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Bringing Reality to PCB Design
In a fundamental shift that redefined how products are created, the transition of engineering design from manual drafting-based methodologies to Computer-aided Design has transformed design…
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Embedded World
Embedded world was always big. Now it is enormous. Nearly 700 companies were exhibiting there this year (twice the number booked for ESC in San…
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Migrating Complex Networking ASIC Verification Environment to SystemC and SystemVerilog
Introduction As the computer hardware industry strives to obey Moore’s Law, the telecommunication industry is following the even more rapid phenomena as described by Metcalfe’s…
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When Being One-Dimensional Is A Good Thing
Driving in the country and in the city are completely different experiences. In the country, there’s so little traffic that you really don’t need much…
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Comparing Power Consumption of FPGAs with Customizable Microcontrollers
Introduction As transistor technology quickly shrinks toward the vanishing point, embedded devices are taking over the marketplace. One of the key challenges of designing an…
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Maximizing Your Millimeters2
FPGAs have always benefited from the rising waterline of Moore’s Law. When the first programmable devices hit the market, the price of programmability was very…
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Seeding Multicore Infrastructure
Seeding a saturated solution for optimal crystal growth can be a tricky business. The highest-quality, largest crystals grow when given lots of time for the…
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Do Converging Standards Meet at Infinity?
Accellera’s chair, Shrenik Mehta, of Sun, has no truck with the traditional standards process. His view is that it is important to get a standard…
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A Merger of Unequals
As the orks circled the tower in growing numbers, efforts to finish the weapon became increasingly frantic. The mechanical portion was almost complete: all of…
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Making FPGAs Cool Again – Part 2
A couple weeks ago we looked at the state of FPGA low-power design from the standpoint of hardware. We saw a range of features, from…