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Creating highly reliable FPGA designs

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Adding an LCD to your microcontroller application made easy, inexpensive, & fun!

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Raspberry Pi online Maker Training Camp now open

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Xilinx to test FinFET FPGAs in 2013

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Improving power consumption in NFC and HF RFID card detection systems

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Prepare yourself for Geek Pride Day (May 25)

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World's first field-programmable radio frequency (FPRF) chip

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Imperas launches multicore software development tools

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All eyes on Zynq SoC for smarter vision

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Artificial heart ready for human trial

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Technical Papers

Using Plots for HDL Debugging as a Powerful Alternative to Traditional Waveforms

Low-Cost Implementation of High-Performance PCIe Gen2 Hard IP

Xilinx Stacked Silicon

Delivering the Right Power and Performance for 28 nm High-End FPGAs

Multi-Gigabit Serial Link Simulation with Xilinx 7 Series FPGA GTX Transceiver IBIS-AMI Models

Scaling High-Performance Applications for Low Power and Cost

Introducing Innovations at 28 nm to Move Beyond Moore's Law

Xilinx 7 Series FPGAs: The Logical Advantage

Courses and Webinars

Accelerate Industrial Applications Using Xilinx® Spartan™-6 FPGAs and National Instruments® Tools

Divide and Conquer: Faster FPGA Delivery using Hierarchical, Parallel Design Development

Meeting Aggressive Power Budgets with Xilinx 7 Series FPGAs

High Performance Power Converters on the First Design Pass

Designing Cost-effective, Greener LTE Basestations with Xilinx FPGAs

Easily Create PCIe-based Designs for FPGAs

Conquer FPGA Design Complexity with System-Level Integration

RTL Design-for-Power for Mobile SoCs: Best Practices

Teardowns

Video: Tear down that Prius!

CMOS power amplifiers penetrating 3G handsets

Intel's 22-nm process gives MOSFET switch a facelift

Wide Bluetooth, Wi-Fi adoption seen in handsets

Inside the Samsung Galaxy Tab: Taking on the iPad

Inside Xbox 360's Kinect controller

N8: Solid start for Nokia’s Symbian^3 strategy

CE parts met cockpit avionics in vintage F-15 video camera

Innovation at home: Inside a 3-D desktop scanner

FitBit blends wireless, MCUs and MEMS with online interface

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Reference Designs

Quantenna debuts 802.11n 4x4 MIMO wireless video bridge ref design

Quantenna Communications Inc. has debuted a complete reference design based on its QHS600 IEEE 802.11n wireless LAN (WLAN) 4x4 multiple input, multiple output (MIMO) chipset.
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Lattice adds over 90 reference designs for PLDs

Lattice Semiconductor Corp. has released more than 90 reference designs optimized for the MachXO and ispMACH 4000ZE PLDs.
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Products

Atmel announces new SAM D20 series of ARM Cortex-M0+ MCUs

Smartphone showdown at PhoneRocket.com

Altera announces Generation 10 FPGAs and SoCs

Silicon Labs to acquire Energy Micro

Microchip subsidiary acquires Novocell non-volatile-memory IP supplier

Free online classes: Application-Specific Programmable Logic

QuickLogic’s "CUB" system provides easy eval of ArcticLink III VX for customer designs

Production availability of SmartFusion2 SoC FPGAs from Microsemi

Avnet Electronics Marketing releases production-grade ZedBoard

Lattice’s latest design software allows designers to derive big benefits from tiny FPGAs

Commentary

Duck! Low-flying pizza!

Clive Maxfield

Can you imagine a future in which the skies (and restaurants) are jam-packed with miniature copters?

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I really am getting to the stage where I'd like to build a hexa-copter or octa-copter ... I want to ...

What were they thinking: A place to sleep

Brian Bailey

An interesting little patent today that shows how simple a patent can be...

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The future is here (but I'm not ready)

Clive Maxfield

In my previous blog we pondered the past. In today's column I'd like to contemplate, ruminate, and speculate about the future…

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Obligatory link relating to mini bars (WARNING: may contain bad ...

Wading through the sands of time

Clive Maxfield

In which we peruse and ponder some electronics articles published in a daily newspaper circa the 1920s.

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If I might suggest: you could try to _carefully_ photograph the pages and try to find somebody with ...

My first drawing with my iPad Camera Lucida

Clive Maxfield

How exciting – I just created my first drawing using my iPad Camera Lucida app!

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Sad Dog Diary

Clive Maxfield

This video consists of a series of images of dogs with a human narrator saying what they are thinking.

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What were they thinking: Slithering a snake

Brian Bailey

How many of you have a pet snake and want to take it for slither? Well, you just may need this invention...

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The text of the abstract and claim shows up the apparent inability of patent attorneys to construct ...

Stand back! I'm poised to use my Camera Lucida iPad app!

Clive Maxfield

Check out an amazing image created by someone who knows what she's doing… and then we discover what I've been up to…

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The interesting thing is that there's speculation that the great masters used a version of this ...

What were they thinking: Overly complex design

Brian Bailey

I think Wile E. Coyote was the kind of person who created many of the patents I find to write about in my “what were they thinking” series. You know what I mean – those absurdly complicated gadgets...

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To tell you the truth ... I would have used a pressurized canister of ethyl ether as the 'blower'. ...

Video: Funny magic trick

Clive Maxfield

I just ran across a video on YouTube (where else) billed as "Easily the funniest magic trick I've ever seen!" So, of course, I had to take a look…

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Recent Comments

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Software exam gets low grade in first test
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Nokia, Samsung, Apple victims of smartphone 'tipping point'
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Microsoft office comes to iPhone
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Intel processor outperforms Nvidia, Qualcomm, Samsung

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Get some fresh air with the June caption contest

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Media tablet is your next TV

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Introducing Opal Kelly’s new entry-Level Xilinx Spartan-6 USB FPGA module – the XEM6001

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Book excerpt – The art of hardware architecture, part 1

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Reader Message Boards

Job offer as Senior FPGA Engineer

By jaranguren on 09.29.2010

Hello, everyone.

Through a personal contact I came across a job offer posting from Accelogic, a Ft. Lauderdale based high technolgy company, on

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News, Analysis, and Opinion

Altera tips plans for 20, 14nm FPGAs in 2014

Slideshow: DESIGN West gets virtual Mars rover tour

Microchip’s MASTERs Conference for embedded-control engineers

Altera acquires TPACK; expands OTN solution capabilities

8 Hacks to Watch at Design West's Black Hat Summit

Energy Micro to showcase cool customer apps at embedded world

Check out TI's MCU BoosterPack design challenge

Xilinx Zynq-7000 All Programmable SoC wins Microprocessor Report Analyst Choice Award

SEMI summit spotlights threats to electronics growth

Silicon Valley Nation: Five epic road trips

 

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The Programmable Logic Designline is edited by Clive (Max) Maxfield. Here in programmable logic space (where no one can hear you scream) we are interested in anything and everything to do with programmable logic, including FPGAs, CPLDs, CSSPs, PSoCs... along with their associated design and verification tools and flows... Please contact max@CliveMaxfield.com if you are interested in submitting a technical article or a guest blog.