Electronic Design

Friday, October 29, 2004

Electronic Engineering Webcast - FPGA


Listen to Max Maxfield live during Electronic Designs live Webcast - here's the blurb. Renown author and speaker Clive "Max" Maxfield will moderate this timely Webcast on complex FPGA designs. The webcast will be an interactive event, allowing participants to ask questions — via email or phone calls — of a panel of experts. In addition to Max and the webcast host, John Blyler (Sr. Editor), the Webcast will feature experts from Mentor (vendor of FPGA design software tools), Xilinx (provider of FPGA hardware chips and IP) and an experienced designer (Tom Dillon, president of Dillon
Engineering).

Tuesday, October 19, 2004

Advances in Signal Integrity Testing

Advances in Signal Integrity Testing
This technical seminar will focus on new techniques and technology for signal integrity testing. Topics covered will include methods an engineer can use to test the effect of probe loading on signal shape, techniques for checking the affect on signal integrity of some new scopes which use DSP to boost bandwidth and next generation capability to deskew both timing delay and DC gain/offset at the probe tip when testing multiple signals. Examples will be given of real signals in practical applications including serial data streams and microprocessor/memory systems. This seminar is targeted to hardware design engineers who need to verify proper circuit performance or troubleshoot problems.