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• ADC for programmable logic uses one capacitor
  
  Author: Jef Thoné and Robert Puers, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Leuven, Belgium' Edited by Martin Rowe and Fran Granville | Date: Nov 12, 2009
  Many electronic devices require user input for setting the application properties. Typical input devices include pushbuttons, potentiometers, and touchscreens.
• Avnet releases Xilinx Spartan-6 FPGA evaluation and development kits
  
  Author: By Rick Nelson, Editor-in-Chief | Date: Nov 12, 2009
  The Avnet Electronics Marketing operating group of Avnet Inc has announced the Xilinx Spartan-6 LX16 FPGA evaluation kit and Spartan-6 LX150T FPGA development kit. Both kits support the new FMC (FPGA-mezzanine-card)-expansion standard, which enables the addition of add-on modules and customization
• Putting an FPGA in the RRH chain
  
  Author: Loring Wirbel | Date: Oct 26, 2009
  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
• Debugging FPGA designs may be harder than you expect
  
  Author: By Chris Schalick, GateRocket | Date: Oct 22, 2009
  Bugs can originate at every stage in the FPGA design flow; debugging success depends on using the right tools and methods.
• Specify an external reference clock to improve SERDES performance
  
  Author: By Shawn Logan, LSI Corp | Date: Oct 21, 2009
  The technical merits and economic benefits of high-speed serial data transmission on a circuit board or between neighboring circuit boards have led to the development of many high-speed serial transmission standards.
• FPGA-evaluation boards come with design software
  
  Author: By Paul Rako, Technical Editor | Date: Oct 21, 2009
  Altium’s new NanoBoard 3000 embedded-system-development platform includes a board with an FPGA chip, an IR (infrared) remote control, and a 12-month license for Altium Designer schematic and FPGA software.
• Xilinx and ARM announce development collaboration
  
  Date: Oct 19, 2009
  Xilinx Inc and ARM have announced they are collaborating to enable ARM processor and interconnect technology on Xilinx FPGAs.
• Fermi-FPGA fights?
  
  Author: Loring Wirbel | Date: Oct 16, 2009
  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
• Designing an accessible board
  
  Author: By Ron Wilson, Executive Editor | Date: Oct 8, 2009
  Design in access to verification and debugging during—not after—the development of a board-level product.
• Cadence links FPGA-pin allocation to PCB-layout tools
  
  Author: By Graham Prophet, Europe Editor | Date: Oct 8, 2009
  Designers who use today’s large FPGAs on their PCBs (printed-circuit boards) face an increasing problem: handling the pinout and board tracking around the packages of these programmable devices.
• Minimizing Video Processing Design Time with FPGA Development Kits and Reference Designs
  
  Author: DEV-monkey Blog | Date: Oct 7, 2009
  Introduction Video standards and methods of encoding/decoding have made tremendous progress over the last decade with the availability of large system-on-a-chip (SOC) solutions using ASSPs, ASICs, or FPGAs.
• Open ARM-wrestling in FPGAs
  
  Author: Loring Wirbel | Date: Oct 7, 2009
  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
• MicroTCA and the role of the FPGA
  
  Author: Loring Wirbel | Date: Oct 6, 2009
  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
• Altera Licenses MIPS32 Processor Architecture
  
  Author: Steve Leibson | Date: Oct 6, 2009
  Leibson's Law: It takes 10 years for any disruptive technology to become pervasive in the design community. This blog is about the disruptive technologies that either have or will win over electronic engineers, some that won't, and why. Please feel free to link to these blog entries! Written by
• MIPS inks Altera licensing deal
  
  Author: By Suzanne Deffree, Managing Editor, News | Date: Oct 6, 2009
  Art Swift, VP of marketing at MIPS, noted that the license has the potential to broaden MIPS' user base.
• Avnet releases Xilinx Spartan-6 FPGA evaluation and development kits
  
  Author: Rick Nelson, Editor-in-Chief | Date: Sep 29, 2009
  Avnet has announced the release of the Xilinx Spartan-6 LX16 FPGA evaluation kit and Spartan-6 LX150T FPGA development kit.
• Xilinx ups sales guidance, expects Virtex-5 sales to increase significantly
  
  Author: By Suzanne Deffree, Managing Editor, News | Date: Sep 23, 2009
  The programmable logic vendor expects September quarter sales to be up approximately 10% sequentially, with Virtex-5 sales expected to increase significantly, surpassing 20% of total sales.
• FPGA architectural power-saving techniques at 40 nm
  
  Author: By Seyi Verma, Altera Corp | Date: Sep 23, 2009
  As geometries shrink, FPGAs must begin to employ design-specific power-management techniques in order to save power while meeting timing.
• Software signoff again
  
  Author: Paul McLellan | Date: Sep 23, 2009
  As I’ve said before, I believe that it is going to be taking software, probably written in C and C++ , and synthesizing parts of it into FPGAs and compiling the rest into binary to run on processors in the FPGA. This is what I’ve been calling software signoff for a long time.
• Onboard FPGAs enable high-performance ADC modules to analyze data at unprecedented speeds
  
  Author: By Dan Strassberg, Contributing Technical Editor | Date: Sep 22, 2009
  Agilent’s Acqiris product group recently announced three high-speed, high-accuracy, wide-dynamic-range, modular digitizers.