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In a three part tutorial, Wayne Wolf discusses why today's complex embedded designs require developers to use a formal or informal system design methodology and the features that are important in such tools. Part 3: Quality Assurance.

In a three part tutorial, Wayne Wolf discusses why today's complex embedded designs require developers to use a formal or informal system design methodology and the features that are important in such tools. Part 2: Formal specifications & informal requirements.

In this three part tutorial, Wayne Wolf discusses why today's complex embedded designs require developers use a formal specification or informal requirements system design methodology as well as the features that are important to have in such tools. Part 1: Why design methodologies?

Jack's 2009 salary survey is now out, and the data is interesting.

The author, vice chairman of the 1394 Trade Association, argues that 1394 Automotive Camera Systems provide features and functions required for automotive applications while maintaining competitive price performance.

Power Delivery Network (PDN) has traditionally been a disjointed design problem with chip, package and board engineers doing their part of the design with margins assumed for the other parts. As 45nm designs become more common and the first set of 32/28nm tape-outs start to happen, certain trends are becoming quite clear.

The authors evaluate the performance of variable- versus fixed-size memory pools in tests implementing the two approaches for LTE and WiMAX protocol stacks

The authors describe a variable pool memory management scheme that has been implemented for LTE and WiMAX protocol stacks and has exhibited excellent performance, especially when compared to traditional fixed-pool implementations.

Despite claims that the 8-bit MCU will soon be obsolete by 32-bit devices, that may not exactly be the case.

Part 1 of an excerpt from the book "Audio Engineering: Know it All" covers the basics of bipolar junction transistors and looks at some typical BJT audio circuit configurations.

The fourth and final excerpt from the book "Audio Over IP" covers bandwidth, dropped packets, delay and jitter, as well as IP and Ethernet addresses, and network diagrams.

Lauro Rizzatti at EVE-USA explains why the "Battleship Game" reminds him of trying to debug a system-on-chip (SoC) design using the in-circuit-emulation (ICE) mode.

Here's a guide from Jack Ganssle on doing software development in a disciplined way to reduce both errors and the time it takes to complete a project. Part 3: The value of postmortems

Here's a simple technique to generate a warning that your C++ code is using dynamic allocation against your wishes.

Here's a guide from Jack Ganssle on doing software development in a disciplined way to reduce both errors and the time it takes to complete a project. Part 2: The Seven Step Plan.

Here's a guide from Jack Ganssle on doing software development in a disciplined way to reduce both errors and the time it takes to complete a project. Part 1: Any idiot can write code.

Here's a guide from Jack Ganssle on doing software development in a disciplined way to reduce both errors and the time it takes to complete a project. Part 1: Any idiot can write code.

High-temperature semiconductor technologies can survive temperatures approaching 400°C, but careful design of the product is required to deliver cost-effective devices achieving stable, predictable performance.