EDN

One I/O line drives shift register with strobe

This Design Idea shows how a single microcontroller port can drive a lot of output lines through shift register. In this case we use the shift register with strobe control to achieve perfect output ...
EDN

Designs with multiple clock domains: New tools avoid clock skew and reduce pattern counts

Nothing accelerates a testability engineer's receding hairline as the addition of further clock domains to the latest SoC or IC design. Avoiding clock skew during test is becoming one of the biggest ...
Electronic Design

Design A Clock-Distribution Strategy With Confidence

Clock-distribution devices create multiple copies of a master clock and distribute them to a variety of integrated circuits. They accept single-ended or differential clock inputs and supply multiple ...
Design-Reuse

How To Interface DDR-II SRAMs with Stratix II Devices

DDR-II SRAM devices offer enhanced timing margin and flexibility. This article is a step-by-step guide to interfacing DDR-II SRAMs with Stratix II devices for high-bandwidth communications, networking ...
Electronic Design

PCI Express Clock Generators, Buffers Prepare for Next Generation

PCIe has been around since 2004. It’s a high-speed serial computer expansion bus specification that replaces older PCI and PCI-X standards. PCIe currently supports the Generation 4 specification. In ...