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  • On the Cutting-Edge of FPGA Design and Verification

    On the Cutting-Edge of FPGA Design and Verification

    As advanced FPGAs have grown to ASIC proportions in terms of size and complexity, their design and verification have become correspondingly more difficult. This has…

  • Virtex-5 is Alive

    Virtex-5 is Alive

    Innovation is a hot topic these days. We ourselves have billed innovation as “the fuel that powers technological progress” in our industry. You’d think, with…

  • Microsoft Rolls Out CE 6

    Well, it’s been ten years and five versions since then, and baby Windows has busted out of the car seat, learned to walk and talk,…

  • Altera Readies for 65nm

    Altera Readies for 65nm

    We humans like to worry. Instead of being content with just living our happy lives, walking around enjoying the sunshine, eating our food, talking to…

  • Eclipsing all Others

    Then trouble came. Over in the desktop and enterprise development worlds, it seemed, a revolution was afoot. The dominance of the desktop development environment of…

  • Innovation Big and Small – Chapter 2

    The larger company, however, faces a situation where they can fall victim to the spoils of their own success. Once upon a time, they too…

  • Innovation Big and Small

    Innovation Big and Small

    It’s four o’clock in the morning. Roger gets up from his laptop to walk to the dorm-size refrigerator in the corner of the makeshift office.…

  • Blaming the Button

    Blaming the Button

    We FPGA designers work hard to get our RTL ready to rumble. We round up our IP, mull over the microarchitecture, sweat over the simulation,…

  • Innovation Big and Small

    Caffeine, cold liquid, and carbonation re-open Roger’s sagging eyes. His monitor locks back into sharp focus again. His latest unit test run will be done…

  • Death of the Hardware Engineer

    Any engineering discipline done well should ultimately be self-eradicating. The key problems should be solved from the bottom up, and the creative genius of each…