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  • MIPS for your Media Room

    With HDTV now making the transition from exotic to ordinary, consumers naturally expect the audio portion of their experience to keep pace with the vast…

  • Critical Commoditization

    Critical Commoditization

    The fortress of an established FPGA company has many walls. One side is defended by the incredible cost of creating a competitive programmable logic architecture…

  • Wind River Zooms In

    This time, Wind River is touting a new release of their “Commercial Grade Linux” product line. WR’s Linux offering is always based on an unmodified…

  • FPGAs at DAC

    FPGAs at DAC

    Despite some popular speculation, “DAC” does not stand for “Declining ASIC Commiseration.” The Design Automation Conference is a robust and lively gathering of companies, customers…

  • Electronic Elitism

    Electronic Elitism

    The 43rd annual Design Automation Conference (DAC) got underway yesterday in San Francisco, California. The technical sessions have begun, the exhibits are open, and the…

  • Electronic Elitism

    Beyond promoting the polygon-pushing power of parallel processing, Mentor’s presentation also highlighted an interesting reality of today’s Electronic Design Automation (EDA) industry – nanometer class…

  • DAC Previsited

    DAC Previsited

    Exactly 299 days before “Cramming More Components onto Integrated Circuits” was published in Electronics Magazine, the first workshop of the SHARE Design Automation Project was…

  • DAC Previsited

    With such generic paper titles and such an auspicious article intro, what has transpired since then that has inexorably linked those two seemingly obscure technical…

  • System-Level Sideshow

    System-Level Sideshow

    He pauses for exactly the right amount of time, then whips into his delivery with energy and zeal – “Have youuuuu been struggling to meet…