Seven Ways to Become a Highly Effective Project Manager
By Steve Miller The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People (by Stephen R. Covey) has helped millions of people establish great habits for achieving true interdependent effectiveness in their life and their jobs. This article, Seven Ways to Become a Highly Effective Project Manager, will discuss the seven habits and frame them for highly effective [...]
QuiXilica V5 Architecture for Demanding I/O Processing
By Andrew Reddig There is an insatiable demand for increased signal performance by military sensor data processing applications for communications, radar, and electronic warfare. More channels, increased processing capabilities, higher memory performance, and greater communications bandwidth are required continually by sensors. Advanced applications in radar, EW, ELINT, SIGINT, and telecom require the performance offered by [...]
Solid State Drive Trends and Forecasts for 2009
By Joanne De Peralta The worldwide outlook for 2009 is not a positive one. The global economic crisis has pushed forecasts down to very conservative figures for most industries — including the Solid State Drive Market. Recently, IDC adjusted its Worldwide 2008-2012 Solid State Drive Forecast Update to factor in the effects of the financial [...]
Seven Ways to Become a Highly Effective Developer
By Steve Miller The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People, written by Stephen R. Covey in 1989, has helped millions of people establish great habits for achieving true interdependent effectiveness in their life and their jobs. This article, Seven Ways to Become a Highly Effective Developer, will discuss the seven habits and frame them for [...]
Debugging Analog Mixed Signal Circuits
Introduction All levels of IC design have been impacted by increasing pressure on production costs and time to market. In this situation, one of the major challenges is to avoid silicon failure or yield loss. A widely accepted statistic today is that almost half of all designs fail at first silicon. Failure costs include new [...]
Software and the Art of Business Unusual
By Michel Genard The semiconductor industry has been slowed by the current economic crisis. According to Gartner, worldwide semiconductor revenue growth in 2009 is expected to be 1%, down by approximately 7 percentage points from previous estimates. Even with the very weak economic environment, semiconductor growth was surprisingly strong until recently. However, the industry is [...]
Rapid Prototyping in a Collaborative Environment
By Dave Robertson Large organizations often struggle with innovation. Developing prototypes in either hardware or software often needs to bring together design teams and system architects who can be spread out across the world, and making this a fast and efficient process can be a struggle. Now software configuration management (SCM) tools are being used [...]
From Quality Assurance to Total Quality Management: the Future of Automated Test Standardization
By Moshe Moskovich, Co-founder and Chief Technology Officer, QualiSystems Design verification and quality assurance processes are the backbone of successful product development. Whatever the product, the ultimate goals are the same: to reduce development costs and accelerate time to market without affecting product quality.
Linux Kernel Tuning for IP Version 6 Networking
By Madepogu Rajendra Prasad Senior Software Engineer, HCL Technologies, NOIDA Abstract This paper describes the procedure for enhancing the Linux operating system with Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6) networking feature. This paper also describes the linux kernel with IPV6 networking support, booting linux desktop machines with new IPV6 network supportive kernel, and its graphical representation. [...]
Functional Test Automation without Programming
by Eitan Lavie, Product Manager, QualiSystems Introduction The need for functional test automation is increasing. Many companies have developed ‘homegrown’ software solutions to meet their automation requirements. Over time, these solutions have expanded to include additional features like data aggregation, analysis, reporting, monitoring, etc. In addition, a number of commercial test automation tools are available. [...]
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