2017-06-29 - Michael Steffes

Analysing FDA to drive ADC performance – Part 3

The design calculations will give you an idea of how to compare solutions and identify key terms in an FDA design that drives high-performance ADCs.

2017-05-25 - Singh Amrit & Atulesh Kansal

Negative tests for SoC security validation – Part 2

Since equipment for security testing is usually expensive negative checks can be done to validate and ensure SoC security.

2017-03-14 - Adnan Hamid

Users, makers map portable test, stimulus standard

The Accellera Portable Stimulus is modelled by users and tool developers with new and existing tools and methodologies to coexist.

- Adnan Hamid

Search is on for new system-level verification

The Accellera Portable Stimulus utilises graph coverage to verify every path through the design for single-standard verification uses.

2017-03-06 - Steve Taranovich

Voice command ‘solution’ in a whisper

The Whisper Voice IC, which boasts voice extraction filter sans voice signal distortion, detects voice up to 5m away from the microphone.

- Steve Taranovich

What makes voice command essential?

Voice command in real-world environment requires ASR and NLP that entail audio analysis, noise and voice distinction to be functional.

- National Instruments

Massive MIMO demo’s 5G spectral efficiency

Multiple antenna technology, referred to as MIMO, is already used in many Wi-Fi routers and 4G cellular phone systems.

2017-02-27 - Bipin Patel, Manzil Shah

Verify design blocks at chip level the API way

The API-based verification approach can be adopted for any chip, but it makes most sense for designs where chip configuration is done first.

2017-02-22 - Larry Desjardin

Cancelled R&D could be blessing-in-disguise

Technical feasibility is paramount. So if the team reports the project is not overall viable, that's a successful outcome, too.

2017-01-13 - John Dunn

How off is ‘off’?

Several analog switches have been evaluated for their on-off ratios using a circuit board as a test fixture.