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Implementing Floating-Point DSP in an FPGA
Are you finding it challenging to efficiently implement floating-point digital signal processing (DSP) algorithms? Learn how Altera’s new floating-point design flow makes it easy and…
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Extreme Exposure
EUV is one of those topics that people have been talking about for a long time, and there’s been a long list of challenges in…
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Cell-Aware Fault Models for IC Production Test Outperform Gate-Exhaustive Fault Models
Physical defects within ICs, such as shorts and opens, can occur during manufacturing at any step along the fabrication process because of the complexity of…
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You Get What You Ask For
I’m mad at GE. You know, General Electric. The company that makes jet engines, dishwashers, locomotives, and medical scanners. The company that brought us Jack…
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V=IR
I am an engineering god. …a technology savant, an electronic wizard, a mathematical master, an understander of epic proportions… at least as far as my…
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A Sweetener for Research Labs
For many people, the arrival of the fall holiday season means that treats are on the way. And, for that extra bit of fun and…
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The Union of Engineers
Earlier this year the Wall Street Journal ran an article that contained this sentence: “The United Auto Workers union said it is prepared to spend…
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The Match Game
Chester was a real stickler for grammar. It started innocently enough: he would review his own memos a couple of extra times to make sure…
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Dibs!
“It was a team effort!” The group assembled nods in agreement. Most human accomplishment today is the product of some form of collaboration. Even those…
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A Maze of Twisty Little Passages
We recently invoked the fear of slipshod software programming as we attempted to slog through the maze of safety-critical standards facing software engineers. But guess…