March 28, 2013
The Business Of Things (The Internet of Things)
The IOT market is, in fact, becoming a reality as new products and applications expand beyond vertical markets, making their way to the consumer.
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Articles tagged: 'architecture'
August 1, 2012
The Power of Dark Silicon
Even though the cloud is permeating everything we do today, I was recently reminded that it’s even omnipresent far outside the walls of tech. With all the TV ads, as well as our most prominent airports and U.S. highways peppered with cloud-based billboards, even our parents know how to properly use cloud in sentence today. But to hear about the cloud from the pulpit at church on Sunday, that caught me a bit off guard. (And no, the punch line was not that heaven was in the clouds!)
A visiting homilist explained that he could travel light—especially to a high-tech place like Silicon Valley now that all his information was in the cloud and easily accessible from anywhere, anytime. It was true, he had no problem accessing his homily, until he tried to print and the printer ran out of ink. Unfortunately, the content was stuck in the cloud so he had to “wing it.” Needless to say, this quickly brings us back down to earth with a firm reminder that as powerful as the cloud is, at some point we are limited by the performance of (or lack thereof) our local devices.
Clearly our local devices are not much use without cloud con
March 22, 2012
Speed Matters
As featured in: Speed is the shiny object, the undisputed premium, and in many ways, the ultimate carrot with customers when designing advanced SoCs. There are a few moments when the conversation temporarily shifts to area, or some special feature, but we always come back to speed, or more specifically, frequency. This is without a …
February 23, 2012
Breaking Down the “Make vs. Buy” Barriers for IP – Written by Jack Browne, Sr. VP Sales, Marketing, for GSA’s IP Working Group
As the fabless era disaggregated EDA and IP offerings, there are areas where in- house development is still the norm, even with today’s $2.5B IP industry. One of these is on-chip network – connecting the IP cores and memory subsystem. On-chip interconnect or networks-on-chip (NoCs), in many companies, is still regarded as a part of …