Managing the power consumption of ICs is an increasingly difficult challenge, because each new generation of portable device includes expanded features and demands longer battery lives.

Non-mainstream technologies can offer advantages over more commonly used approaches, but usually at some additional cost (otherwise they’d probably be mainstream). The additional cost could be in ...

Silistix, an IP-bus and EDA startup originating from research performed by the University of Manchester and funded by Intel Capital, wants to help you make the next generation of SOCs (systems on ...

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Lack of coordination between asynchronous resets and synchronous logic clocks leads to intermittent failures on power up. In this series of articles, we discuss the requirements and challenges of ...

This article originally appeared in Yale Engineering magazine. Imagine working in an office where, once you’ve finished one task, you had to wait until everyone in all the other cubicles completed the ...

FIFO (First In First Out) is a buffer that stores data in a way that data stored first comes out of the buffer first. Asynchronous FIFO is most widely used in the System-on-Chip (SoC) designs for data ...

Component manufacturers can minimize energy use by working efficiency tactics into the design and intended operation of mechanical components. Tactics for moving an asynchronous system from IE3 to IE4 ...