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rickman wrote: > I am interviewing for jobs and I am finding more than one company that > wants me to sign a non-disclosure (ND). This is disturbing to me since > it puts me in a difficult position. Let's say I sign a ND with company A > and take a job with company B who is a direct competitor. I end up > working on a project similar to the one that company A told me about. So > because I interviewed with company A I am now liable for a lawsuit? > > Is this what a lot of companies are doing now? Are interviewees > generally willing to sign such agreements? > > I had gotten to the point where I decided that I would not "pee in a > bottle" to conduct an interview. I found that companies were using this > as a way to reject applicants without giving them a chance to object to > the drug test results. If you flunk the test because you ate a poppy > seed roll that morning, you just don't get an offer. No offer, no > challenges. > > Now they want you to sign away the right to work on a competing product > just to get an interview? Hi Rickman, I think that there are several concerns here. First, as you mention, if you sign an NDA are you liable to be personally sued? Obviously, that's a question for a lawyer. Would that be a state law or federal? Some of the other posts have comments about what it takes to be successfully sued; of course, you lose even if you win a case, as you have to go through the process. Another consideration, if you sign an NDA and not take the job, can your new employer be sued? This is probably more likely, as your new company will likely have a larger bank account and more assets than you do [no offense :-]. This might potentiall hurt your prospects as a prospective employee since you have extra baggage to carry around - baggage that you have not received any compensation for. There was recently an article about this very subject about companies being reluctant to hire engineers who worked for large firms that are known to have strong and well-used legal department. A quick search couldn't find it but it is something you should consider. If I was hiring and I had two applicants, both look just fine, and one had an NDA with a competing firm, why should I hire you and even worry about things? For some jobs, like my day job, money does not have to change hands if an NDA is violated. In some cases, this would be defined as a crime. While perhaps this is something gaining in popularity, it's been a problem for quite a while. While interviewing for some defense jobs, I have found myself in the position that the firm would not even disclose what technical field the job would be in. In fact, one couldn't find out the nature of the assignment for approximately 6 months or so after being hired until a security clearance comes through. I would suggest that you be very careful before signing anything. Any document of this nature is sure to be written by a lawyer whose interest more than likely is not yours. Good luck! And I'll keep my eye out for that recent article, I think it was in one of the recent editions of EE Times. rkArticle: 24626
That's not right. You indeed are interviewing them. You should be, anyway. It's also protection from competitors sending in undecovers to dig up info. It's protection. More people are doing it. To be honest, it's being overworked here. It's a protection agreement more than anything else. Herman <aerosoft@AerospaceSoftware.com> wrote in message news:39989511.B5CA0886@AerospaceSoftware.com... > Hi Mr Rickman, > > I won't sign it - I had the same problem recently. During an interview, > the company is interviewing you, not so much vice versa, so why would > they want a ND? You open yourself to unneccesary litigation by signing. > > There is another serious hiccup developing here in Alberta, probably in > other places as well. Electronic engineers who register as Pr Eng find > that it is impossible to obtain Prof Liability Insurance. That should > tell one something. (that you should run away screaming?) > > Firstly, it tells me that my rates are too low by a factor of 10 and > secondly, it tells me that I made the correct decision NOT to register > as Pr Eng and rather work under the protection of a Limited Company. > > Interestingly, when I read the AB Eng Prof Act, I found absolutely > nothing at all that can be remotely construed to refer to electronic > engineering, so although APEGGA would accept a willing EE's money, it > doesn't really mean anything, since there is no ground for it in the act > and secondly, the impossibility of obtaining insurance, makes it > imposible to practice that way. The EEs that do practice as Pr Eng are > taking a huge risk, so big that even the large insurance companies don't > want any part of it. So even if they do have insurance, the insurance > company will probably refuse to cough up in case of a real lawsuit, > claiming that Electronics is outside the scope of the insurance policy. > So the poor sod just paid thousands of dollars every year for nothing. > > So, as far as I can see, EEs are in a very precarious position and are > simply being ripped off. > > The only solution I see, is to incorporate and that with a tiered > structure: > Holding company --> Operating company > > Each layer of indirection increases the cost of a lawsuit to the other > party, by at least $30 000, meaning that it becomes less likely that you > will in fact be sued in the first place. > > As an example: Lawyers typically work at a rate of $180 per hour and > they have prof liability insurance, costing them about $5000 per year. > So, as an EE, to work without insurance at enormous risk, one should > have a rate significantly higher than that. Danger pay in the Army is > typically 5x normal wages... > > > Cheers, > > Herman Oosthuysen > Electronic Engineer > Member IEEE > (not registered with APEGGA) > > > rickman wrote: > > > > I am interviewing for jobs and I am finding more than one company that > > wants me to sign a non-disclosure (ND). This is disturbing to me since > > it puts me in a difficult position. Let's say I sign a ND with company A > > and take a job with company B who is a direct competitor. I end up > > working on a project similar to the one that company A told me about. So > > because I interviewed with company A I am now liable for a lawsuit? > > > > Is this what a lot of companies are doing now? Are interviewees > > generally willing to sign such agreements? > > > > I had gotten to the point where I decided that I would not "pee in a > > bottle" to conduct an interview. I found that companies were using this > > as a way to reject applicants without giving them a chance to object to > > the drug test results. If you flunk the test because you ate a poppy > > seed roll that morning, you just don't get an offer. No offer, no > > challenges. > > > > Now they want you to sign away the right to work on a competing product > > just to get an interview? > > > > -- > > > > Rick Collins > > > > rick.collins@XYarius.com > > > > Ignore the reply address. To email me use the above address with the XY > > removed. > > > > Arius - A Signal Processing Solutions Company > > Specializing in DSP and FPGA design > > > > Arius > > 4 King Ave > > Frederick, MD 21701-3110 > > 301-682-7772 Voice > > 301-682-7666 FAX > > > > Internet URL http://www.arius.comArticle: 24627
"rickman" <spamgoeshere4@yahoo.com> wrote in message news:3998A79B.EB14E9FE@yahoo.com... > "E. Robert Tisdale" wrote: > > > > rickman wrote: > > > I don't know where you got your information. I have been asked to sign a > > > non-disclosure agreement for the interview process. One company > > > specifically said that they don't feel they can conduct a proper > > > interview without revealing sensitive information. I think that is > > > nonsense! This was stated as a precondition to the interview along with > > > completing an application. It did not even come out until I asked if > > > there was anything that I needed to sign. I have been through a few > > > interviews over the years. > > > > > > I don't know that a non-disclosure would not be enforceable just because > > > I was not hired. I remember a story (of course I don't know for sure it > > > is true, but it was in the book "Fire in the Valley") that told of IBM > > > requiring Microsoft to sign that MS would not disclose any proprietary > > > info in their first meeting. Then when IBM was happy that MS had > > > something to offer, they had MS sign a ND for the second meeting where > > > IBM spilled thier beans. In neither case did the two companies have any > > > working agreements that required money to be given. The only requirement > > > for the ND contract to be enforceable in that regard is that each side > > > received "consideration". This can take many forms. > > > > > > But you are way off base telling me that you know what I was told and > > > that I don't. > > > > A non disclosure agreement wouldn't prevent you > > from working for a competitor. > > You just agree not to disclose what you learn in the interview. > > If the agreement actually prevents you from going to work > > for a competitor, it is a non compete agreement. > > Have you read the agreement? Can you post it here? > > If you need to retain a lawyer to tell you whether you are signing > > a non disclosure agreement or a non compete agreement, > > you shouldn't sign anything. Just look for work elsewhere. > > It could prevent me from working on the identical product for another > company. It would be impossible to "not disclose" information if the > product is the same and uses the same concepts. I have read about people > being sued by former employers for working on the same product for a > different company. The court in that case ruled that the new company > could not ask the employee to work on the same product, but the old > company could not require the employee to work elsewhere. The old > company was trying to enforce an agreement to prevent the employee from > working for *any* competitor. Constitutional right in the USA to be able to petition the govenernment for redress of grievences. Doesn't mean you win, just means you can be a PIA. I worked for Alza. We are the pharmacuetical company that developed things like Transderm anti motion sickness patches that are used on everything from boats to the space shuttle. Been a while, but IIRC one of Alza's employees Dr Gary Cleary, tried for years to get Alza to develop an nitro glycerin patch for angina and was consistantly rebuffed. Eventually he went to work for Key<?> in Florida and Alza immediately started filing lawsuits against him. Wouldn't allow him to present papers at professional conferences, that kind of stuff. Meanwhile at the direction of Ciba Geigy Alza started working on its own nitro patch for angina. Both Key and Alza<via CG> ended up marketing an angina patch within a few months of each other. Alza immediately started another round of lawsuits. All the lawsuits/legal manuvers essentially accomplished nothing. I think it turned out Key was working on development of a nitro patch before Alza even started or they hired Gary. This all happened in the early 80s and AFAIK Alza has not tried the same line again against any other former employee. But the case law is pretty established now. What this means is a company you have signed a NDA with may be able to get as far as discovery now, but if the lawyers find no wrong doing and still take it to court, they will just get the judges POed. From personal experience, if you get the judge PO'd at you, you can't win. > > I will have one NDA in the morning by mail. I will scan it in (without > the company name) and post it on a web site if you are interested. The > other company does not sound like they are willing to even discuss the > matter. I am waiting to hear if they will send me a copy. > > While thinking about what an employer is worried about, it occured to me > that they might be seeing a lot of applicants from their competitors. > Perhaps they think that interviewees are being sent just to try to glean > sensitive info??? And I dated a girl that worked/wrote for Data Quest. They were an industry research firm that would publish newsletters specific to certain industry markets. I never got the actual numbers, but for the sake of argument; they would have a paper on say DSPs in consumer electronics by a engineer and selling for 100s if not 1000s of dollars a copy. I don't think it was beneath them to use information gathered in interviews then offer this information forsale. They weren't the only industry research company doing it either.Article: 24628
I have followed this thread with interest. Remember that the applicant is interviewing the company just as much as the company is interviewing the applicant, and for jobs in R&D that means the applicant will be asking a large number of questions, many of which might have some significance in terms of IP. AFAIK, none of a recent group of people who I recently interviewed had signed NDA's, and I gave out very little info during the interviews as a result. Since I am involved in "mathy" stuff (numerical methods, etc.), it is easier for me to discuss topics from recent journals that might be only tangentially related to my work but will give me enough info concerning the talents of the applicant and also give the applicant a good idea of the types of things I do and what sort of person I am to work with. One thing a person should be very aware of is that when you meet with another company, in an interview setting or otherwise, there is the possibility that some sort of "inventing" might happen. IMHO, both parties should be careful about what sort of information they give out, and should be extremely careful about suggesting any sort of idea during the meeting that might be construed as an invention. If the NDA is written correctly, it not only protects the company with whom you are meeting and/or interviewing, but it also protects you. TRH -- Thomas R. Hoffend Jr., Ph.D. EMAIL: trhoffend@mmm.com 3M Company 3M Center Bldg. 201-1C-18 My opinions are my own and not St. Paul, MN 55144-1000 those of 3M Company.Article: 24629
Basically, I'm looking for a USART, and the free core I found is a UART. I agree that the 16550 is better, but where can I find it? As I said before, it's an academic project and our budget is very low. Thanks Eduardo. rickman wrote: > > What is not suitable about this core? Would a 16550 work better for you? > > The 8251 is a very old device and in not in much use anymore. The 16550 > on the other hand is in every PC made. It is part of every modem and is > often used as a common interface for special boards for which a special > driver is not required. So it will be much easier to find. > > -- > > Rick Collins > > rick.collins@XYarius.com > > Ignore the reply address. To email me use the above address with the XY > removed. > > Arius - A Signal Processing Solutions Company > Specializing in DSP and FPGA design > > Arius > 4 King Ave > Frederick, MD 21701-3110 > 301-682-7772 Voice > 301-682-7666 FAX > > Internet URL http://www.arius.com -- Eduardo Augusto Bezerra Space Science Centre School of Engineering and Information Technology University of Sussex Brighton, BN1 9QT England, UK Phones: +44 (0)1273 877086 or +44 (0)700 5568783 Fax: +44 (0)1273 678399 EIT II, room 4B11 *** UK *** mailto:E.A.Bezerra@sussex.ac.uk - http://www.sussex.ac.uk/~tapu9 Space Group's web site: http://www.sussex.ac.uk/engg/research/space *** Brasil *** mailto:eduardob@inf.pucrs.br - http://www.inf.pucrs.br/~eduardob GAPH's web site: http://www.inf.pucrs.br/~gaph *** ACM *** mailto:eduardob@acm.orgArticle: 24630
Peter, Very well answered - this is exactly the information that is very useful - and without any fuss. Cheers, Austin Peter Alfke wrote: > Patrick Schulz wrote: > > > dPlease try to read any VLSI or ASIC book that you get. > > > > This was a valid question that deserves more than a flip answer, > and "disk" (whoever you are): we can do without your vitriolic comments. > > Let's all be nice here ! > > As usual, there is a short and a long answer: > Basically, the number describes the smallest dimension achieved on the > chip, > usually the gate length of the transistors. > 0.35 microns is pretty old. We are now designing to 0.15 and even 0.13 > micron > gate length. The shorter this value, the faster the transistors, and the > smaller > the chip, and the more logic can be crammed on the largest > manufacturable > chip, about an inch square. > But also the lower the supply voltage. By a quirk, the supply voltage ( > in V ) > is almost exactly the same number as the transistor gate length ( in > microns) > times ten. So, 0.35 micron = 3.3 V, 0.25 micron = 2.5 V, etc. > Pretty scary proposition, as we are approaching 0.1 micron = 100 > nanometers. A supply voltage of 1.0 V and 10 A of Icc will be a > challenge to board designers. Just think of the decoupling requirements > ! > > Metal width tends to be somewhat larger than the min gate length. > And metal pitch is usually twice the metal width. > At 0.2 micron horizontal width, and 1 micron vertical height, the metal > lines > are not the way you usually think of them, e.g. the way they are on a > pc-board... > > It's all a matter of photolithography, using lots of optical trickery to > achieve > a resolution that is significantly smaller than the wavelength of the UV > light > being used. ( remember, the wavelength of visible light is between 0.4 > to 0.8 micron !) > The industry wants to stay with optical methods as long as > possible, since X-rays or e-beam are far more expensive. > > Peter Alfke, Xilinx Applications -- ------------------------------------------------------------ Integrated Silicon Systems Ltd. Tel: +44 28 90 50 4000 50 Malone Road Fax: +44 28 90 50 4001 Belfast BT9 5BS Web: www.iss-dsp.comArticle: 24631
Patrick, Thanks for your help - much appreciated. Austin Patrick Schulz wrote: > Austin Tempany wrote: > > > > Patrick, > > Can you suggest a suitable text book - something practical that gives me the basic knowledge. > > Cheers, > > Austin > > -- > > ------------------------------------------------------------ > > Integrated Silicon Systems Ltd. Tel: +44 28 90 50 4000 > > 50 Malone Road Fax: +44 28 90 50 4001 > > Belfast BT9 5BS Web: www.iss-dsp.com > > Austin, > > I don't know a book especially for test, because it comes mostly with synthesis. > > But there is a book containing the whole asic design flow, including test, which doesn't go in > details, but cover the whole flow. > "It's the Methodology, Stupid!" Kurup, Abbasi, Bedi ByteKDesigns, Inc. ISBN 0-9663301-0-2 > > But be aware it's facile. > > The whole I know comes from the user guides and tutorials from synopsys, they are really good. > > Patrick > > -- > Patrick Schulz (schulz@rumms.uni-mannheim.de, pschulz@ieee.org) > University of Mannheim - Dep. of Computer Architecture > 68161 Mannheim - GERMANY / http://mufasa.informatik.uni-mannheim.de > Phone: +49-621-181-2720 Fax: +49-621-181-2713 -- ------------------------------------------------------------ Integrated Silicon Systems Ltd. Tel: +44 28 90 50 4000 50 Malone Road Fax: +44 28 90 50 4001 Belfast BT9 5BS Web: www.iss-dsp.comArticle: 24632
I am working on a multi-FPGA project using Virtex series parts which we want to be able to program via the JTAG interface. I have the Xilinx JTAG parallel port cable as well as the alliance programing s/w, and they work fine. However, I want to be able to program (and possibly perform some boundary scan tests) from within my own home brew software. I've played around a bit and found that, while I can access the parallel port and still leverage the Xilinx cable, I am unable to get nearly the port performace the Xilinx software gets. (less than half...120Kbps vs 300Kbps). Ive played with different parallel port modes, but the fast modes (EPP and ECP) require peripheral side handshaking, and I don't want to deal with that. Because we are using about 16 FPGA's in our design, programming time is a factor. Is there source code available to help with this task, or is there someone knowledgeable in parallel ports who would help me out with this??? Just for reference, here's the schematic for the Xiliinx cable I want to use: http://toolbox.xilinx.com/docsan/2_1i/data/common/jtg/fig26.htm Thanks, Steve BermanArticle: 24633
Anyone having trouble forcing I/O registers into the IOC registers in the Lattice 8K family? I am using Synplicity as my front end and in the HDL analyst I can see my input and output registers with the appropriate buf in front (ie. Ib11 or ob11). However, when I go into the Lattice tool (targetting an 8840V family- I get no IOC registers in the report file. I have two clock domains on the device and I put them on clock 0 and clock 2 so they both goto the IOC blocks, still the report file shows no IOC registers. All flops use the global async reset. Any help- suggestions?Article: 24634
Thank you everybody for your help. After trying a Free-IP FIFO core that David Kessner kindly provided me with I finally tracked the problem down to be not a FIFO related. It was glitches in a circuit responsible for forming write/read enable signals. Regards, /MikhailArticle: 24635
rickman wrote: > > Any idea of how much further this can be pushed? I really do not know, and I am not an authority on this subject. I just jumped in with a few non-controversial tutorial comments. And I will always fight to keep the tone here civilized. :-) Peter AlfkeArticle: 24636
With an NDA, there is "consideration" which goes something like this: In exchange for your "promise" not to blab to our competitors about what we are doing, and how we are doing it, I'll share with you what I consider to be very valuable information. NDA are enforceable! However, my understanding is that non competitive agreements ARE iffy and US courts usually won't enforce them unless they are very carefully written and executed and you live in the wrong state. TRUE STORY I once had an interview with the company that was interested in my knowledge of neural networks. They said the application was "classifying" metal and I wanted to know more. They wouldn't tell me anything until I signed an NDA. After I signed the NDA, they brought me back to the warehouse where they had a machine they had build which shined light on coins (yes money) at different angles. The software was trying to classify the coin for how good it was: surface scratches, ware, discoloration, etc. The owner of the company was a coin collector and wanted to make a business out of making a machine which would classify coins. I guess he thought the idea was so good that he thought he had to protect it. Jeff Stout Jon Kirwan <jkirwan@easystreet.com> wrote in message news:6gCZOdv1qlaZ1v4Ngbmq+9pPdmZe@4ax.com... > On Tue, 15 Aug 2000 04:07:23 GMT, "Neil Judell" > <njudell@optimalsystemslab.com> wrote: > > >In this country (US), a contract is not valid unless there is an exchange of > >value. If you don't get anything of value in exchange for the promise of > >silence, then it isn't a contract. The company would be VERY hard-pressed > >to claim that a job interview has value. > > I believe that is true. Same is true of many non-competes, as well. > Some States specifically forbid most of them, as does Oregon here. > > JonArticle: 24637
Hi,
I am about to design a digital PLL for carrier recovery circuit in
FPGA, and would like to know if there is a good book or online reference
on this topic. It would be helpful if there is a design example that I
could learn from it. Thanks.
Artur
8.15.2000
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On Tue, 15 Aug 2000 19:39:05 -0500, "Jeff Stout" <jeffstout@mylinuxisp.com> wrote: >With an NDA, there is "consideration" which goes something like >this: > >In exchange for your "promise" not to blab to our competitors >about what we are doing, and how we are doing it, I'll share with >you what I consider to be very valuable information. NDA are >enforceable! I think that's one of the arguments from one side. But if that's all there is to it, it doesn't sound very solid to me. The enforceability comes more from the threat of a larger organization willing to say they may take you to court, than from their actual ability to succeed a well-fought case. There is no value obtained from someone showing you something you cannot use anywhere else. No value at all. >However, my understanding is that non competitive agreements >ARE iffy and US courts usually won't enforce them unless they >are very carefully written and executed and you live in the >wrong state. That does appear to be true. JonArticle: 24640
> Baugh-Wooley is a parallel algorithm by definition. Its like asking how do > you do parallel multi CPU processing on a single CPU. Answer you don't. You Well, that's what I thought when looking at the algorithm, but I believe having seen a publication using a bit serial Baugh-Wooley multiplier (it was some time ago, and I cannot find it!, anyway, I remember that it does not describe it). > might want to ask what would be a good bit serial algorithm. Could you advice a serial-serial (not serial-parallel) constant multiplier to implement on XC4000 series? Cheers. Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/ Before you buy.Article: 24641
Eduardo Augusto Bezerra wrote: > > Basically, I'm looking for a USART, and the free core I found is a > UART. I agree that the 16550 is better, but where can I find it? As I > said before, it's an academic project and our budget is very low. > > Thanks > > Eduardo. The opencores UART is loosly based on the 16550 I believe. I have emailed with the author of that core and we may work together to convert it to a 16550. But it is also not a USART. If you need a USART device, the 85C30 is a very common device with a large base of software, but I know of no core for it. It is also a much more complex device than the 16550 and would take a lot more work to design. Why do you need a core and not a chip? The 85C30 is very inexpensive ($5) although not terribly small (44 pin PLCC). -- Rick Collins rick.collins@XYarius.com Ignore the reply address. To email me use the above address with the XY removed. Arius - A Signal Processing Solutions Company Specializing in DSP and FPGA design Arius 4 King Ave Frederick, MD 21701-3110 301-682-7772 Voice 301-682-7666 FAX Internet URL http://www.arius.comArticle: 24642
Patrick Schulz wrote: > Rick, > > I know of a alternative lithography method currently used in MPW runs, which is called Direct Slice > Writing (DSW). They use electron-beams to write patterns directly onto a wavers resist layer and can > achieve resolutions up to 0.07um. But of course that is too expensive for mass production. > The lithography people say that wavelengths below 0.13um become unusable, because materials for > lenses and masks become completely absorbant at this wavelength. Therefore, feature sizes below > 0.10um could not be managed by common lithographic methods. > > Patrick Then what is planned beyond .10 um? This is not very far away as .12 um is currently being set up in the latest fabs under construction I believe. Certainly they must know what is planned for 0.08 um since it is likely only two years away (or maybe less). -- Rick Collins rick.collins@XYarius.com Ignore the reply address. To email me use the above address with the XY removed. Arius - A Signal Processing Solutions Company Specializing in DSP and FPGA design Arius 4 King Ave Frederick, MD 21701-3110 301-682-7772 Voice 301-682-7666 FAX Internet URL http://www.arius.comArticle: 24643
Here is the latest. I have received both NDAs and they are rather one sided. Unfortunately they both have numerous references to the company's names all through the documents, so I will not be able to post them for a couple of days when I have more time to edit them. In a nutshell here are the two summaries. A) A "biotech" company that uses patented technologies to make their products unique and solesourced. I have been presented with a combined application, list of employment contingencies and NDA. The employment contingencies are: Signing "proprietary and non-disclosure agreement" Form I-9 Passing a physical exam (they are a biotech company, so there is exposure risk) Verification of application info NDA includes: Long discription of "CONFIDENTIAL INFORMATION" without specifics. Example: "diagnostic methods and instruments based on electro....ence" [altered to protect identity]. a) (many company names) may disclose CONFIDENTIAL INFORMATION to Applicant, but that b) Applicant will not disclose his/her confidential information to (many company names). list of non-applicability such as "information received from a third party"... time limit on agreement of 5 years. other items that are not of major concern to me. B) A telecom company that I know very little about. "1. "Confidential Information" means all information disclosed by XXX hereunder that should reasonably be understood by Recipient, because of legends or other markings, the circumstances of disclosure, or the nature of the information itself, to be proprietary and confidential to XXX, and includes information relating to XXX business." The usual limitations of stuff that is already known or is later released to the public. Releases due to legal requirements like being ordered by a court to disclose. term limit of 1 year. a lot of other legal stuff. So most of what is in the documents is not overly onerous. But there are a few things that I will be objecting to. The requirement by company A that I not disclose information will limit my discussion of what I am currently working on. Both agreements will need to be amended to list the "confidential" items disclosed. I will let you know how goes the interview with company A tomorrow. -- Rick Collins rick.collins@XYarius.com Ignore the reply address. To email me use the above address with the XY removed. Arius - A Signal Processing Solutions Company Specializing in DSP and FPGA design Arius 4 King Ave Frederick, MD 21701-3110 301-682-7772 Voice 301-682-7666 FAX Internet URL http://www.arius.comArticle: 24644
Hello all, I need to implement small fifo's, with 2 diiferent clock domains. They need to be 4 bit wide, and 16 deep. Can anyone suggest how to implement these fifo's without waisting lots of ram using the blockram devices, since they com in 4096bit, and i only have 12 of them, and i need more than 12 fifo's. I have looked at the xilinx site, but they only have notes subscribing the use of blockram, and the other notes using single ram, have the same clock domains. Regards, Richard. Ps. the device i am targeting is a spartan2. -- Quest Innovations tel: +31 (0) 227 604046 http://www.quest-innovations.comArticle: 24645
I'm developing a kit to be used in the lab sections of a data communications course. My goal is to have a generic board which can be used in different courses. For instance, in a microprocessors course the students will be able to use the same board to learn how to program a RISC CPU or an 8051 microcontroller. That's the reason why I want to use cores instead of the real chips. Eduardo. rickman wrote: > > Eduardo Augusto Bezerra wrote: > > > > Basically, I'm looking for a USART, and the free core I found is a > > UART. I agree that the 16550 is better, but where can I find it? As I > > said before, it's an academic project and our budget is very low. > > > > Thanks > > > > Eduardo. > > The opencores UART is loosly based on the 16550 I believe. I have > emailed with the author of that core and we may work together to convert > it to a 16550. But it is also not a USART. > > If you need a USART device, the 85C30 is a very common device with a > large base of software, but I know of no core for it. It is also a much > more complex device than the 16550 and would take a lot more work to > design. > > Why do you need a core and not a chip? The 85C30 is very inexpensive > ($5) although not terribly small (44 pin PLCC). > > -- > > Rick Collins > > rick.collins@XYarius.com > > Ignore the reply address. To email me use the above address with the XY > removed. > > Arius - A Signal Processing Solutions Company > Specializing in DSP and FPGA design > > Arius > 4 King Ave > Frederick, MD 21701-3110 > 301-682-7772 Voice > 301-682-7666 FAX > > Internet URL http://www.arius.com -- Eduardo Augusto Bezerra Space Science Centre School of Engineering and Information Technology University of Sussex Brighton, BN1 9QT England, UK Phones: +44 (0)1273 877086 or +44 (0)700 5568783 Fax: +44 (0)1273 678399 EIT II, room 4B11 *** UK *** mailto:E.A.Bezerra@sussex.ac.uk - http://www.sussex.ac.uk/~tapu9 Space Group's web site: http://www.sussex.ac.uk/engg/research/space *** Brasil *** mailto:eduardob@inf.pucrs.br - http://www.inf.pucrs.br/~eduardob GAPH's web site: http://www.inf.pucrs.br/~gaph *** ACM *** mailto:eduardob@acm.orgArticle: 24646
Hello, I synthesised my project in xilinx foundation 2.1. During synthesis occured the error: clock variable 'intoCounter' is being used as data; Why the problem coccur and what i should do? With regards Tomek T.Brychcy@ime.pz.zgora.plArticle: 24647
On Wed, 16 Aug 2000 10:08:13 +0200, "Tomasz Brychcy" <T.Brychcy@pz.zgora.pl> wrote: >Hello, >I synthesised my project in xilinx foundation 2.1. During synthesis occured >the error: >clock variable 'intoCounter' is being used as data; >Why the problem coccur and what i should do? What you should do is post the fragment of code that is causing the problem so we can look at it. >With regards >Tomek >T.Brychcy@ime.pz.zgora.pl Philip Freidin Mindspring that acquired Earthlink that acquired Netcom has decided to kill off all Shell accounts, including mine. My new primary email address is philip@fliptronics.com I'm sure the inconvenience to you will be less than it is for me.Article: 24648
rickman wrote: > > Then what is planned beyond .10 um? This is not very far away as .12 um > is currently being set up in the latest fabs under construction I > believe. Certainly they must know what is planned for 0.08 um since it > is likely only two years away (or maybe less). The swerve to non-optical lithography like N:1 projection electron-beam lithography, 1:1 proximity X-ray litho, projection ion litho and all-reflective Extreme-UV litho. Please don't ask what they are, I found this catchwords in Veendricks VLSI-book. I have no more information about that. Sorry, Patrick -- Patrick Schulz (schulz@rumms.uni-mannheim.de, pschulz@ieee.org) University of Mannheim - Dep. of Computer Architecture 68161 Mannheim - GERMANY / http://mufasa.informatik.uni-mannheim.de Phone: +49-621-181-2720 Fax: +49-621-181-2713Article: 24649
I'm looking for Altera FL-BGA 672 pins (ep20k300e or other) structure - library (olb) for ORCAD, if u have so plz send it to skalarv@hotmail.com Best Regards Ron
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