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Software Supervision
The latest version of your system is past primary development and ready for regression testing. You’ve got just a few systems available, and they’re in…
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ISE Storm
For system designers, Moore’s Law is a gravy train. Every couple of years, you get more gates, more speed, less power consumption, and lower cost. …
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Actel Activates Platforms
FPGA-based system-on-chip platforms are the etch-a-sketches of embedded design. You can quickly sketch out your embedded computing system, use it, and easily erase and re-construct…
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Soft Processing and Customizable IP Enable Flexible, High Performance Embedded Design
Which would you prefer for your next embedded project: flexible system elements so that you can easily customize your specific design, or extra performance headroom…
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Prototype to Production
From about the time of the announcement of their foundry partnership with Fujitsu, Lattice Semiconductor has been doing things a little differently. Step by step,…
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DRM To Go
Convergence is a cool concept. As embedded systems designers, once we’ve got a versatile computing platform constructed inside a mobile device, it’s exciting to think…
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FPGA’s Final Frontier
It is the final and biggest frontier for field programmable gate arrays. FPGA companies jumping into the gargantuan consumer electronics market – estimated at over…
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Consumer Electronics Show 2007
The Consumer Electronics show is so large that it’s small. Amidst the acres of exhibits and over 140,000 attendees, the topics and interests are so…
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Total Recall
They say that history repeats itself. Unfortunately, however, we find that this is often not true in debug mode. That elusive set of conditions that…
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Conspicuous Consumerism
The Consumer Electronics Show (CES) debuted in 1967 – shortly, it turns out, after Gordon Moore made the prognostication that has come to be known…