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That Was Tricky: The logic analyzer versus a DVM

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Programmable logic, SoC simplify power steering, accessory control

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Book excerpt – The art of hardware architecture, part 4

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Comparing FMCs with PMCs/XMCs for harsh environments (Part 2)

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Comparing FMCs with PMCs/XMCs for harsh environments (Part 1)

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Design industrial systems on a chip that meet stringent global safety standards

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Book excerpt – The art of hardware architecture, part 3

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Book excerpt – The art of hardware architecture, part 2

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Hands on RF: Handle multiple waveforms in a software-defined radio platform

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How formal MDV can eliminate IP integration uncertainty

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Technical Papers

Xilinx Stacked Silicon

Reducing Steps to Achieve Safety Certification

Reducing Cost and Power in Consumer Applications Using PLDs

Lowering Power at 28 nm with Xilinx 7 Series FPGAs

Offline LED Lighting Simplified: High Power Factor, Isolated LED Driver Needs No Opto-Isolators and is TRIAC Dimmer Compatible

Implementing Next-Generation Passive Optical Network Designs with FPGAs

Putting FPGAs to Work in Software Radio Systems, 6th Edition

Implementing Lowest Power Digital Datapaths in Days, not Weeks

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

Accelerating Productivity with Xilinx 7 Series Targeted Design Platforms

Video over LTE—Testing the next step in the end user experience

Designing Cost-effective, Greener LTE Basestations with Xilinx FPGAs

Easily Create PCIe-based Designs for FPGAs

Conquer FPGA Design Complexity with System-Level Integration

Teardowns

Video: Tear down that Prius!

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

BenQ K60 e-reader: Trying to stand on the shoulders of giants

First look inside iPhone 4 reveals high reuse

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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

FPGA-based dual motor control kit from Microsemi and TRINAMIC

Digital Blocks expands its video signal and image processing IP core family

QuickLogic introduces Background Color Compensator (BCC) technology for Pico Projectors

Analog Devices’ FMC boards support Xilinx’s Targeted Design Platforms

Samplify Systems announces APAX application acceleration technology

Multi-output regulators take up less space on the board

Xilinx announces ISE Design Suite 13.4

New USB-to-SPI protocol converter from Microchip

Real Intent upgrades Clock Domain Crossing product

Crimp terminals achieve the greatest durability, current per circuit

Commentary

What were they thinking: patent trolling patent

Brian Bailey

It is amazing what is covered in some patents and this one is just totally mind boggling…

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How It Was: Fiddling and twiddling with the TV controls

Clive Maxfield

In the not-so-distant past you had to constantly fiddle and twiddle with your television's controls to keep a reasonable picture on the screen...

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On a less humourous note was the rumour of the TV screwman who would plug the "cheater cord" ...

The Winter 2012 issue of Xcell Journal magazine is available now

Clive Maxfield

The folks from Xilinx have just announced the immediate availability of the Winter 2012 edition of their quarterly Xcell Journal magazine

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Good Grief… Not again!

Clive Maxfield

I’m starting to feel distinctly silly, because yet another electronics hobby project has failed to perform as expected…

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I just tuned my old AM radio to the static between stations and... ...Elvis says (a) stop talking ...

Mega-cool aluminum furniture that looks like wood or antler

Clive Maxfield

I was happily tootling along wandering around my office building when…

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Absolutely spectacular! Spare no cost when your selling a $3500 chair :-)

How It Was: Seeing my first color television

Clive Maxfield

When I was a young lad, I don't think I was even aware that such a beast as a color television existed…

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South Africa didn't have TV at all till 1976! Zimbabwe had B&W TV quite early, but didn't get colour ...

Xilinx launches first 7 Series FPGA design platforms

Clive Maxfield

The first complete development kits for increasing system performance, lowering power, and reducing BoM with Xilinx 28nm FPGAs are being demonstrated at DesignCon 2012

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How It Was: Watching the test card on TV

Clive Maxfield

In the days of yore, the television stations would broadcast programs for only a few hours a day – the rest of the time the "test card" reigned supreme…

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Wonderfully nostalgic :-)

For those who don't think science is exciting...

Clive Maxfield

In 1927 the world’s longest-continuously-running scientific experiment was kicked off, which means this little rascal has now been running for 85 years...

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Now that I think about it, Kelvin may have invented "The Slunky" ;-)

Looking for a present for your significant other?

Clive Maxfield

I don’t know about you, but as the years go by it seems to be getting harder and harder to know what to buy as a present for my wife.

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Yep. So I gotta get rid of them somewhere...and where better than here?

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February 2012 caption contest: Unicycle
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Panasonic predicts loss of $10 billion for fiscal year
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Time to play hard ball on tech manufacturing

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What's a good "real engineer" question?

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Rebuilding America: Really? Have we given up?

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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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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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