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FPGA Verification with Assertions, Why Bother?
The benefits assertion-based verification (ABV) have been talked about for years. However, for many FPGA engineers with little time available to learn newer advanced functional…
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Harry Foster’s latest article: FPGA debugging with assertions
Transistor counts and advanced features found in today’s FPGAs have increased dramatically to compete with capabilities traditionally offered by ASICs alone. These innovations are helping…
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Broadcasting Programmability
The world of broadcast has always been a technology challenge. Consumers demand a lot from their TV programming, and they have geared up to prove…
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Reconfigurable FPMA?
Today we’re going into the world of imagination. Imagining what if, and then imagining what. Is the phone ringing? Does your computer keep pinging because…
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TLAs: QNX, RIM, ARM, CES, RPM, and MPH
I’ve got a new idea for data compression. Let’s just remove all the vowels from the English language! Sure, it may look like Welsh when…
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The Great Divide
Microprocessor and microcontroller development boards are powerful resources. They have a processor (of course) surrounded by a useful assortment of gadgets and gizmos for making…
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Machine-2-Machine Conference Call
Technology is supposed to make us more efficient, but one of the great time-wasters of all time, the meeting, has yet to disappear. OK, ok,…
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“Shiny. Let’s Be Bad Guys”
Hey, let’s talk about washing machines! Gather ’round, dear readers, as we spin thrilling yarns of engineering design, industrial espionage, and legal wrangling in the…
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The Declining Penalty of Programmability
In the early days of FPGAs, marketing was all bluster. In an effort to make their devices seem useful and, more importantly, bigger than the…
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Hedging Micro-Energy Bets
These days, more and more people talk about getting off the grid. It’s a hard thing to do, and if you’re really going to pull…