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When Software Flies
Software development is still, by far, the squishiest segment of the engineering discipline. This is not because software engineers lack discipline. Certainly some of the…
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Sampling Some FPGA IP
FPGAs are a series of pipes. They’re not something you just dump something on. They’re not a big truck. If you don’t understand that, those…
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USB Goes Vertical
USB is moving up in the world. Specifically, it’s going vertical. There are plenty of board-level standards out there and even more companies that support…
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Next-Generation 65nm FPGAs
System Design Challenge: Bigger, Faster, Better We are on the cusp of a major technology revolution today. All the buzzwords of yesteryear; digital convergence, triple…
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ABCs of ESC
Embedded Systems Conference 2007 in San Jose has ended, but we have devised a devious database of alphabetically arranged alliterative announcements to alleviate any anxiety…
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Smaller is Bigger
The San Jose version of the Embedded Systems Conference (ESC) in this year began with Al Gore throwing down the gauntlet. Socially and environmentally conscious…
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Bigger, Faster, More Connected
Embedded Systems have tracked the progress in desktop and enterprise computing, only faster. Development practices and standards have been much slower to mature, however, and…
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ArcticLink
You’re designing a new handheld device. You’ve got your processor picked, your software platform selected, your debugger dialed-in, and your battery bolted into place. Marketing…
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Cyclone III
Power, Price, and Performance – in the old days, every new click of Moore’s law gave us all three, automatically. Shrink the gates and you…
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ARM Optimizes for FPGA
“The translation of a conception, which was at the beginning, which is intended for ASIC in a FPGA, can poor and ineffective results give.” So…