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Certifiable Software
Be afraid. Be very afraid. That car you’re driving? There’s probably a bug in the control software that could, at any moment, introduce you to…
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Do Instruction Sets Matter?
Nerd trivia: Name the microprocessor with the “Old McDonald Instruction,” EIEIO. Give up? Or more importantly, did you even understand the question? There was a…
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GEN2 Serial RapidIO and Low Cost, Low Power FPGAs
System designers will continue to be under pressure to produce higher performance systems yet maintain lower build and operational costs. DSP and Network Processing Unit…
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Supporting Enterprise-Grade Flash with Programmable State Machines
This white paper presents how the latest advances in FPGA technology support programmable state machines to support a dynamic RAID architecture using enterprise-grade flash memory. The…
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Cloak and Smoke and Dagger and Mirrors
“Heeeyyy, them’s some real nice FPGAs you got there.” “Why, thank you.” “Yeah, my brother and me – we was just discussin’ how you got…
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There’s Something About Many
It doesn’t take an old-timer to notice that traffic in Santa Cruz sucks. The number of people has grown, and it’s still relying on the…
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Marrying Flexibility and Complexity
FPGAs are an excellent choice for speeding the silicon realization of complex digital signal processing (DSP) algorithms. However, the flexibility of the fabric cannot supplant…