Analyst Loring Wirbel covers programmable logic from an application perspective, providing a sneak peek at the vertical applications that help drive FPGA complexity, performance, and density. The blog will feature videos allowing engineers to spotlight their latest designs, along with news of products and corporate trends at FPGA vendors and the developers of third-party tools for programmable logic. en-us http://www.edn.com/blog/890000689.html Copyright 2009 Reed Business Information. Subject to its Terms of Use Fri, 20 Nov 2009 19:38:35 PST http://www.edn.com/blog/890000689/post/1190050719.html FPGAs are more commonplace in Portland this week than I thought. The last FPGA Gurus post described Convey Computer’s presence at the SC... http://www.edn.com/blog/890000689/post/920050692.html Remember Convex Computer Corp.? The Richardson, Texas company helped put Vitesse Semiconductor Corp. and gallium-arsenide ASICs on the map in ... http://www.edn.com/blog/890000689/post/1720050572.html Remember last summer, when we pointed out the role Stratix FPGAs were playing in a new Xtreme Data platform intended for high-frequency trading?&nb... http://www.edn.com/blog/890000689/post/1140050514.html Why should a swallowing of MontaVista Software by Cavium bother anyone in the FPGA community? Well, does the end result of Intel-Wind River st... http://www.edn.com/blog/890000689/post/770050477.html Most of the attention in the release on Lattice Semiconductor’s Version 8.0 of ispLEVER was on the software’s expansion of DDR support ... http://www.edn.com/blog/890000689/post/350050435.html In the past, when we’ve talked about conferences for video processing and high-speed graphics, they’ve tended toward the likes of SIGGR... http://www.edn.com/blog/890000689/post/1510050351.html You knew, didn’t you, that when we began writing about the predominant role FPGAs were playing in crypto, they’d be showing up post has... http://www.edn.com/blog/890000689/post/1050050305.html FPGAs are commonplace in video processing platforms these days, but we’ve been expecting them to show up the display-control segments of high... http://www.edn.com/blog/890000689/post/1810050181.html Xilinx’s Virtex-5 and Spartan-3 have both been chosen in a reference design for a cryptographic module. Japan’s National Institute... http://www.edn.com/blog/890000689/post/1460050146.html And now for something completely different: According to the online genome-sequencing news site, Sequence, Stone Ridge Technology Inc. of Bel Air, ... http://www.edn.com/blog/890000689/post/1140050114.html Doomsayers may call the Advanced Telecommunications Computing Architecture dead in the water, but at least one vendor at this week’s ATCA Sum... http://www.edn.com/blog/890000689/post/750050075.html It may not be news to place an FPGA close to an IF/RF interface in a handheld or base station design, but Lattice Semiconductor Corp. has taken int... http://www.edn.com/blog/890000689/post/1510049951.html Our last blog item mentioned the ARM TechCon3 conference taking place this week, but there are two other significant conferences going on, Supercom... http://www.edn.com/blog/890000689/post/830049883.html At first glance, the new Xilinx announcement on extending ARM licensing to include Cortex, as well as embedded memories and AMBA communication peri... http://www.edn.com/blog/890000689/post/450049845.html I point readers to a new blog item at HPCwire, in which Michael Feldman suggests that Nvidia’s new Fermi graphics architecture could directly... http://www.edn.com/blog/890000689/post/1630049763.html Siverge Networks Inc. has given us a nice one-to-one comparison of how traditional ASICs and FPGAs can be combined for networking processing tasks.... http://www.edn.com/blog/890000689/post/820049682.html Somewhere between the broadening of GateRocket’s product line and the significant number of verification tools using FPGAs that showed up at ... http://www.edn.com/blog/890000689/post/340049634.html Wow, Mike Brogley of Actel took a lot of reader flack at Embedded.com for an intriguing article on sunspot influence on SRAM-based FPGAs. Now,... http://www.edn.com/blog/890000689/post/1710049571.html Why has the embedded RISC market in FPGAs been limited to ARM cores? That question occupied me for several hours after hearing about Altera&rs... http://www.edn.com/blog/890000689/post/1440049544.html Maybe I missed an earlier post, but RTC magazine posted an article dated August that was new to me. A developer from AdvancedIO Systems Inc. i... http://www.edn.com/blog/890000689/post/420049442.html Do two instances constitute a trend? Less than a month after startup NuPGA promoted an FPGA based on a graphene memory element, EE Times tells... http://www.edn.com/blog/890000689/post/1640049364.html Clive Maxfield has identified an application for FPGAs that is truly one of a kind – Xilinx Spartan-3 devices in an Opal Kelly module, used i... http://www.edn.com/blog/890000689/post/1260049326.html Electronics Weekly in the UK just published an interview with Actel Corp. CEO John East, in which the company founder looks at growth opportunities... http://www.edn.com/blog/890000689/post/590049259.html If you’re like me, Intel Corp.’s vastly expanding list of microprocessor code names long ago got too complex to assign any rational val... http://www.edn.com/blog/890000689/post/1860049186.html I’ve been attending Intel Developer Forum in San Francisco and was looking in vain for good embedded FPGA applications. Little did I kno...