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  • Balancing Power, Performance, and Cost with Arria V FPGAs

    If you ever had to make the tough decision between performance and power, watch this webcast. Our Arria® V FPGAs have been optimized to ensure you have…

  • Meeting the Low Power Imperative at 28nm (REVISED)

    This white paper describes how Altera’s 28nm devices enable product developers to control power consumption in today’s increasingly power sensitive applications.

  • Best Practices for FPGA Prototyping of MATLAB and Simulink Algorithms

    Best Practices for FPGA Prototyping of MATLAB and Simulink Algorithms

    As the complexity of modern FPGAs and ASICs increases, engineers are discovering that verification using HDL simulators alone is not enough to fully test system-level…

  • Measuring Air

    Measuring Air

    How fast is your browser? Not fast enough, I’m sure. But pinning down the actual speed of a Web browser is a tricky thing. It…

  • Accelerate Your Video Design with an FPGA and IP Cores

    What do you do when your product requires fast turnaround for a simple display? Or what alternative do you have when your end product demands…

  • ARMed and Dangerous

    ARMed and Dangerous

    Are you in or are you out? If you’re out, this is for you. If you’re in, it’s a review. It’s an ARM core decoder…

  • Embedded Device Security in the New Connected Era

    Embedded Device Security in the New Connected Era

    Rapid growth in the intelligence and interconnectedness of embedded devices is accompanied by an upward spiral in security threats. Attacks on these devices are being…

  • Shut Up and Drive

    Shut Up and Drive

    “Remember when the radio was the best part of your car?” Remember when that advertising slogan ran? It was about 1975, I think, in a…

  • Kicking It Up

    Kicking It Up

    Quietly and steadily, the FPGA company that pretends not to be an FPGA company is growing and expanding – careful never to use the F…

  • Moving MEMS to the Mainstream

    Moving MEMS to the Mainstream

    As MEMS and sensors continue to move into the mainstream, they garner more and more floor and session space at conventions. While this is often…