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  • Quartus Prime

    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…

  • Micron’s New NOR Flash Circles Back

    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…

  • System-wide Collaboration

    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…

  • CPUs Get Cheaper; Transistors Get More Expensive

    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…

  • A Tool for Designing Audio Subsystems

    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…

  • Heterogeneous Processing, SoCs and FPGAs

    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…

  • The Market for Two-Inch Windows

    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…

  • Altera’s Long Game

    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…

  • Faster ATPG and Other Test Goodies

    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…

  • The Big Grid

    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…