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A Bevy of Boards
Choosing your FPGA development board used to be simple and straightforward. You selected a device for your project, called up your distributor, and a few…
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The Real Fear Factor
Dealing with mass quantities of unsavory bugs is commonplace in both reality TV and modern-day chip design. And, the “fear factor” for both is the…
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Cray Goes FPGA
When I was in college, I knew the future of supercomputing. The supercomputers of the 21st century would be massive, gleaming masterpieces of technology. They…
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Clock Watching
In the mythological “good old days” when many FPGA designs were nothing more than simple state machines, clocking was simple. Your average design had a…
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Free Tool Friday
What can you get for free? In this age of rapid technological evolution, it is not uncommon for valuable, cutting-edge technology to find its way…
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Deeply Embedded
Last year we pointed out that the embedded systems conference (ESC) was being quietly taken over by FPGAs. Booth after booth on the tradeshow floor…
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Plug and Play Design Methodologies for FPGA-based Signal Processing
Digital signal processing has traditionally been the domain of DSP processors and ASICs. Since the late 1990s, FPGAs have emerged as alternative options for DSP…
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Two Bucks
For two US dollars, you can buy a bottle of water from the vending machine in a New York hotel lobby, or you could buy…
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High-Density FPGA-to-ASIC Conversions using Structured ASIC: Fills the Gap
Introduction Managing the increasing complexity of today’s digital applications calls for new design strategies. Risk, cost and time-to-market (TTM) can make or break a product…
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Lattice Launches XP
There’s something of a Renaissance going on at Lattice semiconductor right now. Since forming their partnership with Fujitsu about a year ago, the company has…