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When Smaller is Better
There has been a lot of chest-beating over the years about who had the biggest, fastest FPGA in all the land. Countless press releases, PowerPoints,…
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A Flat-Earth Memory
At present, we have two distinct electronic worlds. On one side, we have the tried-and-true world of semiconductors. Characteristics: small, high-performing, more expensive, solid and…
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Mimicking Touch
Kids goof around with all kinds of things, not knowing what will occur. It’s how they learn how the world works, and it’s why they…
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Undo Your Mistakes at the Customer’s Site
“Programming will be the last job on the planet.” – Jaan Tallinn, co-creator of Skype and Kazaa Even hardware is software these days. With a…
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MathWorks Targets Hardware/Software
The year 2011 saw a signature development in the FPGA industry – the introduction of two new programmable SoC devices. Xilinx introduced the Zynq-7000 All…
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DIY Clocks
I should probably start with a confession. Clocks and oscillators have never been my strong suit. I get the concept of oscillation and I get…
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Get to Market Faster with Modular Circuit Design
The concept of designing, validating and then reusing functional blocks in integrated circuits (ICs) has been entrenched in the electronics industry for decades. Software development…
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Ambiq Apollo MCU Gets Funky With Voltage
“Reality is that which, if you stop believing in it, doesn’t go away.” – Philip K. Dick We all work with the same laws…
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Verifying Your Awesomeness
If a clock tree fails in a forest, and there are no vectors to catch it… Verification has always been the black sheep of the…
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EDA for SETs
A few weeks back, we tackled the concept of a single-electron transistor (SET). And we saw how they could be arranged in a hexagonal form…