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IIDC2--A new dawn for industrial digital video cameras

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Reducing energy cost of intra-chip communications

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How to use the CORDIC algorithm in your FPGA design

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It's a vision thing – creating an optical computer memory

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Use a twist (and other popular wires) to reduce EMI/RFI

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Book Excerpt: How to engineer EM circuits, Part 2

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Time is money! A quick fix for those pesky FPGA design errors

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Sophisticated thermal management solutions cool hi-rel systems - Part 2

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Hierarchical methods for power intent specification

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Case Study: Determining root cause of damaging high-voltage transients

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Technical Papers

Xilinx 7 Series FPGAs: The Logical Advantage

Reducing Total System Cost with Low-Power 28-nm FPGAs

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

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

Lighting Control made easy with NXP LPC1100XL Microcontroller series

Improve Linux Real-time Behavior with a new Light-weight Threading Model

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

QuickLogic enhances viewability of “Pop Video”

Microsemi attains QML Class V qualification for space FPGAs

Satin to introduce automated design monitoring at DAC 2012

RAPIDO in-line programmer delivers gang programming of up to 16 sites

MIPS introduces new Aptiv generation of processor cores

Lattice ships over 1 million MachXO2 "Do-It-All" PLDs

Production release of Lattice iCE40 mobileFPGA devices

New power management architecture from Lattice

eASIC's chips provide 3X efficiency increase for supercomputer

Soft errors can cause headaches at smaller geometries

Commentary

"Hi, I’m your data; can you hear me now?"

Bill Schweber

Extracting insight from mounds of data may benefit from using old techniques

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Book Review: Shakespeare – The World as Stage by Bill Bryson

Clive Maxfield

This is an interesting and informative book that had me rolling on the floor laughing…

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And a pith helmet.

Something smells

Carolyn Mathas

Is this cool, or what? As you know, sensors are increasingly taking over our five senses in an ever-growing number of applications.

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Industrial control systems—Thwarting attacks

Carolyn Mathas

The Department of Homeland Security put feelers out to other governments in the hope of bolstering the safety of industrial control systems (ICS) and created a venue to brainstorm solutions.

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New Companies at DAC: Esencia Technologies

Brian Bailey

Esencia has just announced the EScala design platform which is primarily aimed at audio and video applications that have compute intensive algorithms...

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Wow – I am “tickled pink” as they say!

Clive Maxfield

Being “tickled pink” refers to enjoyment great enough to make the recipient glow with pleasure – which certainly describes my current state of being…

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New companies at DAC for the first time in 2012

Brian Bailey

This is the first of a series of blogs preparing you for DAC this year. This one lists the new companies exhibiting for the first time...

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Hi, Brian! A quick clarification for Space Codesign ... #417 is our demo suite, our exhibit will be ...

Tales from the entrepreneurial trenches: Dermott Lynch - Part2

Brian Bailey

This is the first in a new series of articles that talk about the lessons learned by entrepreneurs in the course of their success and failure…

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Autonomous cars: Sooner than we think?

Rick DeMeis

In the short term, vehicles will be able to take over many driving functions—but full autonomy may be farther down the road.

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No they don't. There must be a driver, with a driver's license, behind the wheel of these ...

Industry view: iSuppli on Micron/Elpida deal

Kristin Lewotsky

Mike Howard of IHS iSuppli weighs in on rational markets, Micron's most likely integration strategy, and the one thing Elpida must not do.

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Just read Apple booked Elpida's mobile DRAM. Micron likely has to shelve its own DRAM.

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Pick the right wireless sensor/controller for your connected MCU-based design
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Students need to learn multiple programming languages
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Former Apple, Google, Facebook engineers launch IoT startup
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Weigh in on the greatest hits in electronics

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Autonomous vehicles - Be Afraid

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Why China?

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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

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News, Analysis, and Opinion

EVE accelerates S/W development for TI's OMAP 5

Tabula’s ABAX 3PLDs are in the news

Buy one virtual classroom seat and get one free!

Xilinx 7 Series FPGAs at Interop 2012

Xcell Journal Magazine Spring 2012 Edition is here

Microsoft joins Micron memory cube effort

Microsemi announces 10,000th radiation-tolerant RTAX-S/SL FPGA shipment

Emcore wins $6M contract to design solar panels for spacecraft

Eeeek! Microchip Technology acquires roving networks

Altera to showcase productivity and cost reduction solutions for multichannel systems at 2012 NAB

 

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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.