Testbenches have become an integral part of the design process, enabling you to verify that your HDL model is sufficiently tested before implementing your design and helping you automate the design verification process. It is essential, therefore, that you have confidence your testbench is thoroughly exercising your design. Collecting code coverage statistics during simulation helps to ensure the quality and thoroughness of your tests.
Testbenches have become an integral part of the design process, enabling you to verify that
your HDL model is sufficiently tested before implementing your design and helping you automate
the design verification process. It is essential, therefore, that you have confidence your
testbench is thoroughly exercising your design. Collecting code coverage statistics during simulation
helps to ensure the quality and thoroughness of your tests.
NanoStack is a 6lowpan IPv6 + IEEE 802.15.4 protocol stack, enabling wireless embedded and sensor networking. The goal is to help 6lowpan spread globally and to encourage new features from the IETF and ISA100 to be implemented and tested.
Abstract: This application note illustrates an intermediate 8V switching power supply for an automotive radio and infotainment system.The design withstands the complete automotive input voltage range (including cold crank and load dump conditions), assuring a stable8V supply for common subsystems such as a CD driver, LCDs, and a radio module in modern infotainment systems. To avoiddisturbance in the AM and FM bands, the switching power supply runs at a fixed frequency of 2MHz, enabling an ideal solution forradio systems.
The LTC®3414 offers a compact and efficient voltage regulatorsolution for point of load conversion in electronicsystems that require low output voltages (down to 0.8V)from a 2.5V to 5V power bus. Internal power MOSFETswitches, with only 67mW on-resistance, allow theLTC3414 to deliver up to 4A of output current with efficiencyas high as 94%. The LTC3414 saves space by operatingwith switching frequencies as high as 4MHz, enabling theuse of tiny inductors and capacitors.
The PCA9516 is a BiCMOS integrated circuit intended forapplication in I2C and SMBus systems.While retaining all the operating modes and features of the I2Csystem, it permits extension of the I2C-bus by buffering both the data(SDA) and the clock (SCL) lines, thus enabling five buses of 400 pF.The I2C-bus capacitance limit of 400 pF restricts the number ofdevices and bus length. Using the PCA9516 enables the systemdesigner to divide the bus into five segments off of a hub where anysegment to segment transition sees only one repeater delay.
The PCA9517 is a CMOS integrated circuit that provides level shifting between lowvoltage (down to 0.9 V) and higher voltage (2.7 V to 5.5 V) I2C-bus or SMBus applications.While retaining all the operating modes and features of the I2C-bus system during thelevel shifts, it also permits extension of the I2C-bus by providing bidirectional buffering forboth the data (SDA) and the clock (SCL) lines, thus enabling two buses of 400 pF. Usingthe PCA9517 enables the system designer to isolate two halves of a bus for both voltageand capacitance. The SDA and SCL pins are over voltage tolerant and arehigh-impedance when the PCA9517 is unpowered.
The PCA9518 is a BiCMOS integrated circuit intended forapplication in I2C and SMBus systems.While retaining all the operating modes and features of the I2Csystem, it permits extension of the I2C-bus by buffering both thedata (SDA) and the clock (SCL) lines, thus enabling virtuallyunlimited buses of 400 pF.
