Two areas of the design flow seem to be the ripest for innovation going forward. One is the electronic system level (ESL) at levels of abstraction higher than RTL, and the other is the physical domain ...

I was delighted when reader and DI contributor Jim Brannan proposed writing up his base-3 DAC design. Like Charlieplexing, his idea makes use of tristate outputs to wring more information from a pin ...

Some of the Design Automation Conference's party spirit makes its way into the technical program at this year's show. Like many niches in the electronics industry, EDA has a bit of a split personality ...

This marks the 10 th DAC that I have covered as a blogger. At DAC 2008 in Anaheim, the industry had just come together behind the SystemC TLM 2.0 standard to enable virtual platforms, finally getting ...

This year’s Design Automation Conference will include an “alley” on the exhibit floor, but it won’t be a dark, narrow passageway we think of when we hear “alley.” Instead, the new Design ...

SANTA CRUZ, Calif. — Engineers are warming to C language design tools, according to reviews in the Design Automation Conference (DAC) “trip report” released Friday (Feb. 11) by industry gadfly John ...

Musical Fidelity has introduced the M3x DAC as the new entry point into its high-end digital-to-analogue converter design. Influenced by the next-model-up M6x DAC and promising to offer “near-M6 ...

Astell&Kern manufactures some of our favorite high-resolution digital audio players, and now the company is bringing a high-end mobile digital audio converter/amplifier combo to market. As its name ...