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Big Software and Little Chips
Did you hear the one about Microsoft and the patent lawyers? They have to stop selling Microsoft Word! No, seriously. Last week a judge found…
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Samplify Supercharges ADC
FPGAs end up in the thick of the datapath in most applications today. Whether the device is bridging between incompatible protocols, blasting bits over a…
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IP Interface Standards
Standards are a tricky business. They require cooperation between competitors to be successful. They require companies with well-entrenched proprietary positions at the feeding trough to…
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Dueling DACs
1888. One thousand eight hundred eighty eight. That’s the number of conference attendees reported in the “Preliminary Attendance Figures” for the 46th Design Automation Conference…
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DAC Cetera
“The coldest winter I saw was the summer I spent in San Francisco,” quipped Mark Twain. It’s good to know some things never change. The…
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Getting Your Clock Cleaned
Power reduction continues to ride high on the hit parade, with companies of all shapes and sizes attacking it from numerous angles. We’ve taken a…
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Parallel Cores and C
Did you hear the story about the fabless semiconductor company that began shipping a family of 10 different devices within months of being founded? Or…
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Better, Stronger, Faster
If you’re into fast 32-bit processors, Samsung is announcing a new ARM-based chip that runs at 1 GHz. That in itself is interesting, but what’s…
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Taming Process Development
– You mean we’ve got to do another run? – Yeah, we decided we didn’t quite check enough temperature points, so we’ve got one more…
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Hardware Innovation is Dead
Back in the days of the dot-com boom, I used to go to processor conferences several times a year. Every one of these events was…