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The Need for Safe and Secure Software… It’s About Time!
Not too long ago, secure software was the sole domain of the military and a few select governmental and financial agencies. Safe software was the…
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What’s a CSSP
If you’re designing portable or battery-powered devices for medium- to high-volume production, you’ve already run into the problem. You need to control a hard disk,…
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Burning the Secret Sauce
“Our new RuleBuster DRC tool has successfully verified a one billion transistor 65nm design for… uh… a very large semiconductor company.” The presenter blushes a…
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Spreading the Span
ChipX has long spanned the gap between FPGA and ASIC. Their range of products includes everything from structured ASIC through standard cell, and they’re often…
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Embedded Everything
The Embedded Technology game is one of those rare sports where the grand finale comes right at the beginning of the year. Like NASCAR, where…
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Spreading the Span
ChipX has long spanned the gap between FPGA and ASIC. Their range of products includes everything from structured ASIC through standard cell, and they’re often…
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Endangered Elite
Custom IC design has always been the extreme sport of electronic engineering. The design teams that could successfully put together a complex ASIC system-on-chip (SoC)…
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New Approach to FPGA Physical Synthesis for Ease-of-Use and Wide Device Support
In the past, physical synthesis tools for FPGA design were targeted to the advanced user and provided support for only a limited subset of devices.…
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Auld Langxiety
Bonnnngggg… Two thousand and seven creeps quietly toward a dignified death, trailing tales of victory and woe in the vast vortex of its widening wake.…
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The Countess, the Moon and a Barbecue
You want an audio system to provide you with very high quality sound, and also perhaps to take sound from your TV/video system. You can…