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  • A Bunch of Babies

    Sure, we’ve had a few years of comfort where C-based programming could solve the majority of embedded design problems, and we’ve even developed a respectable…

  • Are You Designing with Too Many Significant Figures?

    Are You Designing with Too Many Significant Figures?

    Achieving timing closure in today’s increasingly large and complex digital integrated circuit designs – irrespective of whether they are realized using FPGA, Structured ASIC, or…

  • Ask for Whom the Bell Tolls

    Ask for Whom the Bell Tolls

    I was at DATE 2006, a tradeshow in Germany. My cell phone started buzzing with calls, voicemails and e-mail. People were stopping me on the…

  • Biting Bugs Back

    In 1949, there was only one processor, and it was in a computer laboratory. Today, processors are ubiquitous; they are found in cars, phones, planes,…

  • What Do You Tell Them?

    I rolled into my own defeat with the resignation of a mortally wounded rabbit. “Gate arrays,” I replied, already knowing the next step of the…

  • Field Programmable Gate Arrays for Flexible and Fast Data Processing

    Field Programmable Gate Arrays for Flexible and Fast Data Processing

    Abstract Use of a generic FPGA board together with a powerful programming environment is investigated. It is demonstrated that high-performance real-time analysis is achieved at…

  • What Do You Tell Them?

    What Do You Tell Them?

    My twenty-three-year-old eyes couldn’t muster the maturity to disguise my frustration. He sensed their weakness. It was what he was watching for. Even as I…

  • Fusion Adds ARM

  • Image Processing Applications On New Generation FPGAs

    Image Processing Applications On New Generation FPGAs

    The new generation of FPGAs with DSP resource and embedded processors are attracting the interest of the image processing market. With enhanced capabilities most of…

  • Fusion Adds ARM

    Fusion Adds ARM

    It slices, it dices, and it has flash-memory. It gets your whites whiter, removes those collar rings, and flaunts flexible FPGA fabric. It has more…