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How Many Nanometers Do I Need?
Many of us toss the process node into casual conversation, pretending we know what it actually means… “I hear that SilBlaster is already working on…
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Yet Another Twist on Making Software Faster
We seem to have this love/hate relationship with software. We like it because it’s so durn flexible and we can implement changes quickly. Well, unless…
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HFame Academy for Engineers?
The problem exists in all areas of electronics, from EDA through manufacturing to system developers, and in most geographical markets. It regularly crops up in…
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Who Are You People?
Over 60,000 people in over 100 countries read FPGA Journal. Apparently, you’re one of them. While we may be the perennial pundits of programmable logic,…
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New Approaches to Long-Term Memory
There’s been a quiet development brewing that you could file under “W” for “What’s old is new.” Non-volatile memory (NVM) is seeing renewed attention as…
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Why Hamsters Cannot Save the Planet
While low power was officially the theme of only a panel session at Globalpress Electronics Summit, it was also frequently the theme, sometimes explicit and…
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The Right Equipment
Alpe d’Huez loomed large ahead. His team had been supporting and protecting him until now, keeping him squarely in the running for the yellow jersey. …
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Fight! Fight! Please?
Everyone loves a good fight. Peace? Harmony? Teach the world to sing? Bah! That’s hippie talk! There’s no excitement (or money) in that! Drama, now…
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Death, Taxes and Intel
Three things are certain in the engineer’s life: death, taxes, and Intel dominance. One of those is not actually true. Although “Intel” is the name…
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Building an FPGA Design Repository
How often has it happened that you have just finished a complex module for an FPGA project only to later find out that a very…