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Playing Pin Twister
Once upon a time, PLD pinouts were an easy thing. Oh, yeah, sorry… for you neophytes, that’s “Programmable Logic Device,” a term once ubiquitous, and…
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It’s the Parallelism, Stupid!
A couple years ago I was participating in a standards meeting of multicore insiders, and a discussion ensued as to how to use such phrases…
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The Spirit of Standardization
Edgar was seldom in the office – even before the current trends in telecommuting and working from home exploded. He’d waltz through the cube aisles…
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Merging with Agility
We’ve talked many times about the potential of FPGAs in providing incredible amounts of the Good kind of power (computing) while consuming comparatively tiny amounts…
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Getting Back to a Simpler Life
Thanks to a late arrival, I walked briskly through the jetway and out into the terminal. Glancing out through the window, I confirmed, to my…
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Accommodating Change
Someday someone will invent a useful engineering feature that can be plugged into telephone and email systems. Once an engineering project gets within a certain…
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Synplicity Gets Spirit
While the word “ecosystem” is happily bantered about by major FPGA vendors, history would indicate that FPGA companies are less than perfect participants in the…
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Multicore Momentum
A couple years ago a small ragtag conference took place in Santa Clara just before the relative behemoth Embedded Systems Conference. “Ragtag” might be a…
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Making Quality Everyone’s Business
Nestled amongst the big noisy conventions like CES, ISSCC, and DAC can be found some more modest, highly focused conferences. These shows may cast a…
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One to Many
About a decade ago, FPGA design followed in the footsteps of ASIC and went language-based. For a very long time, the only question we asked…