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Technical Paper Newsletter 7-1-2009 Tech Paper Library Home  NEW FEATURED TECHNICAL PAPERS Texas Instruments Little Logic Application Report
Chris Cockrill et a • Texas Instruments
This application report provides in-depth analysis of each of the various TI Little Logic product families by examining performance and features, along with the variety of available package options.
Go mobile, grow...
Christian Seider et al • IBM
Mobile device makers, confronted by numerous challenges to growth and profitability, are looking to develop new avenues to expand their core device offerings.
Battery Stack Monitor Extends Life of Li-Ion Batteries in Hybrid Electric Vehicles
Michael Kultgen and Jon Munson • Linear Technology
Advancements in battery technology, especially with Lithium-based chemistries, hold the greatest promise for converting the worldwide fleet of cars to hybrid or fully electric.
Smarter system development: a systems engineering trade study to support green initiatives with model-driven development
Graham John Bleakley • IBM
This paper describes a multivariable decision problem based upon the selection of a power source for an environmentally conscious but cost-effective family-size vehicle for the U.K. marketplace.
Enabling Design Separation for High-Reliability and Information-Assurance Systems
Altera
Traditionally, system designs achieve reliability through redundancy, which leads to increased component count, logic size, system power, and cost. Altera's design separation feature meets these conflicting needs for low power, small size, and high functionality.
Five Ways ERP Can Help You Implement Lean
Dave A. Turbide • Epicor
This paper sets out to define Lean and to explain how Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) can help companies get there.
When to Use a Clock vs. an Oscillator
James Wilson • Silicon Laboratories
A wide range of timing solutions are available, including crystal oscillators (XO), voltage-controlled crystal oscillators (VCXO), and clocks. No one size fits all strategy applies when it comes to component selection.
Dual ADC Driver with Tightly Matched Gain and Phase Raises Quadrature Demodulation Performance
Kris Lokere • Linear Technology
High speed differential amplifiers help to drive high performance ADCs by providing balanced drive to the differential input stage, setting the common mode level, absorbing the sampling-energy, and taking gain to reduce the output swing requirement of preceding circuitry.
Consumer and Portable Medical Guide
Texas Instruments
The Consumer and Portable Medical Guide from TI features technical and product information for a variety of medical applications, including heart rate/fitness monitoring systems, blood glucose and other diagnostic meters, blood pressure monitors and more.
Enabling Image Format Conversion in FPGAs
Altera
Broadcast images must be converted to HD or a different resolution before they can be stored, encoded or displayed. Altera's 1080p video design framework makes it easy for system designers to create a custom image format conversion signal chain.
Integrating High Density Antifuse OTP NVM for Code Storage
Vivien Lin • Kilopass Technology
In this paper you will learn how antifuse NVM technology evolves with process scaling and its opportunities and challenges in high-density use.
Selecting the right charge-management solution
Masoud Beheshti • Texas Instruments
The designer needs to strike a balance between performance, cost, form factor, and other key requirements. This article provides an overview of several battery charge management solutions.
Motor Efficiency Depends Upon Power Factor
Actel
This white paper discusses the factors that are critical in achieving overall system power savings, taking into consideration the rectifier that conditions input power from the AC mains and the variable frequency inverter drive electronics of the motor.
A new approach to verifying and validating medical device development
Irv Badr • IBM
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.
FPGA Coprocessing Evolution: Sustained Performance Approaches Peak Performance
Mike Strickland and Martin Langhammer • Altera
FPGA architecture allows for many algorithm implementations where the sustained performance is much closer to the device's peak performance when compared to quad-core CPUs or GPGPUs.
Self-optimizing networks (SON): doing more with less
Alan Gatherer et al • Texas Instruments
This paper discusses the technology challenges carriers and equipment manufacturers face and how SON addresses them.
Critical Techniques for High Speed A/D Converters in Real-Time Systems, 4th Edition
Rodger Hosking • Pentek
Now in its 4th Edition, this handbook focuses primarily on A/D converters with sampling rates higher than 100 MHz. Sampling techniques are reviewed, as well as FPGA technology and high-speed serial fabrics.
Embedded Product Development: Model-Driven Development that leads to embedded developer productivity
IBM
EACT help clients select their reference platform, suitable approach to design project and to select firmware or OS approach for developing their embedded projects.
 HIDDEN GEMS Building Secure Software with Java
Kelvin Nilsen • Aonix

A Flexible Solution for Industrial Ethernet
Altera

Intel Industrial Control Reference Design
Intel

36V Dual 1.4A Monolithic Step-Down Converter has Start-Up Tracking and Sequencing
Keith Szolusha • Linear Devices

How the 1394 Automotive Network Simplifies Infotainment Delivery
Fujitsu Microelectronics

 WHAT'S HOT Book Excerpt: "Electrical Engineering 101" (Part 1)
Darren Ashby

Book Excerpt: "Electrical Engineering 101" (Part 2)
Darren Ashby

Book Excerpt: "Electrical Engineering 101" (Part 3)
Darren Ashby

Book Excerpt: "Electrical Engineering 101" (Part 4)
Darren Ashby

Embedded Processing Guide
Texas Instruments


Using Apache Totem for Power Noise Analysis of Analog/Mixed-Signal Designs
Apache Design Solutions

SH2/2A Family: Sensorless Vector Control of Three-Phase Permanent Magnet Synchronous Motors
Renesas Technology

Advantages of Host Simulation Over Other Types of Embedded Software Simulators
Mentor Graphics

Improving Electromagnetic Noise Immunity in Serial Communications Systems
National Semiconductor

Prevention is Better Than The Cure: Compiler Run Time Error Checking
Mentor Graphics

Hardware/Software Validation with a TLM Virtual System Prototype
Alon Wintergreen and Rami Rachamim • Mentor Graphics

Data Management for Hardware Design Teams
Michael Henrie and Karim Khalfan • ClioSoft

User Interface and Graphics Development for Embedded Systems
Mentor Graphics

PowerWise Class G versus Class AB Headphone Amplifiers
Richard Gomez • National Semiconductor

The PSP Model in RF CMOS Design
Fujitsu Microelectronics

Equation-Based DRC: A Novel Approach to Resolving Complex Nanometer Design Issues
Mentor Graphics

The virtual vehicle: Part 4
Thorsten Gerke and Frank Lehmann • Synopsys

Miniature Iso-Amp Rises to the Challenge of Sensing Motor Phase Current
Avago Technologies

HDI Layer Stackups for Large Dense PCBs
Mentor Graphics

A Cloud Guide for HPC
Ashar Baig • Univa

The Developing Technologies of Integrated Optical Waveguides in Printed Circuits
Happy Holden • Mentor Graphics

Balancing Process-Centric and Data-Centric Software Development
McObject

Mitigate Multi-Processor Synchronization Risks with Processor-Driven Verification
Mentor Graphics

Reducing Development Program Risk
Mentor Graphics

Efficient Design and Verification of Digital Communication Systems
Markus Willems and Holger Keding • Synopsys

Tightening the Loop on Coverage Closure
Mentor Graphics

Improving Efficiency Productivity and Coverage Using SystemVerilog OVM Registers
Mentor Graphics

Advanced Verification of Low Power Designs
Mentor Graphics

A Case Study: Critical Area and Critical Feature Analysis of Production 90nm Designs at LSI Corporation
Mentor Graphics

Layout-Aware Diagnosis
Mentor Graphics

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