Electronic Design UPDATE: May 31, 2006

1. Editor's View: Lessons Learned In Coalition Building
2. Focus on ASICs: SDIO Card Controller ASIC Supports 200-Mbit/s Transfers
3. News From The Editors:
   Existing Technologies Give Birth To New Energy Solutions
   
   ZiLOG MCUs Power Space-Elevator Prototype
   
   USB-Based Modem Chip Pares PC Bus Size
   

   Magazine Highlights: May 25, 2006
   

   Cover Feature: Virtually Real
   

   Technology Report: SystemVerilog Gains A Foothold In Verification
   

   Leapfrog First Look: USB Branches Out
   

   Design View/Design Solution: Consider Fast Ethernet For Your Industrial Applications
   

With the launch of the newly formed Power Forward Initiative (PFI), Cadence Design Systems opens yet another chapter in its long history of driving standardization in the EDA industry. This time, Cadence has set its sights on low-power design. Having identified a need—or depending on your point of view, an opportunity—in the low-power arena, Cadence has gathered an initial set of eight partners to build an industry-standard approach to the design, verification, and implementation of low-power systems-on-a-chip (SoCs)...

Arasan Chip Systems has launched the newest generation of its secure digital I/O (SDIO) card controller ASIC. The AC2200i was designed using the company’s controller IP core technology, which has been licensed by over 50 companies worldwide. The new part adds features and improves performance while maintaining pin compatibility with the previous-generation AC21C00...

This webcast will share upcoming innovations in the battery and power-management industry. Our speakers will provide an unbiased and vendor-neutral roadmap of upcoming innovations in cell chemistries, power-management electronics, authentication technology, and portable fuel cells for mobile devices. View today!

ZiLOG MCUs Power Space-Elevator Prototype
A group of students from the University of British Columbia (UBC) is working to develop a robot prototype that will be the basis of a proposed commercial space elevator that would eventually provide transport to and from space at around 5% of the cost of current methods. The prototype is being developed for a space elevator design competition sponsored by NASA...

USB-Based Modem Chip Pares PC Bus Size
The cost and size of desktop PCs can be considerably reduced using the SV92U2 internal modem chip from Agere Systems. This USB-based modem chip set, which is smaller than a die, makes it possible to reduce desktop PC bus sizes by up to 80% by eliminating the need for PCI-based modems...

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