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Achieving SerDes Interoperability on Altera’s 28nm FPGAs Using Introspect ESP
Introspect Technology has implemented its award-winning Introspect ESP embedded signal integrity analyzer on Altera’s high-end 28nm transceiver FPGAs. The result was a game-changing ability to…
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HLS versus OpenCL
If you have a visit with Xilinx and Altera these days and ask them about FPGA design methods above and beyond RTL, you’ll get very…
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Extending Silicon Convergence with Technology Innovations at 20nm
Altera’s technology innovations in 20 nm devices will move customers’ designs up the silicon convergence continuum by providing them the ultimate system-integration platform to achieve…
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Extending Transceiver Leadership at 28nm
High-speed serial protocols with increased data rates and expanded capabilities are addressing the demand for more network bandwidth. Efficiently addressing the subsequent increase in system…
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Automotive Vision
When you head out onto the road, your car is managed by a sophisticated parallel processor: your brain. That computing engine is able to do…
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Sinking the Itanic
“This is the way the world ends / Not with a bang but a whimper.” Those last lines from T. S. Eliot’s The Hollow Men…
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FPGA Wars
The FPGA market is, in many ways, a microcosm of the explosive and volatile semiconductor industry. FPGAs leapt to the front of the line in…
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An Actual Carbon Circuit
Go to any of the many semiconductor-related conferences, and you’ll see talk upon talk about 20- and 14-nm technologies. About planar transistors flipping up on…
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An Independent Evaluation of Floating-Point DSP Energy Efficiency on Altera 28nm FPGAs
Altera recently introduced a floating-point design flow intended to streamline the process of implementing floating-point DSP algorithms on Altera FPGAs, and to enable those designs…
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SmartFusion2 Lowest Power FPGAs
The SmartFusion®2 system-on-chip (SoC) FPGA is differentiated from other FPGAs by its low power capabilities that enable orders of magnitude lower power operation for low…