Another vote for automotive Ethernet – now on FPGAs
Last month Broadcom said its BroadR-Reach automotive Ethernet portfolio can reduce connectivity costs by up to 80 percent and cabling weight by as much as 30 percent. NXP Semiconductors licensed BroadR-Reach and intends to create automotive-grade products for the Ethernet physical layer.
NXP noted in its announcement that major car manufacturers are designing with Ethernet as a high-bandwidth, low-cost … Read More
Tags: NXP Semiconductors, IEEE 802.1 AVB, Xilinx, Broadcom, automotive Ethernet, EAVB, FPGA, BroadR-Reach, Digital Design Corp.
Mentor Graphics has just revealed the program for its upcoming Integrated Electrical Solutions Forum (IESF) 2011. If you’re not familiar with IESF, it’s one of the world’s leading events for design engineers, engineering management, and executives in the military and aerospace (mil/aero) industry. Even better, it’s free and in a great summer locale: the Marriott Long Beach hotel, in Long Beach, Calif. … 
Last week I attended the Embedded World show in Nuremberg, Germany. I have been to this event most years and it just seems to get bigger and bigger. I have not seen the latest detailed statistics, but they claim to be the largest embedded exhibition in the world and I think that there is every reason to believe this claim is valid. The event is well organized and the location makes a lot of sense.
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Last week, I interviewed two designers at Broadcom for a customer success story. This was another very interesting project and the empirical results of their story are quite impressive.
The focus of the Broadcom story is I/O Designer. If you’re not familiar with “IOD” and you design boards incorporating FPGAs, ASICs or any large-pin-array IC, you really should take a look at our I/O Designer webpage.
The … 
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