The Perils of Performance
Mentor HyperLynx Helps Handle the Hot Spots
Is it just me, or is digital design getting a lot trickier? We were all going along just fine, flipping our little zeroes and ones happily back and forth, and then somebody comes up with the brilliant idea to replace our nice, simple parallel busses with serial IO. OK, so maybe those parallel busses were not quite so simple by that time; it was starting to be nearly impossible to do the board layout so that all those signals arrived at somewhat the same time. To make matters worse, we kept raising the clock frequencies until “somewhat the same time” wasn’t even close to good enough anymore. Read More
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Minding the Gap
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Validating Serial Protocols
posted by Bryon Moyer
If you want to convince yourself that your super-fast protocol running on a high-speed serial link really works in the real world, you need to test it with something that can actually run at speed. (14-Dec)
ESD on High-Frequency RF Circuits
posted by Bryon Moyer
What do you do if your sensitive RF circuits need ESD protection, but the protection circuit screws up your RF? TSMC and imec recently reported some good results. (14-Nov)
Bridging Digital and Custom Domains
posted by Bryon Moyer
Synopsys makes it easier to work in both domains. That is, without making it so easy that there’s only one domain… (17-Oct)
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