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 ...

Two companies that exhibited at the Embedded Systems Conference in San Jose, CA, in April have similar objectives but for different technologies. Coventor, a vendor of CAD and analysis tools for ...

Silistix to Demonstrate ESL Design for Chips Using Self-Timed Interconnect at Design Automation Conference SAN JOSE, CA -- July 21, 2006 -- Silistix, a provider of innovative software for on-chip ...

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