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Category Archives: Low-Power
Do you believe in 21st century Intelligent Design?
Late last month, columnist Mike Cassidy wrote about visionary Clayton Christensen’s Innovator’s Dilemma in the San Jose Mercury News and his words reminded me that it was time, past time, to make yet another blog-based plea for intelligent design. No, … Continue reading
3-Hour, $50 Short course in Low-Power Design with Prof. Jan Rabaey. Silicon Valley, Jan 31
The Santa Clara Valley (SCV) Chapter of the IEEE Solid State Circuits Society is hosting a 3-hour short course in low-power design a the end of this month. The course is divided into two parts: Fundamentals of low-power design and … Continue reading
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2011: A great year for low-power design, wasn’t it? Part B
2011 was a great year for low-power design. I don’t think I can remember a year as good to low-power designers and I thought I’d devote this second part of my blog post on this topic to review some major … Continue reading
2011: A great year for low-power design, wasn’t it?
2011 was a great year for low-power design. I don’t think I can remember a year as good to low-power designers. I thought I’d devote this blog to a review of some major developments in 2011 that made low-power designers’ … Continue reading
What if 2.5D got really cheap? How would that affect low-power design?
Last week, silicon-interposer foundry Deca Technologies unstealthed. I found out from an article in the San Jose Mercury News and just published a blog about the announcement in my other blog, the EDA360 Insider. Deca is a subsidiary of Cypress … Continue reading
“Watt’s Next?” asks Chris Malachowsky, co-founder, NVIDIA Fellow, and Senior VP or Research
Everything—literally everything—we design today is defined by its power consumption said Chris Malachowsky, an NVIDIA co-founder, fellow, and senior VP of research. Malachowsky spoke yesterday at a luncheon during the ICCAD conference held this week in San Jose, California. At … Continue reading
Generation-jumping 2.5D Xilinx Virtex-7 2000T FPGA delivers 1,954,560 logic cells, consumes only 20W
Xilinx announced today that it is shipping Virtex-7 2000T FPGAs to customers. This is one monster FPGA. Its 6.8 billion transistors deliver 1,954,560 logic cells, 21.55 Mbits of distributed SRAM, 2160 DSP slices, 46,512Kbits of block RAM, four PCIe ports, 36 … Continue reading
Tesla? Hah! How about a brand new, 2012 all-electric DeLorean? $90K
McFly!!! This was just too good to pass up. DeLorean Motor Company (Humble, TX), the establishment that bought the remains of the original DeLorean car company including tons of finished stainless-steel body parts, plans to bring out an electric version … Continue reading
Altera introduces SoC FPGA melding ARM Cortex-A9 dual-core processor complex with a 28nm FPGA fabric
Xilinx first started to talk publicly about the fusion of processors and FPGAs—a product now known as Zynq—in 2010 and has announced plans to roll out parts by the end of this year. It was inevitable that Altera would eventually … Continue reading
1972: When scientific calculators truly went low power
Dave Cochran recently wrote about his long engineering career at Hewlett-Packard on the www.hpmemory.org Web site. Who? What Web site? Well, the Web site is an amazing living museum that’s a tribute to Bill and Dave’s HP. And Dave Cochran is … Continue reading
