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  • How to Make An ASIC Prototype

    How to Make An ASIC Prototype

    At HARDI Electronics, we started working seriously with ASIC prototyping in FPGAs about five years ago, and we quickly realized what the challenges were. First,…

  • Top-Flight Prototypes

    Top-Flight Prototypes

    It’s a lifelong dream for many people to actually fly a plane on their own. The daring, carefree, wind-in-your hair pilot personality, however, is a…

  • Connecting the Dots

    What happened is that our cars have evolved to become, essentially, complex, networked, embedded systems – big ones. An average car when I was a…

  • The People’s RTOS

    Open-source operating systems (and specifically embedded Linux) have been making big gains in the device software space. Development teams are attracted by the lack of…

  • Synplifying Physical Synthesis

    Synplifying Physical Synthesis

    When FPGAs flirted with the million-ASIC-gate density for the first time, a bell went off in many designers’ heads. This was not the tinny tintinnabulation…

  • The Challenges of an Embedded Software Engineer

    First, there are many “knowns” in the enterprise software space. Developers usually develop on the same hardware (host machine) and software platform (i.e. operating system)…

  • Comparing Windows CE and Windows XP Embedded

  • Architecture and Implementation of the Cortex-A8 Microprocessor

  • Intelligent Integration

    As system designers, we encounter the integration question at a much lower level. Processors, peripherals, memory, interconnect, and storage are all basic components of almost…

  • Second Annual FPGA Journal Awards

    Second Annual FPGA Journal Awards

    Last year, with little fanfare, we presented our first annual FPGA Journal Reader’s choice awards. The response was fantastic, and everybody wanted to know how…