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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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Altera to buy Enpirion for on-chip power conversion

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Moving to SystemC TLM for design and verification of digital hardware

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Multicore debug goes heterogeneous at PMC-Sierra

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Channel compensation methods used in JESD204B converters

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From AVR to ARM with Alf-Egil Bogen and Energy Micro

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Electronics in medicine: Insulin pump design

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Slideshow: Inside McLaren's Formula 1 Racing Tech Center

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Grasp the critical issues for a functioning JESD204B interface

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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

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

Altera Quartus II software v13.0 enables world’s fastest FPGA designs

Altera opens the FPGA world to software programmers

Microsemi's next-gen digital ICs and SoC FPGAs to use Intel's foundry services

Hurray! Xcell Journal Issue 83 is here!

Atmel introduces ultra-low-power single-chip touch controller for screens up to 15.6”

Commentary

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…

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Perhaps the tool from that injection molding company can come up with very accurate values for ...

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.

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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…

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Max, does this look like the show? www.history.com/shows/the-universe

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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EDA in the Cloud: OneSpin says your design is secure

Brian Bailey

OneSpin has a new offering that makes your design secure even while utilizing Cloud services…

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Was I just talking to an artificial intelligence?

Clive Maxfield

This may sound a little crazy, but I seriously think I may have just had my first conversation with an artificial intelligence.

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What we know is that most programs are not able to handle exceptions very well, so the test would be ...

Slideshow: Astronaut sings Bowie in space

Anne-Francoise Pele

Canadian astronaut Chris Hadfield's revised version of David Bowie’s Space Oddity, the first music video made in space, has rocketed him across the web.

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I'm glad he modified the lyrics a bit to get rid of the part where he floats off into outer space, ...

Cat in a shark suit riding a Roomba and chasing a duck

Clive Maxfield

Just when you thought you'd seen it all…

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This must be some new meaning of the word "chasing" of which I was not previously aware.

A Camera Lucida for the 21st Century

Clive Maxfield

A few days ago I became aware of a rather interesting project on KickStarter.com...

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Can you show us some examples of your work with the iPad App?

Good Grief! Chocolate Chip Bacon Cookies

Clive Maxfield

These cookies will do me so much good that they practically count as health food!

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I'm so glad you said that -- I was worried it was just me that thought this -- I can't wait to taste ...

Recent Comments

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Should smartphones pay in defense of French culture?
It is in France!
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Taiwan reversing brain drain
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Yoshida in Japan: Ailing companies to break away from past
All technology advances run in cycles. A good company will embrace that change and prepare their ...
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Slideshow: How knockoff nation mastered ecosystem

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Yoshida in Japan: Sony no longer an electronics company

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Japan's chip vendors slide down Q1 global rankings

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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

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

Aldec shares verification white papers

 

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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.