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Reusable analog intellectual property (IP) refers to analog and mixed-signal IP blocks that can be reused across multiple chips. They may be designed by a chip vendor or licensed from a third-party IP vendor or a design services company. Typical analog IP blocks include, for example, operational amplifiers, analog-to-digital converters, digital-to-analog converters, phase-locked loops, delay-locked loops, serializer/deserializer transceivers, filters, voltage references, radio-frequency modules, voltage regulators and analog comparators. While some functions such as data converters have become quite viable as IP functions, others have not from the reusability point of view.
Industry:Technology
Financial gain expressed as a percentage of funds invested to generate that gain.
Industry:Technology
Financial gain expressed as a function of an enterprise’s investment in information technology.
Industry:Technology
A measure of a company’s financial performance (net income divided by the value of the stockholders’ equity, and expressed in percent).
Industry:Technology
A nomenclature and philosophy that goes beyond the traditional return on investment (ROI) concept by focusing the metric or calculation on how competitiveness is affected by investment. A good way to visualize and quantify the overall return on IT competitiveness is to build a spider diagram that identifies and maps all the relevant dimensions of competitiveness within a given industry sector, and then measure the changes in the overall mapping area during a given time interval (e.g., a year).
Industry:Technology
Number of mobile devices ceasing to be in use during a given year. The retirements figure is complicated by the existence of secondhand equipment. When a used mobile device from one region is sold in another region in conjunction with a new connection, the device is not added to the sales-to-end-user line, but it is accounted for in the installed baseline. A high number of secondhand sales may lead to a negative figure for retirements.
Industry:Technology
This category includes the additional collection of sales applications required for a retail environment. It includes point-of-sale applications for recording sales transactions, usually a cash register and merchandising software.
Industry:Technology
The retail execution and monitoring technology identifies tasks and enables the execution of in-store activities by field sales personnel or third-party sales agents on behalf of consumer goods manufacturers. These activities include promotional activities, asset management, retail audits and proof-of-performance information collection.
Industry:Technology
Retail digital signage refers to applications that disseminate dynamic media content to displays or monitors on the sales floor of a retail store. It is sometimes referred to as narrowcasting, interactive signage, electronic signage networks, digital communications or digital media networks.
Industry:Technology
The time period between a terminal operator’s completion of an inquiry and the receipt of a response. Response time includes the time taken to transmit the inquiry, process it by the computer, and transmit the response back to the terminal. Response time is frequently used as a measure of the performance of an interactive system.
Industry:Technology
