By Mark Pittman, Vice President of Asia Pacific Sales, MIPS Technologies

Market uncertainty across the globe is forcing companies in all industries to reexamine priorities and expenditures. One place that semiconductor companies can clearly save is by licensing third party IP for the undifferentiated areas of their chips such as processors and analog functionality. By outsourcing these areas, chip makers can save considerable resources and focus on creating unique differentiation elsewhere in the chip.
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Real-Time Embedded Multithreading: Using ThreadX and MIPS

Interview with the Author

We sat down with Dr. Edward Lamie, Professor Emeritus of Computer Science, whose book, Real-Time Embedded Multi-threading Using ThreadX and MIPS, was recently published by Elsevier-Newnes publishers. Here is what he had to say about the new textbook.

“This is a book that emphasizes the development of real-time embedded multithreaded systems. The book begins with a discussion of general concepts and terminology, moves on to a specific demonstration system for illustration, investigates the salient features of the MIPS processor, explores thoroughly the services and features of ThreadX...” Read More

Partner Showcase: AudioCodes

In the past 10 years, Voice over IP (VoIP) has emerged as an alternative to traditional Telephony (PSTN), allowing a reduction in costs and increased capacity on long-distance telephone calls. While providing for lower costs and greater flexibility on converged voice and data networks, VoIP in general failed to deliver better-than-PSTN quality, mainly due to the 3.4 KHz bandwidth limitation of legacy narrowband speech codecs. Read More

MIPS Data Conversion Solutions

An interview with João Vital, MIPS Vice President of Data Conversion

What are the biggest challenges today for SoC developers when integrating Data Conversion solutions?
... Data Converters, like other high-performance analog functions, explore the limits of what is achievable in modern deep-submicron processes that are developed mainly for digital designs. Read more