Why does everyone in my family except me have such a problem remembering to charge their mobile devices? I religiously plug my Blackberry into the charger every night when I go to bed. But the rest of my family are always complaining their phones, iPods etc. have no power just when they want to go out.
My wife is especially the worst culprit. Even though the charger remains permanently on in our … Read More
Tags: Low Power
My wife and I have a small tradition of buying a joke Christmas present for one another. Sometimes they are just plain silly. For example, one year my wife brought me a book with the title “Everything Men Know About Woman”, it contained 300 blank pages! This year I got my own back and bought her a wireless electricity usage monitor called OWL. Naturally see was delighted, hmmm.
Anyway, I connected … Read More
Tags: Low Power
I’m sitting in Munich airport. Snowflakes swirl softly in the air outside. I am waiting for my connecting flight. In front of me, an extra large flat screen TV hangs off a pillar, in the waiting area by the boarding gate. On the news, images from Copenhagen and the Climate Change Conference: protesters and diplomats in HD pixels; close-ups of nuclear plants and melting icebergs mirrored throughout the … Read More
Tags: Low Power, Catapult C Synthesis
In a very thorough article published yesterday, Electronic Design’s David Maliniak takes a close look at ESL tools and how they are taking center stage as designers move up the abstraction ladder. The article reviews the details of the two major additions in the latest release of Catapult C: low-power optimizations and control-logic synthesis.
“Launched in 2004, Mentor Graphics’ Catapult C has seen … Read More
Tags: Low Power, Control-Logic Synthesis
Whether for creating greener electronic products, complying with environmental regulations or extending a battery-powered device’s operating time; low-power design is becoming a necessity for most new applications.
Mentor Graphics recently announced significant advances for low-power design through its Catapult C high-level synthesis tool. During the synthesis process, a tool like Catapult C will … Read More
Tags: Clock-Gating, Low Power, DAC
On June 29, Mentor Graphics’ Catapult C Synthesis team unveiled breakthrough enhancements leading the way to full-chip synthesis. After pioneering C synthesis in 2004 and hierarchical synthesis in 2006, Catapult C now introduces groundbreaking technology around control-logic synthesis and low-power optimizations.
The control-logic synthesis extensions significantly widen the application scope of high-level … Read More
Tags: Control-Logic Synthesis, High-Level Synthesis, Catapult C Synthesis, Low Power