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Single-Event Upsets (SEUs) and Medical Devices
As process nodes for integrated circuits (ICs) continue to shrink, their susceptibility to single-event upsets (SEUs) due to high-energy particles rises. Specifically, it is the static…
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Power Supply Transients on RTAX-S and RTSX-SU Devices
Single-event effects (SEE) during operation of power regulators can cause the output of the regulator to be as high as the regulator input for short durations, on…
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Next-Generation Packaging for CRM Applications
With smaller electronics, more options can be fit into the package, allowing for features such as RF transceivers for wireless communication, advanced sensors to optimally…
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Convenience Trumps Quality, Every Time
It’s not the features, stupid. We all want to make better products. Hell, most of us would be happy just shipping the product at all,…
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Putting the User First?
A mathematics professor was in full flow in a post-grad seminar. The board was covered in formulas, and, as he finished writing an equation, he…
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Using Low Cost, Non-Volatile PLDs in System Applications
The system market is comprised of applications in telecom infrastructure, computing, high end industrial and high end medical. Power supply sequencing, voltage and current monitoring,…
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Embedded Signal Processing Capabilities of the LatticeECP3 sysDSP Block
Field programmable devices are continually being adopted in new market segments, where they are being implemented as mainstream logic devices. These new market segments are…
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LatticeECP3 Family
The LatticeECP3™ (EConomy Plus Third generation) family of FPGA devices is optimized to deliver high performance features such as an enhanced DSP architecture, high speed SERDES…