DSL is one of the main technologies enabling the delivery of Broadband to homes in different parts of the world. This article by Ramakrishnan Parasuraman, takes you through a brief tour of the evolution of Broadband and then slowly unravels the insider mechanics of DSL. Being a DSL engineer working at Texas Instruments, he would know.

ASIC's accommodate complete systems on a single chip. This tutorial discusses the steps involved in a typical ASIC design flow.