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FPGA Journal Turns Two
It’s time again to bring home that cake from the grocery store bakery, ditch the box, mess around with the frosting a bit so it…
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Rationalizing Reconfigurability
About twenty years ago, there were two well-known approaches to custom IC implementation. The first, which we called “Full Custom,” was the high-end methodology. Polygons…
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Allan Cantle
Allan Cantle knows what it takes to design high-performance digital systems. He’s been proving it since his early days at BAE Systems, where he was…
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It’s Not All About the FPGA Anymore
Introduction FPGA logic design no longer rules the project schedule like it once did. Twenty years ago, implementing the logic in 20 and 24-pin programmable…
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Mapping MAPLD
It’s difficult for a technical conference to get just the right balance. Too much tradeshow, not enough industry participation; too many irrelevant sessions, too many…
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Migrating FPGA Virtual Gates to MROM Reduces Reliability Risk
Interest in FPGA reliability is not restricted to SEU environments. The US critical infrastructure, for example, often demands 24/7 operations and thus hi-reliability is frequently…
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FPGA Reliability in Space-Flight and Automotive Applications
High-reliability design considerations are fast becoming an art that system engineers have to undertake very early on in the design process, often beginning with a…
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Space Silicon
Most of us know Moore’s law to have only one independent variable – time. Mr. Moore predicts that, as time goes by, the complexity of…
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Considerations for High-Bandwidth TCP/IP PowerPC Applications
The TCP/IP protocol suite is the de facto worldwide standard for communications over the Internet and almost all intranets. Interconnecting embedded devices is becoming standard…
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Crossing Over
When I was a kid, my Dad had a big’ol vacuum-tube audio amplifier. It was massive, heated the room, and took several minutes to “warm…