The new Sandy Bridge E (Enthusiast) processors are a gamer’s delight. With the new LGA2011 socket and X79 chipset, Intel Sandy Bridge-E series processors come with enhanced performance overclocking support. But is it worth the money?
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January 2012
Jan 29, 2012
Jan 26, 2012
Why you need boundary scan in your board bring-up toolset
Did you ever need a new board coming off the production line yesterday and it wouldn’t boot? It didn’t even try to come up and gave you no hint why? Typically you’d connect a debugger tool to see if you could get some signs of life. You might put some code into memory to start running some tests. But there’s no response from the processor and you can’t access any of the memory parts on the board. You’re stuck...
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Jan 22, 2012
Performance versus Conformance Testing
OEMs in the telecom industry invest in verifying the performance and conformance of the high-speed interconnects off their gear. Does the same approach apply to chip-to-chip interconnects, and in other industries?
Jan 01, 2012
Your laptop - are you getting what you paid for?
Many of us got new laptops, e-readers, tablets, and other electronics toys as gifts over the holidays. But do these machines run as fast as they’re supposed to?
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