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Like a Thunderbolt from the Blue
You know the old story about closing the patent office because everything had already been invented? Well, we can shut down the embedded-microprocessor industry now.…
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Soft Everything
We talk a lot in these pages about programmable this and programmable that. In our efforts to make slivers of silicon do our increasingly complex…
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The New Silicon Productivity Gap
Scaling is a wonderful thing. As we’ve been able to put more and more transistors in less and less space, all we have to do…
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New Episode – Design Starts and Revisions – Designing With Altium Series
Altium has many customers using Altium’s tools to help overcome their design challenges. Altium’s tools support a unified design approach, bringing together many aspects of…
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Revitalizing the Chip Startup Environment
[Editor’s note: this is the second in a series of articles on revitalizing the chip environment in Silicon Valley. You can find the first article…
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An Object Lesson
Objects are bad, some say. Material possessions, things, belongings – they detract from the true essence of being, some say. They are to be shed,…
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Who’s the Competition Now?
Life is simple in a duopoly. They say that nothing unites people more than a common enemy. If you want everyone in your company to…
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More Ears for Better Sound
Let’s say you’re going to a rock concert that you know is being recorded for a live album. OK, live CD. No, never mind, a…
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Integrating High-Level Synthesis Designs into SoCs with Less Effort and Risk
High-Level Synthesis (HLS) has many benefits for integrated circuit design but also introduces challenges for integration into SoCs. This paper proposes solutions that improve HLS…