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Industrial Revolution
The industrial automation and control field is an ever-changing mish-mash of protocols, standards, and conventions. Recently, there has been a wave of replacement sweeping the…
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Dialing-in DSP on FPGA
We’ve discussed the amazing potential FPGAs bring to DSP acceleration for years now. We’re not alone, either. FPGA vendors have pumped out trumped up performance…
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From Servers to Smartphones
The rack of heavy-iron blade servers whirrs away, dishing up data and mashing myriad algorithms for hundreds of users throughout the corporate campus. Most of…
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Myth of the Technical Track
Those of us who go through engineering training arrive and depart with a wide range of expectations and purposes. Some of us were just good…
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Happy Birthday
Embedded Technology Journal turns a terrific two years old today. What does this mean? For us, two years of your loyal patronage means that we’re…
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Happy Birthday!
Four years, more than 200 weekly newsletters, hundreds of product announcements, briefings, interviews, conferences, and trade shows – for a four-year-old, FPGA Journal has really…
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Breaking New Ground
Usually, when we attend a major conference, we run a “pre-conference” piece ahead of time – just to whet your appetite. This time, however, we…
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Pumping Up Precision
Perhaps the most under-appreciated technologies in the FPGA design flow are logic synthesis and physical layout. Most of us download the vendors’ tools, grab some…
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Ritual Ring
The ring is to be worn on the pinkie, its sharp barbs meant possibly to irritate the wearer slightly – a constant reminder of its…
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Low Power Processing
Last week, in “ARM and Altera – Why You Should Care,” we looked at the announcement of an Altera Cyclone III development kit for the…