January 15, 2008   
How to Add No-Sweat, Low-Power Audio to Your Next SOC Design
 
By Steve Leibson
Technology Evangelist
Tensilica, Inc.
If you're facing the design of an SOC with on-chip digital audio, this article will help you make the engineering tradeoffs and will take you to a successful project tape out. To do that, we'll look at your alternatives, key decision factors you should be evaluating, and the consequences of your decisions. more >>
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In this analysis of the top IP providers whose IP was used in chip estimations during Q4 2007, Synopsys and ARM have a strong showing with analog provider TCI a not too distant third.
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