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  • What’s Yours Is Mine

    What’s Yours Is Mine

    Arrrr, Captain, we’re abeam o’ the port now. When do we start the shellin’ and the pillagin’ and the mayhem? Now, just hold yer fire…

  • 28Gbps Serial Transceiver Technology (HD 1920×1080)

    If you need to stream data at 100, 200 or 400 gigabits per second, check this out: 16 channels at 28 gigabits each gives you…

  • Hardware Programmability

    Learn how FPGAs allow you to customize for your specific needs while enabling you to protect your differentiation in the marketplace.

  • Mapping Out Research in Northern Europe

    Mapping Out Research in Northern Europe

    There’s a large technology organization in Europe that doesn’t sell anything tangible. In fact, it’s not a commercial entity at all. And yet they create…

  • Too Big to Fail

    Too Big to Fail

    Intel’s Itanium chip is 10 years old. Ten years of designing and building one of the biggest, fastest, and most complex microprocessors ever made. And…

  • Passing the Prototyping Torch

    Passing the Prototyping Torch

    You might think FPGA companies wouldn’t care much about people doing FPGA-based prototypes.  After all, these aren’t the people that design an FPGA into their…

  • Mini-Meter

    Mini-Meter

    Think of it as scaling down a smart meter. We used to characterize the power into our homes with one number per month. OK, two:…

  • Only 10 Days to Shipping … We May Have a Memory Problem!

    How many times have you been in a situation working with a new system where the board bring-up occurred without any major problems manifesting themselves…

  • Embedded Display Interfaces

    This is part one of a multi-part white paper series on effectively testing embedded display systems. Effectively testing embedded display systems requires a clear understanding…

  • Effectively Testing The Display Pixel Interface (DPI)

    This is part two of a multi-part white paper series on effectively testing embedded display systems. This function requires a clear understanding of the various…