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  • Adrift…

    A moment later, it was gone. The mark – their goal for their next leg of the race – had unceremoniously sunk into the sea,…

  • Adrift…

    Adrift…

    A moment later, it was gone. The mark – their goal for their next leg of the race – had unceremoniously sunk into the sea,…

  • Fall Fury

    One thing is clear, though. Our new [insert catchy techno-trademark here] will speed your time to market, reduce the number of costly debug iterations, improve…

  • Sensible SerDes at Sixty Five

    Sensible SerDes at Sixty Five

    At first, high speed serial I/O was a checkbox item in FPGAs – either you had it or you didn’t. FPGA vendors bolted transceivers onto…

  • Power Parallelism

    What so many have been seeking is an architecture that combines efficient parallelizing of the performance core of demanding algorithms with the ease of programming…

  • Power Parallelism

    Power Parallelism

    Computing architectures have reached a critical juncture. The monolithic microprocessor has collided with the thermal wall with a resounding, “Ouch! That’s too hot!” Traditional processor…

  • Making the MOST

    Making the MOST

    In the good old days, people knew what a LUT was. Why, when I was a design engineer, we taped out our design on glass…

  • Happy Birthday to Us

    Our first year saw explosive growth in the “ecosystem” of embedded system development, including rapid expansion of open-source offerings for embedded design, increased competition in…

  • It’s All About Us

    It’s All About Us

    Three years and over one-hundred-fifty editions ago, the first copy of FPGA Journal rolled off the virtual presses, coursing its way through the digital jungle…

  • Soft Core War

    Before FPGAs became viable system-on-chip platforms, there were two simple basic food groups in the embedded processor world: stand-alone processors for board- and module-level integration…