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  • Beverly Hills 802.16

    Beverly Hills 802.16

    You know what they say about technophiles: Give us a wireless inch and we’ll take a wireless mile. Actually, make that a wireless metropolitan area…

  • Erasing the Asterisk

    Erasing the Asterisk

    For years, we’ve talked about how FPGAs have the potential to accelerate digital signal processing (DSP) algorithms, producing higher performance with lower cost and lower…

  • Design Challenges Flow Downstream

    Design Challenges Flow Downstream

    Innovations within one domain of electronic product design typically have an unforeseen impact on other areas. For instance, innovation within FPGA devices that has enabled…

  • Field Programmable Journalism

    Field Programmable Journalism

    Content and concept are an interesting combination. People read FPGA and Structured ASIC Journal each week to learn from its content – articles, announcements, analysis,…

  • The Art of Embedded Design

    Engineering, we would argue, falls closer to the right-brain domain. While we technically-trained engineers may have always associated ourselves more closely with the study of…

  • Tale of the Tools

    Tale of the Tools

    Geologic time is difficult for humans to visualize. Great continents slamming into each other with epic force, reshaping the earth’s surface, don’t seem so impressive…

  • Remote Possibilities

    The truth is, our fifth-grader has become the equivalent of a live-in Support Desk. True, my husband and I are the designers of the entertainment…

  • Altera Looks Forward

    Altera Looks Forward

    In the rough-and-tumble, day-to-day, my-chip’s-bigger-than-your-chip schoolyard scrap that characterizes the top tier of the FPGA industry, a glimpse of vision, long-term insight and strategy are…

  • Finding Fusion

  • Bundling Performance

    Bundling Performance

    Every year, FPGA and Structured ASIC Journal has conducted a survey of design teams that have recently completed projects using FPGAs. We collect and analyze…