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Prime-time Processing
It probably started innocently enough. A few years ago, an application note from a Xilinx engineer described the implementation of a small processor that could…
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Co-Verification Methodology for Platform FPGAs
The emergence of affordable high-end FPGAs is making them the technology of choice for an increasing number of electronics products that previously were the exclusive…
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Making the Jump to 10G
There is a radical shift in the beliefs about high speed serial feasibility as it moves beyond 3 Gbps on up to 10 Gbps. In…
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Breakthrough Bandwidth
A little over a year ago, when we wrote our last feature on high-speed serial I/O, you might have felt safe. You could read the…
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The Impact of Timing Exceptions on FPGA Performance
FPGA designers are typically working with prototype designs without much synthesis history, so on the first pass of the design they will not have developed…
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Simulator Savvy
Most of us picked up HDL design the way we discover a new city. We land at the airport, and a taxicab drops us off…
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FPGA-based System-on-Module Approach Cuts Time to Market, Avoids Obsolescence
Configuring and implementing an FPGA-based embedded system is not an easy task. Connecting various blocks of discrete intellectual property (IP) in a system using an…
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Nick Martin
Nick Martin is not bound by high-tech tradition. If he were traditional, he’d have a PhD from Berkeley, UC Irvine, or MIT. If he were…
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Considering the Total Cost of FPGAs
Field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) have a well-established position in every systems engineer’s toolbox. Taking advantage of their flexibility, engineers have used FPGAs for many years…
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Structured ASIC Starting Line
If the value of structured ASIC as a gap-filler between programmable logic and cell-based ASIC is still in question, there are at least two companies…