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  • Connecting the Camps

    The MathWorks is bucking that trend, however, because they’ve approached the problem from a different direction. First, they won the hearts and minds of the…

  • Connecting the Camps

    Connecting the Camps

    It happens from time to time. Some well-meaning high-tech company notices that they’ve got some pretty cool design tool technology and says to themselves, “Hey,…

  • Lattice Breaks the Rules

    Lattice Breaks the Rules

    FPGAs fall into two distinct camps – high-performance and low-cost. For several years, the rules and conventions of these strata have been established and followed…

  • Lattice Breaks the Rules

  • Accelerating RTL Analysis & Creation with Spreadsheets

    Accelerating RTL Analysis & Creation with Spreadsheets

    History of the Spreadsheet In 1979, a young Harvard Business School graduate student envisioned a new methodology to effectively organize and process large amounts of…

  • IP to Go

    IP to Go

    The race is on. Both competitors push pedals deliberately as the brakeless bikes start moving on the highly banked oval of the velodrome. Suddenly, before…

  • Spartan-3 Goes Golfing

  • Spartan-3 Goes Golfing

    Spartan-3 Goes Golfing

    His son graduates from Junior High next week – blank it out… His wife’s car needs the oil changed – blank it out… His mother…

  • Students Throw Down the Gauntlet

    A few weeks ago, in our “Environmental Embeddedness“ article, we discussed the Microsoft Windows Embedded Student ChallengE, where student design teams were asked to design…