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  • The Secret

    The Secret

    “…It works the same as assertions in System Verilog,” he said.  I quickly nodded my head — maybe too quickly.  “Oh, OK, I see,” I…

  • Team SDR

    Software defined radio is developing into a benchmark challenge for the creators of technology.  The idea is simple enough – take the information coming in…

  • Computational Bottlenecks and Hardware Decisions for FPGAs

    Computational Bottlenecks and Hardware Decisions for FPGAs

    The High Performance Computing (HPC) community recognized the inherent limits of serial processing long ago. In the drive to continually improve the performance of HPC…

  • Team SDR

    Team SDR

    Old wisdom says that too many cooks spoil the broth.  New wisdom says that accomplishing anything really big in high-tech requires a great deal of…

  • Optimizing Architectures for Performance and Area using Virtual System Prototypes

    With new virtual system prototyping technology, the ability to make correct design decisions has been greatly enhanced so that system engineers may be able to…

  • 6.0 is a Go

    Windows CE may have previously seemed a bit behind the times, as hardware capabilities have sometimes outstripped the aging embedded OS in terms of capacity…

  • Low-Cost ASIC Conversion Targets Consumer Success

    Low-Cost ASIC Conversion Targets Consumer Success

    Design for portability is a valuable technique for engineers targeting consumer markets, seeking a cost-effective transition from an FPGA platform used for rapid development and…

  • Stratix III

    Stratix III

    With the usual next-node battle cry of “power, performance, price, and productivity,” Altera sailed into sixty-five-nanometer territory today with the announcement of their much-anticipated Stratix…

  • Embedded Britain?

    So, what are embedded engineers up to in all of this? At the recent ESS (Embedded System Show), Britain’s leading exhibition and conference, I talked…

  • The Haunting of Fab 51

    The Haunting of Fab 51

    The wild wind whistles strange through the bright gloom of eternal daylight in the tightly-sealed semiconductor fab.  In the power-assured place where progress never pauses…