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White LEDs (WLED) are increasingly becoming the light source of choice for backlighting applications due to their attractiveness in power efficiency and form factor. This white paper looks into the design specifications and constraints for an LED driver for backlighting solutions. Architectural methods would be discussed to address these constraints.
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Evolution of technology conforming to Moore’s law has enabled packing of billion transistors on a single chip. This evolution in HW manufacturing processes has also changed the basic premise on which architecture’s were conceived in previous generation of chips.
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Based on the assertions approach, this paper presents an innovative methodology for the verification of analog and mixed-signal circuits which embeds detectors at each step of the hierarchical verification process to increase Quality Control and reduce Time to Market. This paper illustrates the approach with the input range and phase shift verification of the Analog Front-End (AFE) of an Energy Meter.
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Just as you were getting used to the idea of multicore processors in systems on chips (SoCs), the world is changing again. As several presentations at August’s Hot Chips Conference make clear, multicore is becoming many-core: the number of processor cores closely coupled at the hearts of SoCs is rising from 2 or 4 to 8, 16, or many, many more.