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SystemVerilog is Coming to FPGA Design
Introduction Since its introduction in 2005, SystemVerilog has been touted as the way to marry design and verification into a single language, enabling design with…
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Zero Power for Zero Dollars
OK, we have to come clean right away. In introducing their new 99 cent FPGAs (yep, not a typo), Actel never claimed that they were…
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Avoiding the Failure to Communicate
Bill left via the front yard, striding purposefully down the street, while the other two scurried out the back door to the alley. John went…
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Effectively Using Internal Logic Analyzers for Debugging FPGAs
Factors Driving Change in FPGA Debugging Techniques The ability to reprogram an FPGA has been a key benefit during the functional debug of a hardware…
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45nm Chicken
The swamp screams loudly around the abandoned road as the jousters position themselves for their impending bout. Somewhere, in the back of their alcohol-soaked brains,…
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Utilizing Power Management Techniques in Embedded Multicore Devices
There are many accepted reasons that support a move to multicore design in portable devices: scalability, specialty cores, increased performance, and reduced power consumption are…
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ARM Mobilizes Graphics
First, JSR184 was out there all by itself, carrying the Mali mantra to the masses – bringing smart feature phones fancy graphics capabilities formerly found…
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DesignCon Steps it Up
DesignCon is one of the few industry events that manage to be simultaneously broad and focused. The conference overview proudly proclaims, “DesignCon attracts engineering professionals…
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Moving Data with VME
So VME has pretty much had to toil in what might feel like obscurity as compared with the attention that the PCI derivatives and ATCA…
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State of the Union – Addressed
Since I was moderating the panel, and we know how these things tend to go, we had a pre-meeting before the conference to get the…