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Apple boots HDD--completely out of the new MacBook Air notebooks. SSD is the...
Claiming that the move unifies Apple’s product line, Steve Jobs yesterday announced two new lightweight MacBook Air notebook computers. Significantly, neither HDD nor optical disk storage is an...
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STT-MRAM -- from Seagate???
On June 12, 1989, I flew to Minnesota from Denver, Colorado, picked up a rental car, and drove from Minneapolis to Bloomington to attend a special disk drive conference being held by the leading vendor...
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The 3D SSD
You need three things from a solid-state disk (SSD): speed, capacity, and reliability. You need three things from a portable SSD: speed, capacity, reliability, and diminutive size. And you can’t get...
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New Memory Technologies, New Possibilities
As a complete gadget geek, it’s always exciting to play with the latest technological toys. But if you stop to consider how each new wave of applications powered by these devices impacts the underlying...
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Can DRAM Contents Survive a Reboot? Surprisingly, In Most Cases The Answer...
A Cadence DRAM Memory Controller IP customer asks, "I have a DRAM subsystem with ECC and my system has the capability to use write data masks and partial-word writes. DDR3 has a reset pin, why can't I...
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Cadence Demonstrates PCI Express 3.0 Controller IP in Customer Silicon
At the June 2011 PCI-SIG Developer's Conference, Cadence demonstrated Cadence Design IP for PCI Express 3.0 controller IP implemented as a high-performance, dual-mode, 128-bit data-path, x8 PCI Express...
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Video: Cadence Demonstrates PCIe Gen3 Silicon at PCI-SIG Dev-Con (SAS RAID...
This video is part one of a two-part series demonstrating the Cadence PCI Express Gen3 IP silicon on the customer's PC board while it's being tested with a LeCroy Protocol Analyzer and Exerciser. In...
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Video, Part 2: Cadence Demonstrates PCIe Gen3 Advanced Features
Welcome back for Part 2 of a two-part PCI-SIG video demo featuring Cadence’s PCI Express Gen3 Controller IP advanced capabilities, with a discussion on Single Root I/O Virtualization (SR-IOV). Part 1...
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Martin Lund on the Future of IP (Video Interview)
As SoC complexity continues to rise, more IP is being utilized, and the quality and completness expected from IP is increasing rapidly. The IP industry needs to change to meet these new expectations,...
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Cadence Video Demonstrates PCIe Gen3 IP Silicon Performance
It is not often that an IP provider gets to showcase their IP performance in a real product demo. Those laurels usually end up going to the end product that uses the IP. But a recent Cadence video...
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MIPI Alliance Meeting Reflects the Rapid Growth of the Mobile Market
Let me start this entry on a bit of a personal note. As a Pole, I was very happy to learn some time ago that the 2013 European meeting of the MIPI Alliance would take place in my home country. Later,...
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Cadence First to Demo Complete M-PCIe PHY and Controller Solution at MIPI and...
One of the hottest (or should I say coolest – because low power is so important) new standards is PCI Express® (PCIe) over M-PHY, or M-PCIe. To implement it properly, it’s essential that the...
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M-PCIe—The New Big Thing from MIPI Alliance and PCI-SIG
If you’re reading this, you must have heard about the M-PCIe specification that has just been announced by two very important standardization bodies in the semiconductor industry—MIPI Alliance and...
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Cadence Verification IP AppNotes Demonstrate the Use of Trace Files in...
Cadence Verification IP (VIP) provides solutions for verifying compliance and compatibility of protocols. All VIPs include highly configurable and flexible simulation models of all protocol layers,...
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Verification IP: Five More Things I Learned By Browsing Cadence Online Support
After talking about some tips for using trace files in debugging Verification IP simulations in my last blog post, here I am back again, as promised. This time I'll discuss and provide references for...
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HDMI 2.0 – Ushering in the Next Generation of Ultra HD TV
The future of television is being defined by two key technologies: organic light-emitting diode (OLED) screens and ultra high definition (Ultra HD or "4K TV") standards. OLED is a display technology...
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IEEE 802.3 -- Standardizing the Next Generation of Ethernet PHYs
I attended the IEEE 802.3 standards meeting in York, England recently. Over 200 people came from all over the world to work on standards for the next generation of Ethernet products.Work is ongoing to...
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Intel Developer Forum (IDF13): A "Look Inside" the Technology Showcase
The recent Intel Developer Forum 2013 in San Francisco was notable for the sheer number of attendees and the broad spectrum of the technology industry they represented.Intel's embrace of a more...
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Automotive Ethernet Interest Soars at Industry Events
I attended two consecutive automotive Ethernet events near Stuttgart last week. Judging by the level of participation automotive Ethernet is really taking off. The first event was the OPEN Alliance...
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TSMC 28HPM – Sweet Spot for Today’s Mobile SoCs
Mobile is the only business besides PCs where actual SoCs get a lot of visibility in the eyes of the end customer. Does Joe Doe care what’s inside his MP3 player or car infotainment system? No, not as...
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