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What’s Your Persona?
Unbelievable! FPGA Journal is running a feature article on a Xilinx organization change? What’s next, an exposé on Altera’s new carpets at corporate headquarters? Maybe…
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Jason Cong
Professor Jason Cong’s office on the campus of UCLA is full, but not cluttered; important, but not pretentious; functional, but not over-designed. A wall of…
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FPGA-PCB Co-Design – More Than Just Data Transfer
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Methodology Melting Pot
The first explorers came with Karnaugh maps and truth tables. Complex combinational functions could be concentrated in programmable logic devices more efficiently than with random…
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Advancing FPGA Design Efficiency: A Proven Standard Solution
For decades the SoC design community has consistently lost ground in the battle to match advances in design technology productivity with the growth of available…
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Digital Do-Overs
His eyes meet the goalie’s steely gaze. He refuses to be stared down. In his mind, he calmly visualizes the moves to come, picturing success…
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FPGA I/O Features Help Lower Overall PCB Costs
Introduction High-end FPGAs with embedded processors, DSP and memory blocks are now replacing entire ASICs. New device families have accelerated programming times by dedicating several…
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FPGA I/O
Over the past decade, FPGAs have gained a foothold as one of the most used building blocks in digital systems. The flexibility of an FPGA…
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FPGAs in Space
When was the last time you disassembled the package of each FPGA in your design to make sure the bonding is secure? Would your design…
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The Challenges of Modern FPGA Design Verification
Fifteen years ago verification of FPGA designs was easy: you only needed a decent gate-level simulator to verify a circuit containing several thousands of logic…