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A new way to do firmware development on programmable devices

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Neon lamps and photoconductors illuminate logic

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PowerSoC solves switch-mode DCDC noise and space issues

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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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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

Microsemi boasts new package for radiation-tolerant "Space Flight" FPGAs

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

Commentary

What would you do for an iPad2?

Brian Bailey

TLMCentral is kicking into high gear with competitions to spur donation of Open Source models into the community. Are you up for the challenge…

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Opinion: The yin and yang of designing big chips

Patrick Groeneveld

Patrick Groeneveld is this year's chair for DAC. In this opinion piece he talks about value in synthesis and analysis tools...

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Things that go “meep” in the night

Clive Maxfield

I just had a very unsatisfactory night’s sleep, because something kept on going “meep” and I couldn’t track it down…

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I once worked on a project refitting a shop. The Project manager had a PC with a screen saver that ...

What's in your emergency repair kit, besides tools?

Bill Schweber

It starts with duct tape, of course, but there are other small items to bring

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Heh, depending on the length, the gauge, the current, and the nature of the item being powered, that ...

Ten things I want to do before I die…

Clive Maxfield

I don’t want to sound maudlin, but every now and then as one gets older, thoughts of mortality do tend to cross one’s mind…

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Quick – Vote now!

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It’s time to stand up and be counted – are we going to let some yahoo from “e-Book Reader” or “Netbook News” beat one of our very own at EE Times? No we are not!

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Free 2-day course: Designing with SmartFusion mixed-signal FPGAs

Clive Maxfield

SmartFusion mixed-signal FPGAs include a hard ARM Cortex-M3 microcontroller core, so this course will be of interest to a wide audience…

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Calling all people who care about power

Brian Bailey

Reaching out to people is one of the things that editors have to do, but I have to know who to reach out to. Should I include you?

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How It Was: Magnetic wire recorders

Clive Maxfield

If asked about the history of sound recording, you might think of the phonograph, the gramophone, and the magnetic tape recorder, but what about the wire recorder?

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OMG! My heart is pounding after watching these videos

Clive Maxfield

I can’t believe my heart is pounding so much when all I did was sit here and watch a video, goodness only knows what I’d be like if…

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What's a good "real engineer" question?

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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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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.

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