Blood glucose testing in the palm of your hands

As the need for home diabetes care continues to increase, and with many competitors in the space, look for blood glucose meters to add features and reduce price in the future.

How to deal with worst slew propagation

Currently, static timing analysis is based on worst slew propagation. Hence, some of the timing paths are not able to achieve the desired frequency targets.

Growing challenges in nanometer timing analysis

By including nanometer effects, advanced timing analysis methods deliver the precision needed to accurately predict performance and avoid costly silicon iterations.

Timing analysis tools greatly impacts a successful design

This article examines the different kinds of timing analysis products used in ASIC, FPGA, and board-level design.

Moving DSP industrial apps onto FPGAs

This article discusses the general issues of moving part, or all, of a DSP industrial application onto an FPGA using system software design tools.

Obtain best performance from your FPGA design

This article will explore how FPGA designers can benefit from the latest FPGA building blocks in their quest for higher system-level performance.

Simulation boosts FPGA-based DSP systems

The use of FPGAs as coprocessors provides considerable speed gains over high-end DSPs. The wide range of automated tools makes the development of FPGA-based DSP systems faster and easier than ever before.

Implementing low, high frequency ADCs using reference designs

This article explains the implementation of both a low frequency and higher frequency ADC using reference designs and demo boards available from Lattice Semiconductor.

Achieve optimum ADC performance

This article gives an overview of ADCs and recommendations on how to apply them successfully.

Using ADC with resistive touchscreens

This paper describes how to wire the touchscreen to the ADC, and how to design the system software to interact with the ADC

3D TV launch rouses eyestrain concern

Experts in human perception are raising concerns that stereo 3D TVs could cause eye strain and related health problems.

3D TV boom spurs need for health research fund

Big bucks will be made selling stereo 3D TV over the next few years, but whether any of it funds research on the health impacts of broad use of such novel systems remains to be seen.

3D TV shipments to hit 78M units by 2015

Global 3D TV shipments will reach 78 million units by 2015, rising at a CAGR of 80 percent from 4.2 million in 2010 according to iSuppli Corp.

TSMC takes on 40nm yields, high-k, litho issues

At the TSMC Japan Executive Forum in Yokohama, Shang-Yi Chiang, senior VP of R&D at TSMC, addressed several issues about the silicon foundry giant.

Intel, TSMC put Atom partnership on hold

Intel has no immediate plans to bring to market any Atom chips manufactured by TSMC, confirming a report that the groundbreaking partnership has hit a lull.

Kingdee sets up R&D centre in Singapore

Kingdee International Software Group Co. Ltd has opened its corporate premises and R&D center in Singapore.

HP Labs research facility rises in Singapore

HP Labs has established new research facility in Singapore, which will focus on developing an enterprise cloud software platform, dubbed Cirious.