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Your Boss’s Birthday Present
Flexible, powerful, and misunderstood, FPGAs are an admittedly enigmatic technology. Like the proverbial elephant amidst the blind men, the topic of FPGAs can produce a…
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Small Form Factor Boards and COM
Do you know your Micro-ATX from your COM Micro? Or your Qseven from your XTX? The small form factor arena is one of those areas…
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Attack of the Merger Machine
I lost money on the stock market again this week. The companies in question are ARC International and Virage Logic, both purveyors of silicon IP.…
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Combining Formal Verification With Simulation
It is well known that formal verification offers exhaustive proofs of correctness and can help find deep corner case bugs. Verification engineers have typically relegated…
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Linux or Commercial OS?
Watching the season premiere of “Mad Men” last week got me thinking about hair styles and those skinny neckties of the early ’60s. Exactly what…
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Seven Steps to an Accurate Worst-Case Power Analysis Using Xilinx Power Estimator (XPE)
Seven Steps to an Accurate Power Estimation As a necessary step in any FPGA design, power and cooling specifications need to be properly set in order…
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AES and Antifuses
You bring a new product to market, and, within weeks, a rival appears, one that is clearly a rip-off of your design: not just looking…
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Dante Enters a New Field
Dante would feel right at home surveying the math required to create useful circuits. He might meet some argument as to whether he was observing…
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Courage Under Fire Drill
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Power Consumption at 40 and 45nm
At 40 and 45 nm process nodes, power has become the primary factor for FPGA selection. This white paper details how Xilinx designed for this new reality in…