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Quartus Prime
It can be tough being in the lead. For years, one of the brightest spots for Altera Corporation in the FPGA market competition with archrival…
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Micron’s New NOR Flash Circles Back
It feels just a little bit like a long arc that may actually be looping back onto its origin. Back to the future. Or perhaps…
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System-wide Collaboration
The electronics and semiconductor markets have always been very competitive, and the ongoing consolidation trend has raised the stakes even higher. Additionally, significant investments must…
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CPUs Get Cheaper; Transistors Get More Expensive
“…but there are also unknown unknowns: the ones we don’t know we don’t know.” – Donald Rumsfeld Some things we know; some things we don’t…
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A Tool for Designing Audio Subsystems
One way of looking at the Internet of Things (IoT) is to think of it as endowing machines with human characteristics – in particular with…
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Heterogeneous Processing, SoCs and FPGAs
Firstly – if you are an existing FPGA user, you may not find much that is new in this piece, but really, it is not…
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The Market for Two-Inch Windows
Well, it’s finally come to this. The PC has shrunk to the size of a single chip. Oh, sure, we’ve had single-chip computers before. But…
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Altera’s Long Game
We wrote a lot in these pages (even long before it happened) about the market and technology trends and pressures that led to Intel’s bid…
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Faster ATPG and Other Test Goodies
One of the notable skills repeatedly demonstrated by director Robert Altman was the ability to take a number of smaller stories and knit them together…
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The Big Grid
How would you like to control the world’s biggest dimmer switch? You’d be almost like a comic book supervillain, able to dim the lights of…