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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
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
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
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
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
The Evolution of Build-Up Package Technology and Its Design Challenges: This paper reviews Sequential Build-Up (SBU) laminate substrate development from its beginning in 1988. These laminated substrates are nonuniform structures composed of three elements: a core, build-up layers, and finishing layers. Each element has evolved to meet the demands of packaging applications. Thin-film processing has greatly enhanced the wiring capability...; Tags: Substrate, IBM Corp., ASICs, Leadership, Semiconductors, Hardware, Management; White papers 2005-09-09
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
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
The Force10 E-Series Architecture: The Force10 E-Series provides the unmatched scalability, line-rate performance, and full L2 switching and L3 routing functionality essential for today's most demanding network applications. The Force10 E-Series architecture reliably delivers these capabilities to the E-Series at never-before-realized price/performance ratios. To provide this unprecedented combination of power and economy, the E-Series...; Tags: Force10 Networks Inc., Force10 E-Series, ASICs, Semiconductors, Networking, Hardware; White papers 2005-03-01
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
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
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
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
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
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