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Virtual Prototyping - The Future's So Bright

By Filip Thoen

During the past five years, virtual prototyping has silently enabled embedded software to get past key inflection points and challenges. In the mid-2000s, the introduction of multi-core architectures was a key hurdle for embedded software, requiring considerable refactoring of existing single-threaded/-core software stacks. Virtual prototyping's debug and visibility advantages facilitated the transition. Around the same time, security hardware was introduced in leading mobile SoCs to provide the basis for a secure computing platform, enabling user services like mobile commerce. The complexity of the new security software and hostility of a physical target for development -- a device is supposed to be hacking resistant -- made a good case for virtual prototyping, which provided ample visibility into the complex secure/non-secure domain interactions and a less hostile development target. Continue Reading

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55-nm ULP Physical IP Solution for Energy-Efficient Applications

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Miniature Low-Power TCXO/VCTCXO

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Circuit Cellar #299

June 2015

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