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- Supply-Chain Solution Cuts Costs 15 Percent, Boosts Customer Service for ASIC Maker
- ASIC manufacturer Open-Silicon needed a better way to track yields. So, it turned to an integrated financial and supply-chain management solution from Microsoft Gold Certified Partner Tensoft. The solution, including Microsoft Dynamics GP and Tensoft Fabless Semiconductor Management, reduces costs by up to 15 percent or more, gives customers visibility...
- Tags: Supply Chain, Customer Service, Microsoft Corp., SCM, Supply Chain Management (SCM), ASICs, Enterprise Software, Software, Semiconductors, Hardware
- Case studies 2008-05-19
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Design Alternatives for a High-Performance Self-Securing Ethernet Network Interface
- This paper presents and evaluates a strategy for integrating the Snort network intrusion detection system into a high-performance programmable Ethernet Network Interface Card NIC, considering the impact of several possible hardware and software design choices. While currently proposed ASIC, FPGA, and TCAM systems can match incoming string content in real-time,...
- Tags: Snort, High-performance, Ethernet, Leadership, ASICs, Intrusion Detection, Networking, Management, Semiconductors, Hardware, Security
- White papers 2007-01-26
- Understanding QoS Processing in OmniSwitch 9000 and OmniSwitch 6850
- The use of a converged network to support multiple applications including voice and video necessitates the need to define QoS treatment for different classes of traffic. The network infrastructure elements are the key components for enforcing the QoS traffic processing defined by the network infrastructure. This paper describes the key...
- Tags: QoS, Network, OmniSwitch, Network Infrastructure Element, ASICs, Semiconductors, Hardware
- White papers 2006-11-01
- 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
- SA Report Series for FortiGate (exe)
- 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, Vincent Chen, SA Report Series 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
- Behavioral Model of UHF RFID Tag for System and Application Level Simulation
- This paper presents a model of an UHF RFID tag for system and application level simulation. The prime focus is on the radio frequency link. The model describes carrier frequency dependent behavior based on the envelope signal description with the value of the carrier frequency being time invariant parameter. The...
- Tags: IEEE, Background Idea, ASICs, Semiconductors, Hardware
- White papers 2005-10-23
- 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
- Stateful Inspection Firewall Session Table Processing
- Stateful Inspection is a key technology to network devices such as routers and firewalls. Existing session table architectures of Stateful Inspection devices store all session information in a single entry, which causes high time cost of session table timeout processing. This paper presents a new architecture which divides a session...
- Tags: Session, Stateful Inspection, PATRICIA Algorithm, Firewalls, ASICs, Engineering, Network Security, Networking, Semiconductors, Hardware
- White papers 2005-06-23
- ASIC Implementation of a MIMO-OFDM Transceiver for 192 Mbps WLANs
- Next generation Wireless Local Area Networks WLANs such as the IEEE 802.11n standard are expected to rely on multiple antennas at both transmitter and receiver to increase throughput and link reliability. However, these improvements come at a significant increase in signal processing and hence hardware complexity compared to existing single-antenna...
- Tags: ETH Zurich, MIMO-OFDM, ASICs, Wireless LANs, LANs, Wi-Fi, Wireless, Semiconductors, Hardware, Networking
- White papers 2005-05-10
- Decoding Convolutional and Turbo Codes in 3G Wireless
- Decoding of forward error correcting FEC codes is the most computationally intensive part of symbol-rate processing in a basestation receiver and could consume up to 90% of computing resources. This is true for both second generation (2G) and third generation (3G) systems. This paper compares three different implementation options for...
- Tags: Texas Instruments Inc., 3G, Cellular Phones, ASICs, Wireless, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Semiconductors, Hardware
- White papers 2005-01-01
- FPGA to ASIC Conversions Design Guidelines
- The White paper discusses the reasons to convert your field-programmable gate array FPGA design to an application-specific integrated circuit ASIC. It mentions about the benefits of conversion. It also states the requirement for such a conversion.
- Tags: NEC Corp., FPGA, Conversion, ASICs, Semiconductors, Hardware
- White papers 2002-04-01
- 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
- FocalPoint in Large-Scale Clos Switches: A New Silicon Generation Enables a New Datacenter Switching Paradigm
- A transformation is occurring in the area of data center switching. Multi-layer switching solutions that currently dominate enterprise and service provider datacenter networks are complex designs with a number of separate ASICs, each carrying out a specialized segment of the overall switching function. These complex switch architectures may use separate...
- Tags: Data Center, Fulcrum Microsystems, Data Centers, ASICs, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Semiconductors
- White papers 2007-10-01
- 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
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