In last month's column, we began to address some of the common basic piping violations on primary/secondary interfaces between alternative energy systems and conventional energy systems. This month we ...

Power-on initialization requires extra consideration because different hardware and firmware components are turning on in different states and initializing at different rates. Hardware typically comes ...

These design guidelines provide the best practices for DDR and DDR2 SDRAM custom memory interface implementation in Stratix III and Stratix IV FPGAs. Figure 1 shows the design flow that is required ...

Enabling a robust on-chip debug capability is being recognized as animportant Design for Debug (DFD) capability for complex SoC and having DFDstandardization makes the Open Core Protocol (OCP) ...

Earlier this year, I was writing an e-mail message using Microsoft Office Outlook 2007 and clicked on the button for adding one of my signature blocks. Presto! Most of my message disappeared!

This month I’m going back to programming for a while. I need a rest from the weirdness on the Talkback discussion in last month’s column. I do intend to write more about theory issues in the future, ...

Creating and implementing a working interface between two health care information systems can be quite daunting. There is no defined methodology for addressing the many facets of interface ...