Powering SoCs: Where Do the Regulators Go?

Increasingly sophisticated SoCs, integrating many system components onto a single die, have in general simplified the system designer’s job. But these chips have made the power-delivery subsystem more complex. What used to be a straightforward task of routing Vcc from a supply connector to the ICs has become the design of an active network as […]

From Glue Logic to Subsystem: Altera’s Second Decade

The year was 1994. The U.S. Space Shuttle fleet was in regular service. The world watched in fascination as comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 broke up and crashed into Jupiter’s atmosphere. The Channel Tunnel realized a centuries-old dream, connecting England and France. Achieving the undreamt-of, the Provisional Republican Army ceased military hostilities in Northern Ireland. In the […]