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Extending 8K over a single, cost-effective wire with TICO lightweight compression

With HD omnipresent and 4K seemingly still in its early stages, an even higher resolution, namely 8K (or UHDTV2) is arising. Display and projection manufacturers are already presenting their first 8K-capable products and the 2018 Winter Olympics were partly filmed in this currently largest video resolution format. Taking a peek into the future, Japan’s national TV “NHK” has even announced to broadcast the full Olympic games on home turf in 2020 in glorious 8K.

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PCI Express 3.0 needs reliable timing design

PCI Express (PCIe) is an important standard for chip-to-chip communications and serves as a standard for connecting motherboards to peripheral cards. It can be challenging, however, to implement the reference clock so that it meets the various requirements of the PCIe standard.

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Designing an Effective Traffic Management System Through Vehicle Classification and Counting Techniques

This white paper proposes an effective approach for moving vehicle classification followed up by vehicle counting, for classified types of vehicles. This data helps in strategic city planning, and in generating meaningful insights for improving efficiency and reliability in Traffic Management.

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Improving reliability of non-volatile memory systems

Complex systems like Advanced Driver-Assistance Systems (ADAS), medical, and industrial applications need to be reliable, secure, and safe. In these systems, firmware and associated data are stored in Non-Volatile Memory (NVM) because code and data must be retained when power is not being supplied. Thus, NVM plays a crucial role in system reliability.

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Gen-Z Primer for Early Adopters

In this article we look at the Gen-Z fabric as a solution to eliminate existing system bottlenecks and significantly improve system efficiency and performance by unifying communication paths and simplifying software using the CPU-memory load/store language throughout.

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System Verilog Assertions Simplified

Assertion is a very powerful feature of System Verilog HVL (Hardware Verification Language). Nowadays it is widely adopted and used in most of the design verification projects. This article explains the concurrent assertions syntaxes, simple examples of their usage and details of passing and failing scenarios along with waveform snippets for the ease of understanding.