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Think You Know Where Structured ASICs Belong?
Over the past couple of years, the notion of Structured ASIC and Platform ASIC architectures, let’s refer to both as Structured ASICs, have received a…
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SDR Prêt-à -Porter
Just three weeks ago, Xilinx announced the latest version of their PlanAhead software, asserting among other things that they had simplified the daunting task of…
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How to Avoid PCB Libraries Stifling FPGA Design
FPGA and PCB design teams have begun to leverage the flexibility of FPGA devices to create complex systems while optimizing their PCB design for performance…
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Upping the Low-Cost Ante
In the good old days, there was just one kind of FPGA – the “big” kind. Big is in quotes, of course, because even today’s…
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Lattice Joins the Fray
The elite party of 90nm high-performance FPGA suppliers has just been crashed. The two big burly guards at the entrance to the VIP room were…
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Reconfigurable Computing in Real-World Applications
Developers have long been intrigued by the potential of reconfigurable computing (RC) to accelerate some computationally-intensive high-performance computing (HPC) applications. But the barriers to achieving…