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SOC Design: April 2005
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Wednesday, April 27, 2005. RAW deal duel of the digicam file formats. Consequently, every digicam vendor that makes cameras with RAW file capability must offer a proprietary RAW converter program so that their RAW images can be converted to the standard file formats at some point. In addition, vendors of image-editing and image-manipulation programs such as Adobe, Bibble Labs, and DxO offer their own homegrown RAW converters, but not for every camera. Posted by Steve Leibson at 9:07 AM. This month, two r...
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SOC Design: August 2005
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Tuesday, August 30, 2005. More on Multicore Design. Market research firm IDC in Framingham, Massachusetts has declared that IC design using multiple processor cores may be one of the most significant industry developments of the past 40 years. The IDC study is called " Multicore Processing Scenarios, 2005-2009: Disrupting the IT Market in Three Generations? Posted by Steve Leibson at 1:10 PM. Monday, August 29, 2005. Two cores, four cores, eight cores, and so on. Finally, adding more processor cores to a...
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SOC Design: June 2008
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Thursday, June 12, 2008. This blog has moved. A year ago, I moved this blog to http:/ www.edn.com/blog/980000298.html. To get a wider audience and to sidestep blogspam. See you there! Posted by Steve Leibson at 8:58 PM. RSS subscribers, please click on the above logo. An eclectic look at topics of interest to people involved in the design, development, and business of SOCs and ASICs. View my complete profile. History of the HP 9825. This blog has moved. CES Update: The Revolution Will be Televised.
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SOC Design: January 2006
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Saturday, January 07, 2006. CES Update: The Revolution Will be Televised. The revolution will not be televised, will not be televised,. Will not be televised, will not be televised. The revolution will be no re-run brothers;. The revolution will be live. Both the mobile handsets and the Sling box need to reformat video to fit a target playback device that clearly isn't a conventional television receiver. Their ability to reformat images must satisfy three conflicting goals. The video should look good.
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SOC Design: May 2005
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Friday, May 06, 2005. Go to the Processor Forum, now! Anyone working on SOC development needs to know about the latest advances in processor technology and design. The place to get a concentrated dose of processor education is the upcoming Spring Processor Forum. Held in San Jose at the Doubletree Hotel this year on May 16-19. Go sign up. Tell 'em Steve sent you. Posted by Steve Leibson at 4:57 PM. Wim Roelandts: ASICs will never die. Posted by Steve Leibson at 1:38 PM. Posted by Steve Leibson at 9:08 AM.
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SOC Design: December 2005
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Thursday, December 15, 2005. ST backs NOC for SOC design productivity. ST says an effective NoC architecture will be a crucial precondition for cost-effective SoCs targeted at convergence devices and, in particular, NoC technology will play a major role in improving design productivity.". Posted by Steve Leibson at 9:52 AM. Earlier this week, EDN.com published an article I wrote about networks on chip (NOCs) called " NOC, NOC, NOCing on Heaven's Door. Posted by Steve Leibson at 9:41 AM. Pun of the day.
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SOC Design: October 2005
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Thursday, October 06, 2005. In an October 5 article, EE Times' editor Dylan McGrath writes. There is a widespread misconception about the current size and strength of the Chinese fabless semiconductor industry, according to Lung Chu, president of the Asia Pacific region for Cadence Design Systems Inc. Chu said total revenue for Chinese fabless companies in 2004 was less than $1 billion and that most of the companies' designs are 0.18 micron or 0.25 micron.". As a country, China has proven many times over...
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SOC Design: March 2005
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Tuesday, March 29, 2005. Designers don't always put their talents to good uses. Case in point: Gauri Nanda, a research associate at the MIT Media Lab and her invention, Clocky. An autonomous mobile alarm clock. When it's time to wake up, Clocky's buzzer goes off like any self-respecting alarm clock. However, to prevent you from hitting the snooze button, rolling over, and going back to sleep, Clocky jumps off your night table and hides, while still beeping incessantly. Posted by Steve Leibson at 9:28 AM.
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SOC Design: July 2005
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Friday, July 15, 2005. Another job Al had in that era was to linearize some signals. Al told me it was pretty tough to do this back then. All he had to work with was resistors, capacitors, diodes, and discrete transistors. However, is Al's situation still funny when you're using the same SOC design techniques that you used 10 years ago? Posted by Steve Leibson at 2:50 PM. To infinity and beyond! The title quote is from Buzz Lightyear but the topic of this post is David Lammer's cover article. On 65nm pro...
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SOC Design: February 2007
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Tuesday, February 20, 2007. Last week, I attended the debut of what may become the first commercial quantum computer. Or not. The EDN article I wrote about this demonstration is here: http:/ www.edn.com/article/CA6416905.html? D-Wave, the company that has been developing this quantum hardware for eight years, used the Computer History Museum. Posted by Steve Leibson at 9:57 PM. RSS subscribers, please click on the above logo. Formerly editor-in-chief of the Microprocessor Report, EDN Magazine, and the Em...
