This column shows how to develop a fully refined use-case model. I hope some of the ideas about traceability and packaging are picked up by tool vendors (e.g., Rational, CA). The main concepts of this ...

This file type includes high resolution graphics and schematics when applicable. Practically every electronic product made today uses one or more serial data interfaces. A serial interface is the ...

Dozens of serial data interfaces are used today. Most have been developed for specific applications. A few have become universal, such as I 2 C, CAN, LIN, SPI, Flex, MOST, and I 2 S. Then there’s ...

For more than a decade, wideband satellite payload communication systems were built with data converters that used a low-voltage differential signaling (LVDS) data interface to a field-programmable ...

Due to today’s connected world, a high volume of valuable data, susceptible to tampering and physical attacks, is processed, stored, and moved between devices, cars, and data centers. And the number ...

High speed data interfaces like USB, HDMI, WiFi IEE1394/FireWire and LVDS require careful considerations to ensure reliable communication that is free of disruptive EMI. Of the many tools at the ...

Technology giants IBM Corp., Google and seven others have joined hands to launch an open specification that can boost datacenter server performance by up to 10 times, to take on Intel Corp. The new ...