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Deterministic Name Generation for Incremental Synthesis
Introduction Incremental design is a useful capability when implemented properly. Unfortunately, due to the naming schemes employed by logic synthesis tools, confusion arises over what…
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The First FPGAs of Spring
The wild winds of winter have ravaged the technology plains with bitter cold, their icy breath wearing thin the layer of protective press releases lovingly…
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Mixing Fossil Fuel and Electrons
Zoom-Zoom. Vrooom, vroom. Beep-beep-beep, click, whir, bong. Pop quiz: which is the sound of a car? If you answered, “all of the above,” you’re right.…
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DSP to a Different Drummer
FPGAs, possibly the most powerful processors in existence today by many measures, were never intended to be processors at all. Conceived as general-purpose programmable logic…
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Managing the Middle Manager
Middle Manager makes his way through the maze of chest-high walls, passing members of his team as he plans his morning, pausing a couple of…
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Reprogrammable Logic Drives Automotive Vision Systems Design
Automotive electronics system development teams increasingly grapplewith the challenges of new industry standards and product features. An automotive vision system is an example of a…
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Short Stack with Syrup
Non-volatile FPGA is one of today’s oddest market segments. Bound by the ill-defined characteristic of “non-volatility,” the field of available devices is diverse from the…
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Is it February? Then it must be embedded world
When you come out of three days of hard-sell briefings from company spokespeople at an event like Nürnberg’s embedded world (lower case e and w…
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Doin’ Hard Time
If the concepts of “Linux” and “Real Time” are stored in different sections of your brain, you are not alone. Real-time Linux has always felt…
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Un-structured ASIC
In the continuum of custom logic device technologies reaching from highly-custom Standard Cell ASIC at the high end to FPGA at the low end, we…