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Towards a More Human Machine
The human body and the set of biological processes we collectively refer to as “life” bear little resemblance to any real machine. We attempt to…
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Reservations Required
Man at the head of the line: Table for three please? Maitre D’: Bien sur. Ees your party all ‘ere? Man: Yup. Maitre D’: Alors,…
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Trying to Keep Big Things in Little Packages
Embedded has always been something of a mixed blessing on FPGAs. Certainly FPGAs feature prominently in many embedded systems, but they rarely take the central…
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Toshiba Grows a Prefrontal Cortex
To no one’s great surprise, there’s yet another new ARM chip available in the market. This time the perpetrator is Toshiba, and its lyrically named…
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Catapult C Synthesis Designing a JPEG Compression Engine
High Level Synthesis technology has made it to the mainstream, but design teams often don’t know how to take advantage of these powerful tools to…
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Spying on the Innards
Officer McReady scratched his head in confusion. “OK, tell me again why you think Bostwick stole the papers?” “Because, well, first of all I thought…
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Happy Birthday to Us
Five fabulous years after removing the “press” from “trade-press,” FPGA Journal has pushed out over 5 million e-mails, over 5 hundred original articles, over 5…
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European Roundup
“So where are you off to this week?” a neighbour asked. “Paris and Munich,” I replied. “Oh, very nice,” he said. Well, perhaps. Actually, apart…
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Exotic Non-Volatiles
[Editor’s warning: this article contains multiple instances of polysyllabic scientific jargon. Reader discretion is advised.] Two non-volatile memory technologies have been making some low-level play…
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Tool Integration for ESL Design
Electronic System Level (ESL) design claims to offer not just a quicker path from concept to hardware, but a cost-effective one when targeting platform FPGAs.…