing data throughput optimizing computing cluster performance for data center applications. Read more Xilinx and Alpha Data Announce Collaboratively Developed FPGA Acceleration Networking Processing BoardTwitter @fpgablog : : Free Publications : : Jobs : : […]...

Maximum Power Point Conversion for Solar Applications – Training Opp
Published. January 7, 2012

From: http://www.em.avnet.com/evs/home/0,1707,RID%253D0%2526CID%253D50625%2526CCD%253DUSA%2526SID%253D32214%2526DID%253DDF2%2526LID%253D32233%2526BID%253DDF2%2526CTP%253DEVS,00.html Register today to have an Avnet representative contact you to schedule this On-Ramp Technical Session. Microchip has created a solution that allows a product to get the maximum power out of a solar panel to power a remote application. The Maximum Power Point Converter (MPPC) is essentially a DC-to-DC converter. The DC...

Law & Life: Silicon Valley

Powerful Combination for the Future of Computing: FOSS and Cloud
Published. November 14, 2013

The Open Source Summit in Hong Kong last week demonstrates the power of the open source methodology and the OpenStack community. The Summit was the first OpenStack Foundation conference outside of the United States and attracted over 3,000 attendees from over 50 countries (significantly more than the Summit in Portland). OpenStack has grown [...]...

Kiran Bulusu’s Blog

How do you launch a hardware startup?
Published. August 28, 2013

This is a repost of my  answer on Quora . Whether its hardware or software or any product, spend lot of time and energy in customer development . Finding out what users want and think they will pay for is more critical than what we think will be cool for them. Since HW involves lot of capital, […]Related Posts:Personalization of Silicon and need for Design Flow…Framework For Creating An Hardware Startup For EE StudentsStartups: Applying lean methodology and business model…Startup...

The Java Posse

Java Posse #426
Published. August 4, 2013

Roundup ‘13 - Teaching and Mentoring Fully formatted shownotes can always be found at http://javaposse.com Special thanks to D.J. Hagberg and Peter Pilgrim for the excellent show notes for this session. Creating curruculum on GitHub for examples - short, small Coursera Pair Programming LaTeX Beamer Write the code first for examples Presentation Patterns - Book Herding Racehorses & Racing Sheep - Dave Thomas presentation Edward Tufte - separate presentations from a "read-ahead"...

Accelerating Time to Market with ARM Software Development Tools and the Cadence System Development Suite
Published. June 4, 2013

In one of the Monday presentations at the Cadence DAC Theater, Ronan Synnott from ARM talked about how ARM Software Development Tools such as DS-5 interact with the Cadence System Development Suite. I thought it would be good to provide a more detailed example of how DS-5 interacts with the Cadence Virtual System Platform.Some time ago, we decided that Eclipse was the best infrastructure to build our software development environment for VSP. Today's DAC presentation by Ronan and this more detailed...

Why can’t I get enough current out of this battery charger IC?
Published. March 18, 2013

With the increasing popularity of portable devices, demands on rechargeable batteries have driven the growth of its surrounding electronics, such as battery protection IC  and battery charger IC. Battery capacity below 500 mAh is a popular category for small form factor products.  In such applications, LDO (low drop out) regulator based architecture is often used [...]...

Joel on Software

Town Car Version Control
Published. March 12, 2013

The team at Fog Creek is releasing a major new version of Kiln today. Kiln is a distributed version control system. One of the biggest new features is Kiln Harmony, which lets you operate on Kiln repositories using either Git or Mercurial. So you can push changes to a Kiln repo using Git and then pull them using Mercurial. This means that you never have to decide whether you want to use Git or Mercurial. Religious war: averted. But, I’m getting ahead of myself! For those of you that have been...

DVCon 2013: Functional Verification Is EDA’s “Killer App”
Published. March 11, 2013

With another year of record attendance, DVCon has again proven that a functional verification-focused mix of trade show and technical conference is what customers need to get their jobs done.  Here are some of the some of the highlights I took away from this informative event:DVCon 2013 was a one stop shop for panels, papers, posters,live demos, and tutorials on functional verification* Great panels on Verification Planning and Drastically Improving D&VTwo panels at the conference provided valuable...

Dana Gardner's BriefingsDirect

Cloud, mobile adding value to Agile development methods, even in bite-sized chunks
Published. March 8, 2013

Agile software development is increasingly enabling developers to better create applications that meet user needs quickly, and the advent of increased mobile apps development is further accelerating its power....

GreenTech Pastures

Mainstreaming our green technology coverage
Published. February 28, 2013

For future news about data center efficiency, energy management software and other cleantech issues, consult ZDNet's core topic and news blogs. It's always on our mind....

CEA Digital Dialogue

Industry Makes Progress on Set-Top Box Energy Conservation
Published. February 25, 2013

CEA, National Cable & Telecommunications Association works to create savings for American consumers....

Ed Burnette's Dev Connection

On the road to Google I/O 2012
Published. June 26, 2012

Ed wishes fervently for the invention of the matter-energy transporter. Or at least a first class ticket....

Sandro Groganz, Open Source Marketing Consultant

Emotional Branding in Open Source
Published. July 17, 2012

The power of a brand lies in its ability to communicate core product attributes to consumers and evoke an emotional reaction from them. Every marketer knows that emotions can drive purchase decisions and so, a brand that is able to Continue reading →...

BCL Team Blog

Overriding part registration conventions with the MEF attributes [Nick]
Published. November 3, 2011

This post discusses features in the preview version of MEF, and some details may change between now and the full release. One of the big advances made in the new MEF preview is a convention-driven programming model aimed at eliminating repetitive attribute usage. In this new model, the MEF attributes like Export and Import have a new role as the clean and powerful mechanism for overriding the registration conventions. Configuration by exception The power in convention-driven rules is that they require...

“Fight the Power!” – No, “Fight the Energy!”
Published. September 30, 2011

For years I have observed a simple confusion between power and energy leading designers to jump to odd conceptions about design alternatives. Power consumption is expressed in units such as milliWatts (mW) consumed over some suitably short interval of time.  To quote our modern oracle, Wikipedia, In its technical sense, power is not at all [...]...

Webinar: SOI Gives More Performance Per Watt, And There's An Easy Path
Published. August 20, 2010

If you've seen any of the recent buzz lately around Silicon-On-Insulator (SOI), you'd know that it's an excellent option that can enable you to meet lower power consumption and die area targets without sacrificing performance or functionality. This is why Cadence, ARM and IBM have partnered to provide you an easy path to silicon with the SOI process for your digital design, including production proven software, design kits and IP.   If you're a design manager or engineer, and...

India Needs Real-World Assertions Too
Published. November 18, 2011

I've just returned from a week-long trip to India, spending most of my time at the Cadence R&D center in Noida. I was last there a year ago for our CDNLive! India 2010 event, a great show that prompted me to write a glowing blog post. This year's show was covered admirably by my colleague Joe Hupcey, which was fine with me since traveling to India twice in three weeks would be tough even for us seasoned road warriors. This time my focus was strictly on product development and deployment,...

PST Verification – Best Practices
Published. February 4, 2013

When I see around most common electronic devices I find are smartphones, tablets, laptops, televisions. One of the common user need which drives competition among these devices is to conserve battery life and at the same time save/restore the application. From the semiconductor perspective, requirement is translated to “designs should be using advanced low power [...]...

AMD Delivers on Holiday Wish Lists: From Gaming to PCs!
Published. November 16, 2012

With the holidays fast approaching, consumer electronics are on many gift lists. In fact, according to the Consumer Electronics Association , three in four gift-giving adults plan to buy a consumer-electronics product as a gift. From more brilliant graphics when gaming to longer battery life when on the go, AMD-powered products let people do more every day by providing superior computing experiences. Continue reading...