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Need to accelerate the creation of technology-independent DSP hardware?
The massive increase in processing required for next generation compute-intensive applications, such as wireless communication and image processing, has created a gap between off-the-shelf DSP…
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Death of the Hardware Engineer
Exactly two hundred years ago this June, Augustus De Morgan was born. Arguably, before that time, there were no logic designers in the world. For…
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Parallelizing PCB
Multi-madness is upon us these days. Multi-core, multi-thread, and multi-processor mania has made a mess of the previously well-ordered software tools and operating systems market,…
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Undertow of Ubiquity
Over the past few years, FPGAs have risen from a whisper to a roar at the Embedded Systems Conference. This year, at the newly re-relocated…
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C to FPGA
FPGAs are making big inroads in the embedded systems space as system-on-chip platforms. The recipe is solid – whip together a processor with some peripherals…
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Go, Stop, Yield
Craig (not his real name) is the lead engineer on his company’s most important project. So far, Craig has been worth his weight in gold…