TechRepublic Resources
- ACT: A Cluster Co-Processor for 3G Baseband Wireless
- Architectures for wireless systems have traditionally been designed to meet real-time requirements, t on a limited die area, and operate within a low power budget. These conditions are usually met by implementing compute-intensive operations in an Application Specific Integrated Circuit (ASIC). ASIC design is both expensive and time consuming. ASICs...
- Tags: Integrated Circuit, 3G, ASICs, Semiconductors, Wireless, Hardware
- White papers
- The Programmable Logic Solution to Energy Consumption Challenges in Portable Electronics
- Emerging wireless and mass storage technologies such as Wi-Fi and Miniature Hard Disk Drives (HDD) are converging in portable electronics. Adopting these new features can have a significant impact on battery life. PolarPro FPGAs were specifically architected to enable the adoption of these technologies while minimizing energy consumption. The PolarPro...
- Tags: QuickLogic Corp., Electronics, PolarPro Family, ASICs, Engineering, Storage, Semiconductors, Hardware
- Webcasts
- Test Setup for CDMA Protocol Stack
- The client is a leading management, systems and technology consulting firm working for a Mobile Infrastructure company. CDMA 2000 defines a complete protocol & air interface for wireless communication. The stack functionalities are typically implemented on ASIC as this kind of capability is difficult to be achieved in a programmable...
- Tags: CDMA, Client, CDMA 2000, ASICs, 3G, Cellular Phones, Wireless, Semiconductors, Hardware, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology
- Case studies
- InterDigital Chooses Telelogic Tau for UMTS Development
- InterDigital, located in King of Prussia, Pennsylvania, USA, is a leading-edge company focused on developing wireless technology solutions for third generation products. InterDigital has built a system-on-chip ASIC utilizing advanced sub-micron technology in a partnership with Texas Instruments and it will apply this expertise to its 3G system-on-a-chip (SoC) solution....
- Tags: UMTS, Telelogic, InterDigital, 3G, ASICs, Wireless, Cellular Phones, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Semiconductors, Hardware
- Case studies
- RapidChip Technology Boosts IPWireless UMTS TDD Market Leadership
- The Universal Mobile Telecommunications System Time-Division Duplexing (UMTS TDD) market is growing rapidly, and IPWireless, Inc., headquartered in San Bruno, CA, is at the pinnacle as market leader. The big drivers were protecting their IP, cost and power reduction. Also maintaining a small form factor and shrinking board real estate...
- Tags: LSI Logic Corp., UMTS, Leadership, IPWireless, ASICs, Cellular Phones, Semiconductors, Hardware, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology
- Case studies
- Consolidating on AMD Opteron-Based ProLiant Servers Cuts Licensing Costs, Boosts Performance
- HP's application-specific integrated circuit (ASIC) design teams - early adopters of Linux-based electronic design automation (EDA) software and industry-standard servers for 32-bit applications - develop and test ASICs for use in HP ProLiant industry-standard servers. The initial lack of 64-bit Linux and 64-bit industry-standard servers forced the group to retain...
- Tags: HP Compaq ProLiant Server, Hewlett-Packard Co., Performance, AMD Opteron, Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Electronic Design Automation, HP Compaq ProLiant, ASICs, Linux, Servers, Processors, Semiconductors, Hardware, Operating Systems, Software, Components
- Case studies
- Intel Case Study: IDT PAX.Port 2500 Content Inspection Engine (CIE) and Intel IXP2400 Network Processor
- Content inspection being the primary role of security solutions, it has become a serious performance bottleneck, subject to growing pressure from an ever-increasing volume of network traffic and the evolving complexity of risks. To increase overall throughput, designers typically use custom ASICs or combine several processors in a single system....
- Tags: IDT Corp., Intel Corp., ASICs, Performance Management, Processors, Security, Semiconductors, Hardware, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Components
- Case studies
- Intel Case Study: NetScaler Inc.
- NetScaler's 9000 Series family of application delivery systems combine the crucial components of application optimization and security with robust switching capabilities on a single unified platform. To overcome the design challenges of building this multi-functional platform, NetScaler developers sought off-the-shelf hardware components that would complement the company's sophisticated kernel-level Request...
- Tags: NetScaler, Intel Corp., ASICs, Processors, Servers, Semiconductors, Hardware, Components
- Case studies
- Design and Implementation of Turbo Decoders for Software Defined Radio
- Software Defined Radio (SDR) is an emerging paradigm for wireless terminals, in which the physical layer of communication protocols is implemented in software rather than by ASICs. Many of the current and next generation wireless protocols include Turbo coding because of its superior performance. However, Turbo decoding is computationally intensive,...
- Tags: Software, DSP, University Of Michigan, Radio, Wireless, Turbo, Software Defined Radio, ASICs, Tools & Techniques, Semiconductors, Hardware, Management
- White papers
- Optimal Decoupling Capacitor Sizing and Placement for Standard Cell Layout Designs
- With technology scaling, the trend for high performance integrated circuits is towards ever higher operating frequency, lower power supply voltages and higher power dissipation. This causes a dramatic increase in the currents being delivered through the on-chip power grid and is recognized in the 2001 International Technology Roadmap for Semiconductors...
- Tags: High-performance, Capacitor, Power Supply, Cell, ASICs, Leadership, Telecom & Utilities, Semiconductors, Hardware, Management
- White papers
- Intel demos single-chip software radio for WiMAX, Wi-Fi, and DVB-H digital TV
- Intel has developed a software-defined radio that can handle Wi-Fi, WiMAX, and DVB-H digital TV all in one chip. The problem it addresses is that of too many radios, according to system architect Jeff Hoffman. The idea is that this one-chip solution will connect to Wi-Fi...
- Tags: Software, DVB-H, Idea, Radio, Intel Corp., Chip, WiMAX, ASICs, Wireless LANs, Wi-Fi, Wireless, Semiconductors, Network Technology, Hardware, Networking, Paul Mah
- Blog posts 2007-12-12
- Statistical Static Timing Analysis Technology
- With CMOS technology scaling down to the nanometer realm, process variations have been increased. In particular, the increase of delay variations has seriously affected the design periods and timing yields. To estimate more accurately these delay variations, Statistical Static Timing Analysis (SSTA), which considers delay variations statistically, has been proposed....
- Tags: Fujitsu Ltd., Variation, Analysis, Statistical Static Timing Analysis, ASICs, Semiconductors, Hardware
- White papers 2007-10-01
- [CommuniAsia 2007] Crecendo's Maestro: One box, a million Web clients
- Further to my trip down to CommunicAsia 2007, this is the first of several reports I am working on pertaining to products that caught my attention. I have learned much, and I certainly hope you will be able to gain something from my write-ups as well. ...
- Tags: Web Server, Web, Crecendo, Web Servers, Channel Management, ASICs, Servers, Internet, Marketing, Semiconductors, Hardware, Paul Mah
- Blog posts 2007-06-20
- Satisfying the Demand for Rapid Feature Enhancement in Consumer Display Products
- Developers of consumer display products (i.e., High-Definition TeleVisions (HDTVs), monitors, and projectors) face a daunting design challenge. The Application-Specific Standard Products (ASSPs) that have been used in these products historically are built with custom ASIC development cycles, typically three to five years. However, the consumer market demands new products and...
- Tags: Developer, Altera Corp., Product, HDTV, ASICs, TVs, Chipsets, Tv & Home Theater, Semiconductors, Hardware, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Components
- White papers 2007-03-01
- Video and Image Processing Design Using FPGAs
- In this paper, the authors will look at the trends in video and image processing that are forcing developers to re-examine the architectures they have used in the past. This paper will discuss the tradeoffs of different architectures and conclude with details and benchmarks for Altera's new solutions in this...
- Tags: Altera Corp., Video, Image Processing, FPGA, ASICs, Corporate Communications, Semiconductors, Hardware, Marketing
- White papers 2007-03-01
- Truly Parallel Processing and Dramatic Application Speed-Up With SGI RASC Technology
- Application specific acceleration using hardware methods is not new to computing or to SGI. Technologies such as Digital Signal Processors (DSPs) or custom ASICs have been deployed in several HPC application areas. For example, SGI Origin 2000 and 3000 systems tightly integrated MIPS processors along with the SGI Tensor Processing...
- Tags: Parallel Processing, Silicon Graphics Inc., ASICs, Government, Processors, Semiconductors, Hardware, Components
- White papers 2006-03-13
- Areca Moves Product Line to Intel XScale Microarchitecture
- Areca has committed its entire research and development effort to disk array/RAID technologies that yield faster performance, better reliability, and lower costs than competitive solutions. To this end, Areca chooses the best available components - previously a combination of third-party storage processors and proprietary ASICs. While this strategy yields Areca's...
- Tags: R&D, Intel XScale, Areca, Research & Development, ASICs, Handhelds, Business Operations, Semiconductors, Hardware
- Case studies 2005-10-01
- Deterministic Parallel Processing
- In order to address the problems faced in the wireless communications domain, picoChip has devised the picoArray. The picoArray is a tiled-processor architecture, containing several hundred heterogeneous processors, connected through a novel, compile-time scheduled interconnect. This architecture does not suffer from many of the problems faced by conventional general purpose...
- Tags: Device, Parallel Processing, picoChip Designs, picoArray, PC102, ASICs, Processors, Wi-Fi, Wireless, Semiconductors, Hardware, Components
- White papers 2005-06-28
- SA Report Series for FortiGate (1)
- SA Report Series software provides comprehensive security analysis report, with FortiGate protection; give you more secure information environment and easier management. Re-experience your ASIC device with our software now. This software come with the following features real-time console, comprehensive report, cross platform, support multiple DBMS, and internationalization.
- Tags: Software, ASICs, Tools & Techniques, Semiconductors, Hardware, Management
- Software downloads 2006-03-01
- ACT: A Low Power VLIW Cluster Coprocessor for DSP Applications
- The ACT (Adaptive Cellular Telephony) coprocessor architecture is described and analyzed using a set of widely used DSP algorithms. Performance and power are compared to equivalent implementations on ASIC and embedded processor platforms. Flexibility is achieved by fine-grain program control of communication and execution resources. Compression techniques, simple addressing modes...
- Tags: DSP, Coprocessor, VLIW, Flexibility, University Of Utah, ASICs, Processors, Semiconductors, Hardware, Components
- White papers 2006-01-20
