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Working Embedded Networking
Many companies who develop and sell specialized electronics have realized the benefits of adding network connectivity to their products. It can, however, be a daunting…
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Moving Data with VME
There was a time when they could fill a huge stadium. They were the headliners. They were the go-to guys. And they had a good…
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Pumping up Premier
With excellent tools available almost for free from FPGA companies, you might wonder why top notch design teams still pay for high-end FPGA tools from…
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IP – European Style
IP07 was the tenth meeting in Grenoble of IP providers and users under the umbrella of Design and Reuse (www.designandreuse.com), the IP portal. Europe editor…
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A Bid to Simplify Flash Subsystem Design
Flash memory, once exotic and expensive, has followed in DRAM’s steps to become a familiar everyday technology. Even more than DRAM perhaps: when was the…
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Three “I”s of FPGA Design: Iterations, Incremental and Intelligent Design Tools
The flexibility offered by field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) has made design iterations an integral part of the FPGA design process. Traditionally, engineers quickly wrote hardware…
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Incremental Design Moves Towards Mainstream
I have this recurring nightmare. I’m supposed to write a chapter for a book. I’ve pretty much got it done, doing some final editing on…
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Platformification
Webster’s Dictionary defines “Platformification” as – OK, you got us. It’s not in Webster’s. Even Microsoft Word gives us the squiggly red line telling us…
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45nm From 30,000 ft
Building a house used to be so easy. You found some flat land. You chopped down some trees. You sawed them up and put them…
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Actel Powers Down – Again
For a long time, the messages coming out of Actel were diverse – their two flavors of non-volatile programmable logic devices, some flash-based and others…