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Counting the Cost of 2008
It’s been a funny old year, has 2008. Traditionally this is the time to pull your chair close to the fire, grab a glass of…
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Auld Langxiety II
Should 2008 be forgot, and never brought to mind? Should global economic downturns be ignored, and days of auld lang syne? A few years…
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Layout-Aware Diagnosis of IC Failures
With increasing size and complexity of ICs and limitations in traditional physical failure analysis tools, failure analysis engineers need help determining the root cause of…
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And That Makes 1
A look outside confirms it. The sky ranges from dull white to steely dark gray. An occasional glimpse of blue is quickly corrected to bring…
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Keeping Power Under Control
Nothing should be simpler than turning the power on and off. It’s just a switch. Switch it on; switch it off. Easy peasey. Right? Well,…
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Power Considerations In FPGA Design
It is clear that systems operators regard power as a significant operating expense. These constraints trickle down to system designs and the boards that comprise…
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Verayo Leaves Tiny Fingerprints on Chips
How do penguins tell each other apart? For that matter, how to barnacles, or pigeons, or orangutans recognize each other (we know how dogs do…
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Starting From Scratch
“You’re ready for tape-out already??” “Yup!” “Um… “ “And it meets all specs? In all corners and modes?” “It should.” “What do you mean, it…
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Disziplin Muß Sein*
Software development processes can vary dramatically. If you program only occasionally as a hobby, like me, then you dream up what you want to do…
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Low Cost Reconfigurable Computing Cluster Brings Millions of Reconfigurable FPGA Gates to Students
Building on commodity hardware and industry standard software programming methods, Baylor group architects a $10,000 reconfigurable computing cluster. Accelerated computing – using programmable logic and…