Edn Magazine February 3, 2011

FEB 3 Issue 3/2011 www.edn.com A new twist on design chain Pg 50 The design-to-cost imperative and customer value Pg 10 Signal Integrity: Take the fifth Pg 17 Design Ideas Pg 43 VOICE OF THE ENGINEER Tales from the Cube: Tower of babble Pg 54 YOUR SMART PHONE PERFORMANCE DEPENDS ON GLOBALFOUNDRIES. THAT’S WHY THE WORLD’S LEADING HANDSET CHIP SUPPLIERS DEPEND ON US FOR A WIDE RANGE OF DEVICES SUCH AS POWER MANAGEMENT IC’S ON OUR AWARD-WINNING 200mm 0.18μm TECHNOLOGY, TRANSCEIVERS AND WIRELESS CONNECTIVITY IC’S ON BOTH 200 AND 300mm TECHNOLOGIES, AS WELL AS BASEBAND AND APPLICATION PROCESSORS AT 45 AND 40nm, WITH NEW DESIGNS UNDERWAY AT 28nm. GLOBALFOUNDRIES DELIVERS. U The success of the next generation of mobile products depends on their ability to deliver PC-like performance, a highly integrated rich media experience and longer battery life. U GLOBALFOUNDRIES presents a revolutionary system-on-chip (SoC) platform, enabling breakthrough chip performance with lowest cost and lowest power. This significant platform for mobile products is enabled by GLOBALFOUNDRIES’ leadership in a wide array of foundry technologies from our award-winning 200mm technologies, to leading edge 28nm semiconductor technology. GLOBALFOUNDRIES MANUFACTURES THE FULL ARRAY OF HANDSET IC’S SUCH AS: Power Management ICs made that integrate RF components, High voltage BCD transistors, and non-volatile memory in a single chip. Slim modems and RF IC’s integrated with baseband processors. Connectivity peripheral chips that integrate WiFi, Bluetooth, FM, GPS … Application processors that power the world’s smart phones and tablets. With its 28nm platform, GLOBALFOUNDRIES not only leads the foundry industry, but is leaping ahead of the world’s largest semiconductor integrated device manufacturer, providing an advanced SoC platform for developers that will deliver new performance levels and ease-of-use features far ahead of the competition. The transition to this 28nm technology platform is an inflection point for wireless technology and products. From baseband and application processors, to transceivers, power management, bluetooth, WiFi, GPS and much, much more, GLOBALFOUNDRIES is revolutionizing next generation mobile products. www.globalfoundries.com/mwc FEB 3 Issue 3/2011 www.edn.com A new twist on design chain Pg 50 The design-to-cost imperative and customer value Pg 10 Signal Integrity: Take the fifth Pg 17 Design Ideas Pg 43 VOICE OF THE ENGINEER ADVANCES IN ENERGYSTORAGE TECHNOLOGY POWER WIRELESS DEVICES Page 26 UNDERSTANDING EMBEDDED-SYSTEM-BOOT TECHNIQUES Page 18 LOWERING THE COST OF MEDICAL-IMAGING R&D Page 36 Tales from the Cube: Tower of babble Pg 54 Agilent InfiniiVision 7000B Series (MSO and DSO models) Bandwidth: 100 MHz - 1 GHz Tektronix 4000 Series 40% bigger screen. 475,000 times faster…Yes, really. Waveform update rate wvfm/s Waveform Update Rate Comparison 100,000 80,000 60,000 40,000 50,000 95,000 95,000 95,000 60,000 20,000 0 Agilent MSO7104B Tektronix MSO4104 Notes: 95,000 2,300 Baseline: Analog channels only, timebase 20 ns/div. Change timebase to 10 ns/div 125 Turn on MSO channels 35 Enable deep memory 0.2 Turn on serial decode A scope’s real world performance depends on more than just bandwidth and sample rates. It takes an ultra fast update rate to capture infrequent events and display the most accurate signal detail. That’s where Agilent 7000B Series scopes really stand out. Thanks to a proprietary chipset, you get faster update rates not only in analog mode, but in every mode. That’s why you see greater signal detail. That’s Agilent. · Me