D&R Industry Articles (May 2007)
Articles for the Week of May 28, 2007
RAID6 accelerator in a PowerPC IOP SOC
This paper describes a PowerPC system-on-a-chip (SOC) which is intended to address the high-performance RAID market segment. The SOC uses IBM's Core-Connect technology to integrate a rich set of features including a DDRII-800 SDRAM controller, three 2.5Gb/s PCI-Express interfaces, hardware accelerated XOR for RAID 5 and RAID 6, I2O messaging, three DMA controllers, a 1Gb Ethernet port, a parallel peripheral Bus, three UARTs, general purpose IO, general purpose timers, and two IIC buses.- A Platform Based SoC Design Environment
- How to design an Interlaken to SPI-4.2 bridge
- Achieving Certified IP Quality Efficiently
- Embedded-system validation spans inception to signoff
Articles for the Week of May 21, 2007
Realizing the Performance Potential of a PCI-Express IP
This paper describes challenges involved in realizing the maximum performance of a configurable interconnect IP (GPEX - Rambus PCI Express Digital Controller). The following sections describe how various performance metrics such as roundtrip latency and bandwidth can be used to characterize a PCI Express IP performance and its impact on the system. The ideas presented can also be applied to other high speed interconnect architectures like RapidIO and Hypertransport- A Unified CPU Model for SOC Verification
- Timing Constraints Generation Technology
- Implement PCI Express 1.1 in your latest design
- Standard Debug Interface Socket Requirements For OCP-Compliant SoC
- Low Power 7T SRAM Cell Scheme - ''Saving Write Zero Power''
Articles for the Week of May 14, 2007
e Verification Environment for FlexRay Advanced Automotive Networks
FlexRay is the vehicle networking standard being backed by all major automotive manufacturers because it is fast and flexible while being reliable and deterministic. NXP (formerly Philips) Semiconductor is a founding member of the FlexRay Consortium and has invested heavily in a comprehensive e verification environment for FlexRay, which IPextreme is taking to market.- A Phyton Based SoC Validation and Test Environment
- Tutorial on 802.11n PHY layer
- Timing Constraints Generation Technology
- Synthesizable Switching Logic For Network-On-Chip Designs on 90nm Technologies
- Anatomy of a hardware video codec
- Selecting memory controllers for DSP systems
Articles for the Week of May 7, 2007
Reusable debug infrastructure in multi core SoC : Embedded WiFi case study
This paper outlines a system level reusable hardware-software debug infrastructure for a complex multi core SoC and describes how this can be integrated with existing third party debug tools such as ARM MultiIce and logic analyzers. The concepts are illustrated through the case study of multi core multi million gate embedded WiFi project.- Verifying Configurable Verification Interfaces Using OCP
- Symmetric Cryptographic Offload Options for SoC Designers
- Audio Coding for Wireless Applications
- Compression/decompression tradeoffs for data networking and storage
- How to choose an RTOS for your FPGA and ASIC designs
- IP-based design for analogue ASICs: A case study
- Analog and Mixed-Signal Connectivity IP at 65nm and below
Articles for the Week of April 30, 2007
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