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whitepaper Consolidating on AMD Opteron-Based ProLiant Servers Cuts Licensing Costs, Boosts Performance2005-06-21 03:00:02
  HP's application-specific integrated circuit (ASIC) design teams - early adopters of Linux-based electronic design automation (EDA) software and industry-standard servers for 32-bit applications - develop and test ASICs for use in HP ProLiant industry-standard servers. The initial lack of 64-bit Linux and 64-bit industry-standard servers forced the group to retain many legacy workstations to provide the support required for complex applications and simulations. The new HP ProLiant DL585 4-way server, featuring the AMD Opteron processor, and the availability of the Synopsys EDA development tools for Red Hat Enterprise Linux provided the ideal solution for the HP ASIC design group.   
whitepaper SML2004-0062: Long Wires and Asynchronous Control2005-08-02 03:00:01 Sun Microsystems
  As integrated circuit technologies get smaller, circuit and architectural trends make transmitting data across long on-chip wires increasingly important yet increasingly expensive in both latency and throughput. Inserting repeaters can reduce latency by breaking up long wires with gain stages but offers only limited throughput improvement, while breaking long wires with clocked latches improves latency and throughput but requires generating fast local clocks. In contrast, asynchronous handshaking over long wires can improve both latency and bandwidth with lower control overhead. This paper introduces simple latency models that relate best stage separation to technology parameters.   
whitepaper IP Eases Bluetooth Design2005-11-15 01:00:02
  Some of the main challenges in Bluetooth design occur at the embedded-system level, where developers have to determine the best level of chip integration for virtual components. The first question is whether to use off-the-shelf Bluetooth chips or to develop an application specific integrated circuit (ASIC) that integrates Bluetooth functions into an existing design. There is no easy answer, because electronic design involves balancing technology issues with business and marketing factors such as development and manufacturing costs, and time to market.   
whitepaper SkyPilot Networks Chooses Fujitsu System-on-Chip for New Generation WiMAX Mesh Networking Solution0000-00-00 Broadband Wireless Exchange
  SkyPilot selected the Fujitsu WiMAX System-on-Chip (SoC) for a new generation of systems that will bring sophisticated mesh networking to WiMAX deployments. As the first company to announce plans to add mesh networking to WiMAX infrastructures, SkyPilot will provide multi-hop, multi-link, multi-path, and multi-base station connectivity that offers a breadth of coverage, performance, and fault-tolerance capabilities not available with point-to-multipoint deployments.   
whitepaper Optimal Decoupling Capacitor Sizing and Placement for Standard Cell Layout Designs2006-03-23 04:55:53 IBM
  With technology scaling, the trend for high performance integrated circuits is towards ever higher operating frequency, lower power supply voltages and higher power dissipation. This causes a dramatic increase in the currents being delivered through the on-chip power grid and is recognized in the 2001 International Technology Roadmap for Semiconductors as one of the difficult challenges. The addition of decoupling capacitances (decaps) is arguably the most powerful degree of freedom that a designer has for power-grid noise abatement and is becoming more important as technology scales. This paper proposes and demonstrates an algorithm for the automated placement and sizing of decaps in ASIC-like circuits.   
whitepaper Intel IOPs Help Adaptec Define Leading Edge of External Storage Solutions Segment2006-03-23 05:19:19
  External storage solutions have traditionally been expensive to build from an R&D standpoint, as well as cumbersome to manage and service. Toward that end, Adaptec's Storage Solutions Group is developing next-generation controllers for connecting servers to RAID-based storage devices. The Hammerhead controller - as well as other external storage controllers that Adaptec will develop on the same platform - is based on the Intel IOP315 I/O Processor Chipset with Intel XScale Technology. This case study examines how the IOP315 chipset with Intel XScale technology enables Adaptec developers to offer server OEMs and other system builders cost-effective, high-performance external storage solutions with a compact footprint and an ultra-low power profile.   

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