Jack Horgan EDA Weekly SpringSoft a major EDA company with an interesting name and a more interesting business model In May SpringSoft made news by acquiring and merging several companies in which it had previous held equity …

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Dr. Russ Henke & Dr. Jack Horgan EDA & IP Commentary Commentary: Electronics IP Industry - An August 2008 Update

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SPICE Circuit Handbook - Chapter 1, by Steven M. Sandler.

Introduction to PCI Express: A Hardware and Software Developer's Guide, by Adam Wilen, Justin P. Schade, Ron Thornburg.

GlobalTRONICS 2008 at Suntec Singapore - Sep 9 - 12, 2008

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Taking the Mystery out of the Infamous Formula, "SNR=6.02N + 1.76dB," and Why You Should Care, You don't have to deal with ADCs or DACs for long before running across this often quoted formula for the theoretical signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) of a converter. …

MT-005: Noise Power Ratio (NPR) – A 65-Year Old Telephone System Specification Finds New Life in Modern Wireless Applications, The concept of Noise Power Ratio (NPR) has been around since the early days of frequency division multiplexed (FDM) telephone systems. The NPR is simply a measure of the …

Fusion Design Flow Tutorial, Based upon the successful Actel ProASIC3/E architecture, the Actel Fusion devices integrate a configurable 12-bit successive approximation register (SAR) analog to …