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Enabling 100-Gbit OTN Muxponder Solutions on 28-nm FPGAs
The rapid growth in bandwidth required to support video and broadband wireless is straining communication networks. The current 10-Gbit OTN infrastructure is facing bandwidth exhaustion…
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Integrating 100-GbE Switching Solutions on 28-nm FPGAs
With high-speed 100-GbE communication network standards converging, switching functions play a key role in the smooth functioning of the Internet. The aggregated network traffic doubles…
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Extending Transceiver Leadership at 28nm
Efficiently supporting ever-increasing system bandwidth needs by attaining higher data rates and achieving greater integration is becoming an ever-greater challenge. This paper is an architectural…
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High Voltage, Precision, Battery Stack Monitor
Linear Technology announces the LTC6802®, a highly integrated multicell battery monitoring IC capable of measuring up to 12 individual battery cells. Using a novel stacking…
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Extensible Processing Platform Ideal Solution for a Wide Range of Embedded Systems
Delivering unrivaled levels of system performance, flexibility, scalability, and integration to developers, Xilinx’s architecture for a new Extensible Processing Platform is optimized for system power,…
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Unlock New Levels of Productivity for Your Design Using ISE Design Suite 12
In addition to the anticipated performance improvements commensurate with the production release of a Xilinx tool suite, the release of ISE v12 software unveils significant…
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Reducing Switching Power with Intelligent Clock Gating
The intelligent clock-gating optimization feature introduced in ISE Design Suite v12 greatly simplifies the effort to reduce dynamic power in FPGA designs. The traditional approach to…
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Enabling High-Precision DSP Applications with the FPGA Industry’s First Variable-Precision Architecture
The silicon DSP architecture of the FPGA can make a big difference when implementing complex signal-processing algorithms. Altera’s Stratix V FPGAs, with the variable-precision DSP…
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Enabling High-Precision, High-Performance DSP With Variable-Precision DSP Architecture
High-performance signal-processing designs increasingly require higher than 18-bit precision and even a range of precisions across the datapath. You’re probably seeing these requirements in traditional…