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  • Analog at 20

    Analog at 20

    Analog designers bear a heavier burden than many other designers. If you’re a digital guy, someone is out there creating cells for you, abstracting away…

  • Beaten Up By Bad Bytes

    Beaten Up By Bad Bytes

    I try to be good. I really do. I eat my vegetables, help old ladies cross the street, and floss my teeth occasionally. I maintain…

  • The Elephant in the Cloud

    The Elephant in the Cloud

    The Cloud… Oh, the Cloud. Always right there, the answer to all our IT problems, and yet… and yet… for designers, the promise seems to…

  • Delivering the Right Power and Performance for 28nm High-End FPGAs

    From process selection through design and into production, the designer’s focus is on having the highest performance at the lowest possible power. Altera’s innovations in…

  • Implementing Efficient Low-Power PCIe Interfaces with Low-Cost FPGAs

    A history of architectural and process advancements has enabled Altera® Cyclone® V FPGAs to be used in numerous low-cost and low-power applications in the industrial,…

  • Seeing Into the Distance

    Seeing Into the Distance

    It’s been made into a big deal, and you can thank Avatar. Once a goofy movie gimmick that required glasses you wouldn’t get caught wearing…

  • Secure Your Communications

    Secure Your Communications

    Sun Microsystems’ cofounder Scott McNealy’s quote from January, 1999 (was that really 14 years ago?) was more right than we imagined—or hoped. Online bank accounts…

  • A Matter of Integrity

    A Matter of Integrity

    Board design and layout used to be so simple. All you had to do was make sure that all the metal parts that were supposed…

  • Completing the Set

    Completing the Set

    Remember when you were a kid, playing with Legos? You could build tons of things with it – maybe. It depended on the size of…

  • Implementing Digital Processing for Automotive Radar Using SoCs

    This white paper shows the feasibility of implementing the digital processing portion of a representative radar system using low-cost Cyclone® V SoC FPGAs. Advantages of…