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A Look Into How a High-Level Synthesis Design Flow Benefits Verification Turnaround
Introduction The design and re-use productivity benefits of SystemC-based high-level-synthesis (HLS) are generally well understood. However, a major benefit of moving to this level of…
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It’s Raining MCUs Over Texas
Texans know clouds. Whether he’s a rancher or a farmer, your basic Texas agriculturalist makes his living looking at the sky and knowing which way…
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ARMing a New Generation
The future of FPGA-based processors is coming into focus. Altera just announced that the processor architecture for their upcoming “Generation 10” Stratix FPGA family will…
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3D IC Flow Challenges
Cadence recently announced a design flow for CoWoS 3D ICs. We’ve looked at some of the issues surrounding 3D IC technology before, but what we’ve…
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Shift Left
Everyone knows that, when developing software, you are going to have to spend a lot of time testing: identifying the bugs that are causing the…
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Imagination Deploys a MIPS Warrior
In the never-ending battle of good versus evil, Coke versus Pepsi, NASCAR versus opera, and ARM versus MIPS, the MIPS brigade has fielded a new…
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FPGAs Fuel (Sensor) Fusion
Sensors are literally taking over the world. Projections vary as to actual numbers – some say we will reach a trillion – but it is…
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Bad Touch a Mile High
There’s nothing like 10 hours in the air to help you get intimate with a piece of technology that you must stare in the face…
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Chilly Reception at the Junction
Hypres recently announced an upgrade of their commercial superconducting circuit fab from four layers to six. OK, whoa whoa whoa whoa there… If you’re like…
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Do Engineers Even USE Social Media?
It’s a myth with several variations… “Engineers aren’t really on twitter” “Engineers only use Facebook for personal use. None of them are looking at work-related…