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Electronic Scalpel
Brain surgery is a complicated process. After all, they don’t call it “brain surgery” for nothing. And it’s not a one-man show: it’s a team…
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Power to See
[Editor’s note: this is the fifth in a series of articles derived from a session at this year’s ISSCC that focused on sensors and energy…
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How Vulnerable is Your Language?
At ESC last month, Green Hills’ Dan O’Dowd made the point that, increasingly, software is becoming the dominant element in an embedded product: it is…
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Leading Lattice
Darin Billerbeck looks out of place and restless in the dark, heavy, ostentatious ambiance of Lattice Semiconductor’s boardroom. Like a well-trained athlete donning his grandfather’s…
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No Escape
There’s no such thing as “true black.” I mean, there’s the idea of it, the aspiration, but, so far, we have not been able to…
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Industry’s First 28-nm High-End FPGA Running at 14.1 Gbps
Get an initial look at the industry’s first 28-nm high-end FPGA. In our Stratix® V FPGAs, you’ll get devices featuring: An industry-record 3.9 billion transistors One…
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Optimize Power and Cost with Altera’s Diversified 28nm Device Portfolio (REVISED)
This white paper describes the power and cost advantages of Altera’s diversified 28-nm FPGA portfolio that is tailored for a wide range of applications. This…
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Putting a Spin on Motor Control
More than 180 years ago, a bunch of guys started messing around with harnessing electromagnetism – building devices that converted electrical energy to mechanical energy. …
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Packing Them In
The world of PC boards – or, as they seem to be more widely called in the official literature, “printed wiring boards” or PWBs –…
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Are You Into Soft Core?
“Pssst! Hey, buddy… wanna download some wild new soft core—for free?” If you’re tempted by that offer, Altera has got a deal for you. The…