Analyzing differences in area, timing, and power attributes for different implementations of the same basic design reveals that considering simple, single-cycle power numbers is misleading and even erroneous.

Here's how to sample low-pass signals without aliasing. The article lays out the math of sampling and signal reconstruction.

Although the concepts are promising, the basic components for energy harvesting are still in the development stages.

MEMS accelerometers are one of the most newsworthy analog products today. However, are they a passing system design fad, or here to stay?

ASOCS and Renesas Technology have announced a GSM/GPRS/EDGE communication development system (CDS).

In the final in a four part series, the authors describes the kind of sophisticated unit & transport allocation algorithms needed to map arbitrary code sequences onto a custom architecture using binary level partitioning.

Inductorless SRs exploit one or two small and cheap ceramic capacitors instead of an expensive inductor while delivering >80% average efficiency.

In the third in a four part series, the authors describe how binary level hardware/software partitioning allows software on an existing main CPU can be migrated onto an automatically optimized and generated loosely coupled coprocessor.

This article provides an overview of regeneration - what it is and how it occurs - and managing it in RoboteQ controllers.

Here's how, by using Synapse's Wireless Mesh Network Protocol, to reduce power consumption in wirelessly connected portable products by alternating between being "awake" for a short amount of time and then entering a "sleep" mode in which they consume less power

In the second in a four part series, the authors describe how their binary level hardware/software partitioning architecture allows software functionality implemented on an existing main CPU to be migrated onto an automatically optimized and generated loosely coupled coprocessor.

In the first of a four part series, Skip Hovsmith with David Stewart & Richard Taylor compare traditional source level partitioning used in FPGAs to binary level hardware/software partitioning for optimizing of multicore or coprocessor designs.

Energy harvesting is without doubt going to be one of the power management themes of 2009. Throughout the year we are going to be bombarded with new techniques to harness energy from all kinds of unusual power sources. Some will be clever and some will be downright whacky.

As data rates increase, maintaining signal integrity is more challenging; this multipart article looks at fundamentals of the problem, as well as passive and active approaches to dealing with it.

As data rates increase, maintaining signal integrity is more challenging; this multipart article looks at fundamentals of the problem, as well as passive and active approaches to dealing with it.

Last week's column on the Ada language generated a lot of comment. Here's more on the lack of adoption of this language - and on career inertia.

External branding of the multimedia player is Esolo, from a Houston-based importer Esolo Digital who claims to be aligned with "over 100 factories in China".