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Mega-cool Camera Lucida app for the iPad

Altera Stratix V GX FPGAs achieve PCIe Gen3 compliance

QuickLogic's camera I/F solution for TI's ARM MCUs & Android Jelly Bean 4.1.2 OS

Achieving inner peace

Aldec's Spec-TRACER for safety-critical FPGA & ASIC designs

Video: Dancing Lego

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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

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

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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

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Teardowns

CMOS power amplifiers penetrating 3G handsets

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

Wide Bluetooth, Wi-Fi adoption seen in handsets

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Inside Xbox 360's Kinect controller

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

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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

TI expands ecosystem for MSP430 Capacitive Touch solutions

Cypress releases latest version of PSoC Designer IDE

Altera Stratix V GX FPGAs achieve PCIe Gen3 compliance

QuickLogic's camera I/F solution for TI's ARM MCUs & Android Jelly Bean 4.1.2 OS

Aldec's Spec-TRACER for safety-critical FPGA & ASIC designs

Altera to acquire power technology innovator Enpirion

Intilop, Altera deliver unprecedented sub-microsecond full system latency

DCD's DP8051 – even faster and more configurable

Compare the best Solid State Drives with SSDBoss.com

Avnet introduces Xilinx Zynq-7000 All Programmable SoC Mini-Module Plus

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Commentary

Mega-cool Image Blender app for the iPad

Clive Maxfield

This is a simple and clean iPhone and iPad app with a single purpose – blending multiple images together.

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ARM TechCon 2013 – Call for Papers Now Open

Clive Maxfield

Now in its seventh year, ARM TechCon is ranked one of the top three critical events in the embedded sector.

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Your chance to win an Exploration & Discovery experience and go behind the scenes at NASA!

Clive Maxfield

Littelfuse's Speed2Design Exploration & Discovery program brings engineers behind-the-scenes at NASA's Ames Research and Johnson Space Centers.

post comment 1 comment last comment Max the Magnificent
This sounds like the chance of a lifetime -- I'd already have entered myself, but I'm not allowed to ...

Mega-cool Camera Lucida app for the iPad

Clive Maxfield

Initially I assumed that this app was for drawing on the iPad screen … I was so wrong!

post comment 2 comments last comment Max the Magnificent
Please, PLEASE share your painting with us -- maybe showing it in different states of completion and ...

Achieving inner peace

Clive Maxfield

What does it take to always be cheerful, to ignore aches and pains, to relax without alcohol, and to sleep without the aid of drugs?

post comment 4 comments last comment Max the Magnificent
Well, that's very interesting, but what does it have to do with achieving inner peace? :-)

Video: Dancing Lego

Clive Maxfield

This video involves a Raspberry Pi, five servos, and a bunch of Lego…

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What were they thinking: exhibiting at DAC

Brian Bailey

Every year there are new companies exhibiting at DAC and we all know that most of them will not be back. Here are two very likely candidates for that list…

post comment 8 comments last comment Duane Benson
There was an Embedded Systems Conference a few years back where on of the booths had a genuine T-Rex ...

How much of the chip does IP fill?

Brian Bailey

How much content does it take to maker a chip unique? Maybe less than you think.

post comment 1 comment last comment Frank Eory
Chip surface area is a poor metric for measuring IP content. The trend of IP blocks -- both licensed ...

The awesome majesty of the universe

Clive Maxfield

A recent science program on the television completely blew me away…

post comment 17 comments last comment Max the Magnificent
If anyone emails me at max@CliveMaxfield.com I'll send a PDF version of this blog including the ...

Altera & Enpirion – great things to come

Clive Maxfield

I just had a briefing with the folks from Altera and Enpirion, and things are starting to make a lot more sense…

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Job offer as Senior FPGA Engineer

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

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