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Flying Embedded Technology
My hobbies and my work are starting to overlap. I’ve been flying small planes all my life, and I’ve owned one for the past 17…
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Merging Lanes
For years, we had just “FPGAs.” We didn’t have today’s high-end, low-cost, value-based, platform-enabled, I/O optimized, low-power, DSP-enhanced, SerDes-enriched flavors. The very nature of FPGAs…
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Cranking up the MIPS
Sometimes you just need to go fast. In the arena of processor IP for system-on-chip embedded designs, there is always an artful dance done by…
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Beyond the Go Button
Most of us just press the button. It’s easy to just push the button for synthesis and place-and-route and forget that there is an awful…
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William Shockley
391 San Antonio Road in Mountain View is about to be redeveloped. Why should this interest you? Because that is where, one might argue, Silicon…
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Serial Commodotization
Anybody familiar with Altera FPGAs knows the GX designation. It’s the suffix that goes on when the family gets upgraded with high-speed serial transceivers. First…
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The Value of a Complete FPGA Design Flow
If the chain of tools comprising your design flow works flawlessly in getting your hardware ideas to silicon quickly, then the value of that flow…
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It Isn’t Easy Being Green
We all know the basics of Moore’s law, right? Every new process node brings a bounty of the three “Ps” – Price, Performance and Power. …
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It Isn’t Easy Being Green
We all know the basics of Moore’s law, right? Every new process node brings a bounty of the three “Ps” – Price, Performance and Power. …
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Fishing for Signal Integrity
Pieter has been a fisherman all his life. When he was a boy, he would spend every spare moment at the pier with his grampa’s…