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Case Study: A Better Way To Predict Weather
By Ed Sperling Most of our weather predictions are developed from about 150 stationary government radar systems, which interlock and occasionally overlap to create a cohesive picture. The picture isn’t...
View ArticleMoving Up The Food Chain
By Ed Sperling It used to be considered axiomatic that chip companies would be rewarded for spectacular technology, reflected in the market value of their components and in their stock price. But with...
View ArticleArtificial Intelligence: This Time It’s For Real
AI used to be the stuff of science fiction, but cheap processing power and storage has made it a reality. To find out what’s being developed, System-Level Design (www.chipdesignmag.com/sld) tracked...
View ArticleNew Pain Points In System-Level Design
By Ed Sperling One of the strange things about downturns is they force companies to re-examine what they do and question what kind of value they bring to the market. This is particularly true in the...
View ArticleOne Design, Many Products
By Pallab Chatterjee The tightening worldwide economy finally has forced the consumer products arena to adopt an aggressive single-SKU mentality for their products. This means companies are now making...
View ArticleAchieving Successful LTE Design and Test
By Cheryl Ajluni In spite of all of its hype, WiMAX is not the only standard causing a stir these days or being called a “killer app.” Another technology that has achieved this illustrious title is...
View ArticleAdventures In System-Level Design
By Pallab Chatterjee Some products literally sing out for attention—especially to system-level engineers. At the recent Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, several in particular were worth noting:...
View ArticleThe Trouble With Multicore Software
David Patterson, Professor of Computer Science at UC Berkeley, presented his views to the Naval Postgraduate School about the prospects for multicore programming success. This video was excerpted from...
View ArticleNext Steps In Verification IP
By Ann Steffora Mutschler With the cost of failure at an astronomical high, the last thing chip designers want to worry about is the physical IP they will use to build their SoC. In addition to less...
View ArticleSystem Level Design: The Next Generation
By Clive “Max” Maxfield System Level Design (SLD) is one of those terms that means different things to different people. For some, SLD is understood to refer to the process of capturing (and verifying)...
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