From marketing requirements to product development – a systematic approach

Jan 28, 2016  |  Author : Deepak Shankar
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In an ultra-competitive world, price would be the only competitive aspect for people stuck with incremental product manufacturing creativity and brutal negotiation with suppliers. For all others, it is about innovation and invention. New capabilities can be accomplished with innovative system design, brute force engineering or complete overhaul. An innovative system design requires a mechanism […]

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Improving Power Management to gain product success

Jan 12, 2016  |  Author : Deepak Shankar
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Power is ubiquitous to the success of any product.  Be it heat dissipated, insulation weight or battery-life, all weigh in the success or failure of a product.  In this post, we will discuss on how power consumption influences the success of the product. Role of power Understanding the rate of power generated in various user-modes […]

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Do multiple processor cores yield higher performance?

Jan 05, 2016  |  Author : Deepak Shankar
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Using multi-cores implies higher performance – is it the truth or myth? Well, in this blog, we will analyze the role of multi-core Processors in improving the performance. According to the GeekBench test results, Apple iPhone 6 with dual core A8 Processor has a higher performance rating for applications and memory activity compared to the […]

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Eliminate Distributed System Design Risks

Dec 16, 2015  |  Author : Deepak Shankar
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Performance analysis and early architecture exploration minimizes new technology adoption risks and optimizes the resulting system specification. Early design exploration can validate the specification for performance, power and functionality at an accuracy of 85-90% of the real system. Design Explorations early in the design flow reduces development time by over 30%, reduces implementation re-spins, and […]

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Right Design Decisions with Early System Exploration

Dec 09, 2015  |  Author : Deepak Shankar
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Creating a new System-on-Chip (SoC) for streaming video with a MPEG application requires a number of decisions to be made before development is scheduled. The design would have some amount of existing hardware and software components in the SoC. The new application such as H.264 application will have some known and mostly unknown characteristics. These […]

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