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Big Board Blowout
As FPGAs have gotten larger and larger, the target audience for the biggest, baddest devices has grown smaller and smaller. These days, the audience has…
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Just Who Is the Customer?
Successful products are all about making customers happy. Or perhaps about fulfilling a need – I don’t know too many people that are happy each…
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Damn You, Autocorrect!
There’s a blog post making the rounds from a German PhD student who discovered that some photocopiers can spontaneously change the numbers on printed documents.…
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Pro-Strength Tools
We’ve talked a lot in these pages over the last decade about FPGA design tools. If you’ve been following along in your readers, you know…
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Expensive Silicon
Depending on whom you talk to, Moore’s Law says that something doubles every 18-24 months. It might be speed or number of transistors. But these…
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Avoiding the SoC Verification Iceberg
It is a truth universally acknowledged, that an SoC in possession of well-verified IP, must be ready for tape-out. With due apologies to Jane Austen,…
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Raindrops on Roses and Whiskers on Kittens…
Many years ago, I said that there are two kinds of programmers: those who admit they hate x86 processors, and liars. Over the intervening years,…
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Systems on Interposer
The term “SoC” has been in use for about two decades now. Systems-on-Chip were a great idea, of course. Over the years, as we marched…
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IoT Breakdown
Not long ago we covered the launch of Ayla Networks, whose goal is to simplify creating the Internet of Things (IoT). It sounded straightforward enough…
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Malcolmy: Entrails, Crystal Balls and Spreadsheets
How do you know what is going to happen to you and your business in the future? In earlier times, you might have gone to…