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Chip design and verification

Design with FPGAs

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Digital video, image, graphics, and multimedia processing

Chip Design

The best way to keep on top of cutting edge chip design problems, solutions, and methodologies

TLA Three Letter Acronym

OVM Open Verification Methodology

VMM Verification Methodology Manual

ABV Assertion Based Verification

STA Static Timing Analysis

OCV On Chip Variation

DVFS Dynamic Voltage and Frequency Scaling

SAIF Switching Activity Interchange Format

DFT Design for Test

ATPG Automatic Test Pattern Generation

DFM Design for Manufacturing

The CE Food Chain

consumer electronics are made with chips

chips are madewith IP cores

IP Cores

IP cores are like blueprints and their designers like architects.

IP companies do not make chips but instead license their designs to chip makers.

YAP IP

Your Advanced Processor

a cache coherent symmetric multicoresuperscalar 32-bit RISC-DSPwith 128-bit SIMD extensions

as a GNU toolchain target and Linux host

The world’s first multicore programmable video processor capable of HD 1080p decoding H.264 and other codecs

Wikipedia Articles

IP cores IP core vendors

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Programmable video DSPs

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Image Processing

progressive scan

interlaced

letter box

frame scaling

frame rate

System Data Flow

A partial exampleof a systemdata flow diagram

Interpolation

1D interpolation (audio)

2D interpolation (image) 3D interpolation (video)