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Designing for the Long Haul
There is a story in the American South about two “country boys” who walk into a lumber yard and ask to buy some wood. The…
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SimCity Sure Isn’t Bespin
If you’re one of my ten-million or so fellow “mayors” of SimCity, you haven’t had a good week. Apparently getting handed the key to your…
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ARMing Embedded
While the rest of the world, with some minor exceptions, is seeing decline in trade shows/exhibitions etc, embedded world, in Nürnberg, Germany, continues to grow…
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Shipping the Future
Altera announced this week that production shipments of their high-performance Stratix V 28nm FPGAs have begun. While we’ve been talking for a couple of years…
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Are RTOSes Dead?
The world no longer needs RTOSes. Linux can do it all. Or so it was suggested at the recent RTECC conference, where none other than…
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Reducing Power Consumption and Increasing Bandwidth on 28nm FPGAs (REVISED)
Lower power consumption and higher bandwidth are now the two dominant requirements in designing next-generation high-end applications. The global trend across multiple markets is for…
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A Bigger Packet Pipe
Multicore is familiar territory in the communications world. That application area is arguably where the most sophisticated multicore practitioners operate. Unlike other embedded areas, like…
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MATLAB to Hardware
Quick! What’s the fourth largest EDA company in the world? Most of us in the industry can rattle off the “Big 3” right? “Daisy, Mentor,…
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EUV Gets Closer to Hitting the Mark
It was one of the main themes at this year’s SPIE Litho conference: what are the alternatives to extreme UV lithography? This question was based…