silicon

Floorplan and packaging architecture resources for the interested software professional?

One of the more interesting things I've run into lately is the art and science of laying out chip floorplan and determining packaging for the silicon. I would like to read some materials on the subject for the "Interested Software Guy". Does anyone have any recommendations (Website or book, so long as it is a good quality)? ...

i2c on silicon image c8051f32x (using USBXpress)

I have the I2C (SMBus) working properly in this uC and have a VB GUI which can communicate over USB (using USBXpress) and do I2C transactions from the uC to a separate IC. The problem is that I am having the uC poll a register on the IC every 1s. When I do an asynchronous GUI I2C transaction, every once in a while, I believe it collides ...