Category: FPGA

FPGA

  • The Worst Two Answers

    You’re an upstanding product marketing guy, and you want to validate your company’s product ideas with customers and potential customers. So you go get in…

  • Altera Partners with Intel for 14nm Tri-Gate FPGAs

    Altera just announced that they’re partnering with Intel to produce FPGAs based on Intel’s 14nm Tri-Gate process.  This has the potential to give Altera a big…

  • MORE Lawyers, Please!

    In response to Dick Selwood’s recent article “Lawyers, Bankers, and Engineers”, I want to take a different (and perhaps controversial) stand:  We need MORE lawyers.…

  • Sensor Conditioning Options

    One of the big challenges of MEMS sensor development is the fact that the raw sensor signals need to be conditioned before being read and…

  • FPGA Prototype Debug Access

    When tracing events on any kind of system, it’s always faster to go local: the farther away the data has to go, the slower it…

  • Minding the Home Front

    I got into an interesting discussion the other day with career consultant Yu Xi Mi. In fact, it unexpectedly turned into a demo. Here’s what…

  • Time to Get Loud

    It’s a classic case of upping the ante, and it’s not clear where it’s going to stop. Much consumer technology these days has been focused…

  • Graychip Alternatives

    Chips that have reached, or are approaching, their end of life have been a perennial problem for systems makers for years. And the solutions have…

  • A Conference Presentation Figure of Merit

    In this business, I end up going to a lot of conferences on a lot of different topics. Now, I was trained as an engineer…

  • A Faster Fourier Transform

    We all had to learn about Fourier transforms in college. That scared some of us away to the safe, contained world of digital logic. But…