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  • Help! Help!

    Help! Help!

    In the years we’ve been covering FPGAs, the technology and the market have been expanding in all dimensions. The devices themselves have grown exponentially bigger,…

  • Arria V FPGA Sneak Peek: Transceiver Operation at 6.325 Gbps and 10.3125 Gbps

    When you want it all, Arria® V devices provide the balance of cost and performance while delivering the lowest total power. Watch this exciting hardware demonstration…

  • Low-Power Servers: Opportunity or Oxymoron?

    Low-Power Servers: Opportunity or Oxymoron?

    You knew it had to be about ARM. Everything today is about ARM. So it’s no big surprise that ARM is elbowing its way into…

  • That Old Rock and Roll

    That Old Rock and Roll

    The 50s and 60s were an amazing time for popular music. Everything felt fresh, everyone wanted to try new things, and – best of all…

  • The Annoying Valley

    The Annoying Valley

    Want to save a few bucks on insurance? If you let Progressive track your driving, you can get a discount. If you’re Japanese, want to…

  • Does Anybody Really Know What Time It Is?

    Does Anybody Really Know What Time It Is?

    “Put your hand on a hot stove for a minute, and it seems like an hour. Sit with a pretty girl for an hour, and…

  • Mitrionics Re-Emerges in HPC/Supercomputing Markets with New Ownership

    Lund, Sweden, November 15, 2011 – Mitrionics AB, developer of the Mitrion Virtual Processor and the Mitrion Software Acceleration Platform for FPGA-based reconfigurable computing, today announced its re-emergence in…

  • Implementing FPGA Design with the OpenCL Standard (REVISED)

    Utilizing the Khronos Group’s OpenCL™ standard on an FPGA may offer significantly higher performance and at much lower power than is available today from hardware…

  • Implementing FPGA Design with OpenCL – A Future Look

    Are you using FPGAs to accelerate your system? Altera is exploring a new technology for FPGAs that will provide exciting and significant productivity gains for…

  • Supercomputing

    Supercomputing

    When we hear the term “supercomputing,” each of us probably forms a different image in our head – depending on our age. For my generation,…