ARTICLES


Automotive Design with iQBus

by Thomas Heurung
Synopsys, Inc.

Today, automobiles carry new functiones (components) in rapid succession. These functiones use electrical energy, therefore increasing the total electrical energy consumption. To meet the demand for electrical power, the industry has agreed on raising the voltage level to 42V.

Design Wave Magazine, No.61, December 2002.
Mindready Automotive Reference Platform
Fuels In-Vehicle Entertainment

by Martin Lessard
Vice President, Business Development
Real-Time Solutions Business Unit
Mindready Solutions

This article discusses the IDB-1394. The IDB-1394 is the specification for in-vehicle network designed for high speed multimedia applications that require large amounts of information to be moved quickly within a vehicle.

Design Wave Magazine, No.61, December 2002.
The River Runs Deep [The latter part]

by Stillman Gates
Adaptec

This is a sequel to the article "The River Runs Deep" that explain of the PCI-X 2.0 specification. In this time, the article describe how to design I/O cells, and packaging technology.

Design Wave Magazine, No.59, October 2002.
The River Runs Deep [The first part]

by Stillman Gates
Adaptec

In July 23, 2002, the PCI-SIG (the Special Interest Group responsible for PCI) board directors has approved the PCI-X 2.0 specification. This article give an explain of the main features of the PCI-X 2.0 specification.

Design Wave Magazine, No.58, September 2002.
Save $900,000 a month by using Silicon FingerprintingTM

by Steve Sapiro
SiidTech

Do you know "Silicon Fingerprinting"? It is like a human fingerprint -- non-alterable, non-forgeable and unique to each die or IP. Silicon Fingerprinting can help increase the yield of a silicon fabrication facility, thereby increasing profit tremendously.

Design Wave Magazine, No.57, August 2002.

Feeding the Dragon
--Ultra320 SCSI Fulfills High Throughput Requirements

by Arlen Young
Adaptec

This article discusses trends that encouraged the development of Ultra320 SCSI and why this new technology is necessary.

Design Wave Magazine, No.56, July 2002.

PCB Design for New I/O Interface "InfiniBand"

by Byran Longmire
Director of Product Marketing
Mellanox Technologies

The InfiniBand is a new architecture designed to expand and improve I/O connectivity in data centers.

This article describe the InfiniBand I/O architecutre and shows you the basic layout & PCB design guidlines for Mellanox's InfiniScale(TM) MT43132 device in a typical platform will be outlined. The MT43132 is an eight 4X InfiniBand swtich with integrated SerDes.

    Design Wave Magazine, No.56, July 2002.
USB 2.0 On-The-Go
--The Next Generation in Mobile Computing

by David Luke
Electrical Design Engineer Principal
Cypress Semiconductor

New supplement to the USB specification called "USB On-The-Go" was released on December 8, 2001. This article will describe these new capabilities in detail.

      Design Wave Magazine, No.53, April 2002.
USB 2.0 Printed Circuit Board Design

by Michael M. Abraham and David Luke
Cypress Semiconductor

This article shows you how to design a PCB for USB2.0. USB2.0 boasts 40~ the speed of USB 1.1, and it is faster. But Designing a PCB for USB 2.0 compliance is not as trivial as a USB 1.1 design.

    Design Wave Magazine, No.50, January 2002.






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