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  • A Tailored Approach to FPGA Process Selection

    This white paper examines three categories of process characteristics, relates them to the internal structure of modern FPGAs, and then, in turn, looks at the…

  • Tracing Rays in Real Time

    Tracing Rays in Real Time

    It’s not every day that an embedded design project results in claims of fundamentally changing the way an industry works. To be clear, new products…

  • Breaking the Balance

    Breaking the Balance

    For two decades, the FPGA market has been a well-balanced duopoly – a yin and yang cocktail of equal but opposing forces arranged in perfect…

  • A Smoother Sidewall

    A Smoother Sidewall

    It’s probably fair to say that no single processing step has done more to enable MEMS than deep reactive ion etching (DRIE). And the poster…

  • Support All Industrial Ethernet Standards on Your Next “Drive” Design

    This white paper looks at Industrial Ethernet implementation options from the point of view of the factory automation vendor developing slave systems, such as I/O…

  • Lawyers, Bankers and Engineers

    Lawyers, Bankers and Engineers

    Next week I will be at the three ring circus that is the embedded world trade show in Nuremberg, Germany. My diary is packed with…

  • Introducing VTOS for Embedded Hardware Verification

    An environment for functional testing, peeking and poking memory, bus discovery and a powerful scripting because today’s embedded hardware design tools do not address the design test…

  • A Functional Test Approach for Counterfeit, Substandard, and High Risk Microcircuit Detection

    The production and distribution of counterfeit parts is rising and finding their way into consumer and military devices. As counterfeiters get more sophisticated, so must…

  • Lessons From the Old Clock Tower

    Lessons From the Old Clock Tower

    Back in the old days, they really knew how to make clocks. Their energy sources were less than ideal – usually a big tensioned spring…

  • Backplane Applications with 28nm FPGAs

    This white paper covers the challenges of backplane applications and how to use the features of Altera® Stratix® V GX and GS FPGAs to address…