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  • Using FPGAs for Trapezoidal Motor Control

    Whether the need is for quieter blower fans in air conditioning systems, or greater efficiency under dynamically changing load conditions for an electric car drive-train,…

  • Design Made Easy With the SmartFusion Customizable System-on-Chip and State of the Art Software Tools

    Since the early years of embedded processor design and FPGA design, silicon advancement and design techniques for each have evolved independently. In the real world…

  • Understanding the Impact of Single Event Effects in Networking Applications

    Reliability of communication is essential in networking applications. The goal of five nines (99.999%) in network availability translates to less than six minutes in downtime…

  • SmartFusion Customizable System-on-Chip: Intelligent, Innovative Integration

    The whole point of an FPGA is flexibility. We could also mention integration and say instead that the whole point of an FPGA is flexibility…

  • Getting All GUI

    Getting All GUI

    As kids we’re taught “don’t judge a book by its cover” and that “appearances can be deceiving.” But we also learn that “beauty is only…

  • Abstracting Out

    Abstracting Out

    Engineering is a beautiful blend of science and art, discovery and creation, discipline and imagination. For those who are pure scientists, there is only discovery.…

  • Are Mobile Devices Embedded Systems?

    Are Mobile Devices Embedded Systems?

    If an embedded system can move while operating, is it still an embedded system, or is it now a mobile device? This is a question…

  • When Things Start to Think

    When Things Start to Think

    The title this week is borrowed from the book by Neil Gershenfeld, which includes one of the best descriptions of embedded systems that I’ve ever…

  • Tabula Taps Intel

    Tabula Taps Intel

    We all knew it was coming, but Tabula “officially” announced this week that they are producing their next yet-to-be-announced family of FPGAs on Intel’s 22nm…

  • Real-World Issues at 28 nm

    Real-World Issues at 28 nm

    Semiconductor technology just gets curiouser and curiouser as feature sizes shrink. In real life, that means that EDA tools have to work harder and harder…