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Don’t React, PreAct!
Is it just me, or are things becoming even more exciting than they already were? I’m not sure if it’s just because I’m getting older,…
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Intel Heats Up and Expands its Agilex FPGA family
Last month, just before Intel FPGA Technology Day (IFTD) 2023, the company made several announcements regarding its flagship Agilex FPGA families. The announcement reminded me…
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It’s Time to Learn More about Timing
As I wrote in a recent blog, not knowing all the stuff I don’t know didn’t come easy. I’ve had to read a lot of…
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Accelerating and Reducing the Cost of Semiconductor Process Development
Before I turned to the dark side to become the world’s greatest technical writer of my generation (at least, according to my mom), I used…
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AMD Unleashes an FPGA-based Kria SoM Specifically for Motor Control
The modern world literally runs on electric motors. They’re used in every aspect of manufacturing, logistics, and transportation. Back in the earliest days of electric…
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Intel plans to spin off FPGA group as an independent company nine years after buying Altera
On October 3, CEO Pat Gelsinger announced Intel’s plan to spin out the company’s Programmable Solutions Group (PSG) – the group that was once known…
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Edward Keonjian: The High-IQ, Armenian-American Forrest Gump of Microelectronics, Part 5
By 1963, Edward Keonjian had earned a PhD in electrical (radio) communications in the USSR, survived World War II and the siege of Leningrad, escaped…
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Boosting the Efficiency and Performance of Silicon Chips with a Special Epitaxial Layer
Did you ever see the Doctor Who episode “Vincent and the Doctor”? This starts with the Doctor and his companion, Amy, visiting a Vincent van…
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Edward Keonjian: The High-IQ, Armenian-American Forrest Gump of Microelectronics, Part 4
The launch of Sputnik by the Soviet Union on October 4, 1957, was a red flag to the US government. It signaled the USSR’s development…
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Is This the Ultimate Chiplet Interconnect Technology?
I love the smell of fresh chiplets in the morning, but I bet you hear that all the time these days. As you may recall,…