White Papers
February - 2010
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- Software Defined Radio Handbook
SDR (Software Defined Radio) has revolutionized electronic systems for a variety of applications including communications, data acquisition and signal processing. This handbook shows how DDCs (Digital Downconverters) and DUCs (Digital Upconverters), the fundamental building blocks of SDR, can replace conventional analog receiver designs, offering significant benefits in performance, density and cost.
- Whitepaper on Stride and Prefetch feature in ISA 2.06
POWER stands for Performance Optimization with Enhanced RISC. Power architecture is synonymous with performance. Introduced by IBM in 1991, POWER1 was a superscalar design that implemented register renaming andout-of-order execution.
- What is New in the Server Environment of Power ISA v2.06?
The Power ISA evolved out of IBM’s POWER and later PowerPC architectures. The first version of the Power ISA – v2.03, taken largely from PowerPC v2.02 and PowerPC Book E v1.9, was released in 2006.
- Cell Processor Technical Specifications
The Cell/B.E.™ resource center is a good starting point for developers looking for information about IBM Cell/B.E. technology-based software.
January - 2010
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- What is New in the Server Environment of Power ISA v2.06??
Whitepaper - What is New in the Server Environment of Power ISA v2.06??Additions and Enhancements to the Power ISA v2.06 extend the advantages of the Power Architecture ranging from
- Enabling Interoperability in High-Per formance Embedded Applications - An OpenVPX System Specification Primer
With the advent of high-speed serial fabrics, the VME Parallel Bus proved insufficient for the needs of higherperformance embedded systems. VPX, also known as VITA 46, is the follow-on to the VME Specification for the next generation of high-speed interconnects for harsh environments.
- MontaVista Linux Carrier Grade Edition
Communications networks are very different from other kinds of computing applications. Networks require both very high reliability and very high performance. Not only must they process large volumes of data at high speed, but they must do so while limiting their downtime to minutes per year.
November - 2009
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- A New Approach to Verifying and Validating Medical Device Development
The list of features in medical devices is rapidly rising: Even the simplest of medical devices—such as diagnostic and monitoring systems—house more and more system components, which add greater functionality to the device at a low cost. But by adding components, device software becomes complex and burdens compliance testing and premarket certification activities, such as 510(k) submissions mandated by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA).
- End-use Applications for Multicore Processors: Freescale QorIQ™ Communications Platform P1, P2 and P4 Series
The newest processors in Freescale Semiconductor’s next-generation Multicore Communications Platform cover a range of applications, from low-end routers for small and medium businesses to complex network management. This paper provides details and diagrams for five example applications that can be enabled by Freescale’s QorIQ™ communications platform P1, P2 and P4 Series processors.
- Hypervisors Thrive with Power Architecture
In concert with the inexorable demand for increasingly sophisticated functionality in embedded systems, semiconductor designers and systems software providers are creating novel methods to break through the recent flattening in Moore’s performance curve.
- Power Architecture® Wireless Access Market Differentiators
The wireless access market segment is dominated today by the realities of long-term evolution (LTE). Many companies are strongly committed to LTE and believe that it offers simplified technology, better scalability, and ultimately a better user experience for next-generation mobile broadband.
- Power Architecture® Leadership at Glance
Thanks to the fast pace of technological innovations there has been an explosion of voice and video applications that allow consumers to stream content not only to their PCs, but also to smart phones, Mobile Internet Devices and gaming consoles.
- Virtualization for Embedded Power Architecture CPUs
Technology innovations are continuously impact the Internet, applications, and services. Internet traffic is rapidly expanding and becoming more varied and complex, with an explosion in voice and video applications.
- Demystifying DO-254
Interest in DO-254 first occurred in Europe and has since spread to the US commercial aircraft industry. If you are being asked about your company’s DO-254 direction and compliance, but have been overwhelmed with information on the subject, then this article is for you.
October - 2009
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- Evolving the Coverage-driven Verification Flow
Verification methodology has undergone dramatic changes over the past decade. The realization that larger and more-complex designs required more and more verification effort, coupled with shrinking schedules, spawned new languages specifically tailored for verification and tools intended to make the verification process more predictable and efficient.
- Power Architecture® ISA 2.06 Stride N Prefetch Engines to Boost Applications Performance
Increasing memory latencies poses serious performance impact for workloads that are memory intensive.
- Power Consumption at 40 and 45 nm
At 40 and 45 nm process nodes, power has become the primary factor for FPGA selection.
- Accurately Analyzing Power in a Simulink Software Model-Based Design Flow
Frequency, run time, and area utilizations are widely used as benchmarking metrics to gauge quality of results (QoR) for FPGA designs and tool performance.
- Capabilities to Maximize Productivity for FPGA Debug and Verification
Whether your task is to verify the functional correctness of a design, ensure adequate timing performance, or to quickly bring up a hardware platform in the lab environment, efficient verification and debug typically requires evaluating the design from multiple perspectives—ranging from high-level functional characteristics to low-level performance details—each at different phases of the design flow.
- TI’s Medical Applications Guide
Download TI’s Medical Applications Guide to view system block diagrams for a broad range of medical applications and find device details and design resources.
September - 2009
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- Advantech’s Secure & Unified Smart Interface
Advantech’s SUSI (Secure & Unified Smart Interface) provides a set of user-friendly, intelligent and integrated interfaces, which speeds development, enhances security and offers add-on value for Advantech platforms. SUSI plays the role of catalyst between developer and solution, and makes Advantech embedded platforms easier and simpler to adopt and operate with customers’ applications.
July - 2009
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- Designing multiple PCI Express processor nodes into xTCA host systems
Limited support for multiple processor nodes within the PCI Express® fabric has presented a barrier to wider adoption of PCI Express-based systems in xTCA architectures. This paper describes how advances in configurable Processor AdvancedMC™ module technology resolve the issue in PCI-Express-based MicroTCA™ and AdvancedTCA® systems.
- Advances in Radar Processing
With radar systems, as with many military applications, it is difficult to determine whether greater processing needs are driving development of more powerful hardware and software – or whether radar systems designers have just been quick to adopt more capable hardware and easier-to-use software. Whatever the case, today’s sophisticated radar processing is reliant on three key elements. Click on the white paper link to learn about these three key elements in today’s radar processing systems.
- Open Specifications For Highly Available Mission-Critical Systems
When missions are at stake and live are on the line, operational availability of war-fighter systems is an absolute requirement. While the need to ensure availability of such systems has not changed, standards-based platforms that ensure service continuity, drive down costs and reduce schedule risks. Open specifications playing a key role in this transition are AdvancedTCA (ATCA) and those from the Service Availability Forum (SA Forum). In this session you will learn key concepts including and introduction to ATCA and SA Forum specifications, an overview of services key to ensuring continuous availability of your mission-critical application, and a look inside a real-world implementation.
- Rugged VME and CompactPCI hardware platform controls multiple unmanned aircraft
During March 2007 a series of QinetiQ research activities culminated with a Royal Air Force (RAF) pilot successfully controlling multiple unmanned aircraft from the cockpit of a Tornado military jet. For this series of flight trials, QinetiQ’s sophisticated control software was hosted on a dedicated Kontron platform comprising a mix of standard, off-the-shelf boards based on 3U CompactPCI® and VME embedded computing form factors as well as Kontron industrial servers.
- Interfacing FTDI’s FT2232H Hi-Speed Device to I²C Bus
The FT2232H and FT4232H are FTDI’s first USB 2.0 Hi-Speed (480Mbits/s) USB to UART/FIFO ICs. They can be configured in a variety of serial interfaces using the internal MPSSE (Multi-Protocol Synchronous Serial Engine). The FT2232H device has two independent ports, each can be configured using MPSSE. This application note illustrates how to use the MPSSE of the FT2232H to interface with the I2C bus. Users can use the example schematic and functional software code to begin their design.
- Minimizing Energy Usage in Battery-Powered Microcontroller Systems
Today’s portable products have conflicting requirements on the batteries that power them. More features increases energy requirements, while end users demand longer battery life, so, energy efficiency is paramount. The traditional approach to minimizing energy consumption has been to minimize current drain; however, the energy capacity of a battery is dependent upon voltage, current and time. Microcontroller-based systems powered by user-replaceable batteries can benefit from an MCU that is specifically designed to address each of these variables to achieve meaningful improvements in overall energy efficiency.
June - 2009
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- Synopsys White Paper: Understanding the real cost of prototyping hardware
This white paper provides an in depth look at significant factors to consider when choosing to develop or purchase prototyping hardware. Costs, development time, and effort are considered in detail as well as other factors such as Bill-of-materials cost, manufacturing time, and test yield. The paper also provides information on how to request a “Cost Comparison Spreadsheet” which will allow you to explore the various options and make an informed decision for your particular situation.
- Implementing ATCA Serving Gateways for LTE Networks
One key challenge of LTE is how core network components will keep up with massive increases in access link throughput (e.g., seven times HSPA data rates). How evolved core network equipment manufacturers rise to this challenge will be critical for determining subscriber satisfaction with their LTE service experiences. To focus on the challenge, this article discusses the “best practices” approach for building an ATCA Serving Gateway node, the very backbone of the LTE network user plane.
May - 2009
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- How to use the P89LPC9351 temperature sensor
The LPC9xx1 is an improved version of our existing LPC9xx 8-bit microcontroller series incorporating new features such as a temperature sensor.