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Does the Hype Get in the Way of the Message?
I know most of you reading this are engineers and consequently never allow emotion to get in the way of logical decision making. So it…
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The Isolated Life
[Editor’s note: this is the fourth in a series of articles derived from a session at this year’s ISSCC that focused on sensors and energy…
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The Vision Thing
“If I could find it, I could fix it!” So ran the advertising copy for a new logic analyzer, circa 1995. The sentiment is a…
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Board Market Mysteries
We talk a lot about chips around here – custom ICs, FPGAs, embedded processors, memories – silicon gets a good bit of coverage in the…
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Kissing or Cussing Cousins?
What’s the difference between a FinFET and a FD-SOI transistor? 90°. Admittedly, that’s the abridged version. And it would be met by howls of protest…
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Better FPGAs, Sooner
FPGAs built on the latest 28-nanometer (nm) manufacturing processes can host designs as complex as a five-million-gate ASIC. That’s good news for designers who need…
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Let’s Get Small
Intel really has two businesses: selling microprocessors and manufacturing silicon. The two are related in obvious ways, but they’re not actually the same thing. Most…
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Altera’s New Power Tool
One thing was crystal clear in last week’s Embedded Systems Conference in San Jose. FPGAs with embedded processors are about to take over the world.…
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Gearing Up for Rain
We don’t seem to mind the rain much. I mean, yeah, we’ll carry an umbrella if we think it might rain (except for places like…
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Conquer FPGA Design Complexity with System-Level Integration
Having trouble meeting deadlines? Is your FPGA design growing but when you look around, your team is still the same size, or worse, smaller? Do…