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Communication Design

Company takes the assp route to support 100Gbit Ethernet ... 24/01/2012

Merchant chips that address 100Gbit Ethernet and optical transport are finally coming to market. Cortina Systems claims its CS605x family of ...

Connector system removes the need for a midplane in high ... 10/01/2012

High performance computing systems by necessity pack as many boards in an enclosure as possible. But the fact they are high performance means they ...

Identifying new applications for rfid devices 13/12/2011

The market for rf identification (rfid) devices is exploding. Active and passive tags are appearing in our cars, clothes, food packaging and luxury ...

Altera embeds ARM processors to create ‘distinct class of ... 08/11/2011

Towards the end of 2010, Altera announced what it called its Embedded Initiative, the aim of which was to speed the take up of programmable logic ...

Circular connectors continue to evolve to meet modern day ... 08/11/2011

Circular connectors have been the device of choice for many years when it comes to rugged applications. In fact, the technology dates back to before ...

Is there a trend to smaller connectors carrying more power ... 08/11/2011

Following the trend at the component level, many systems are getting smaller. While they might be getting smaller, they're integrating more ...

FPGA industry rises to the challenge of 28Gbit/s ... 11/10/2011

At last month's European Conference and Exhibition on Optical Communication, Altera demonstrated an fpga implementing a 100Gbit/s link using four ...

Faster clock speed or more parallelisation? That is the ... 04/10/2011

Baseband processors for mobile devices typically run at as slow a clock speed as possible in order to minimise power consumption, generally in the ...

Concurrency checkers can improve multicore process ... 27/09/2011

To take advantage of performance improvements provided by multicore processors, it is essential to have a good command of concurrency. Yet most ...

Optoelectronics sustaining innovation in the telecoms market 27/09/2011

Even if you have nothing to do with the telecoms industry, it is hard not to see just how rapidly and dramatically things are changing. Just a few ...

Cutting cables: Demand for wireless links is on the increase 13/09/2011

Cables are, in almost every application, yesterday's technology; if it isn't wireless, it's almost not worth considering. If you've decided that ...

Issues and solutions for variation aware custom IC design 30/08/2011

In today's highly competitive semiconductor industry, profitability hinges largely on advantageous design performance, high yield and rapid time to ...

60GHz band emerges as a complement to wifi 09/08/2011

The emergence of smartphones and tablet computers alongside digital cameras, tvs and laptops means most interactions will soon be between devices, ...

Increasing operating frequencies provide new opportunities ... 26/07/2011

People like wireless data communications: if you walk into a typical high street coffee house, you're likely to see customers updating their Facebook ...

Network processor set to support 200Gbit/s throughput 12/07/2011

EZchip has disclosed the first 200Gbit/s data plane network processor for the transport switches and edge routers used in telecom service providers' ...

The best route to avoiding counterfeit electronics 11/07/2011

It's been discussed and analysed for years, yet there does not seem to be an end in sight for the trade in counterfeit electronics.

Connectors meet the needs of high speed communications ... 29/06/2011

Communications applications are seeing datarates creeping ever higher. In the telecomms world, major routes are beginning to see data rates of ...

CMOS technology enables higher data rates over poorer ... 14/06/2011

Pressure is growing on the companies which supply telecommunications operators (telcos) to develop equipment which carries more data at lower overall ...

As interface speeds increase, will fpgas ‘see the light’ ... 24/05/2011

The advent of fpgas with optical interfaces promises to simplify high speed interfacing between and within systems. But not all fpga vendors believe ...

Wireless communication protocol promises high speed data ... 10/05/2011

The advent of devices such as the iPod, tablets and smartphones has changed the way we deal with data. Rather than storing it in particular locations ...

How hypervisors help integrate portable devices into the ... 26/04/2011

Increasingly, people are using smartphones and tablets for more than business calls: video conferencing, email, document editing, storage and oral ...

EtherCAT and Safety over EtherCAT get popularity boost 26/04/2011

While many people are familiar with the application of Ethernet technology in the office and in the wider communications market, fewer may be aware ...