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• 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
• 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.
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• 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.
• 2008 EDN DSP Directory: Stratix III FPGAs
  
  Altera's new Stratix III family of low power, high-performance FPGAs introduce a new and innovative FPGA architecture that goes beyond optimized process and circuit techniques.
• 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.
• 2008 EDN DSP Directory: Cyclone III FPGAs
  
  Cyclone III enables low power implementation of signal processing functions in wireless, display, SDR and video applications that use its dedicated DSP functionality. The Quartus II software version 7.
• 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.
• 2007 EDN DSP Directory: Stratix III FPGAs
  
  2007 EDN DSP Directory By Robert Cravotta, Technical Editor A comprehensive listing of digital-signal-processing resources, including software-programmable processors, programmable fabrics, IP (intellectual-property) blocks, and digital-signal controllers.
• 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.
• LatticeMico32 - 2007 EDN Microprocessor/Microcontroller Directory - Details on hundreds of
  
  2007 EDN Microprocessor Directory: Different strokes By Robert Cravotta, Technical Editor Our 34th Annual Microprocessor and Microcontroller Directory presents you with a palette of processing options and development tools for your project.
• 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.
• blogCategory on EDN: Electronics Design, Strategy, News
  
  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.
• 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.
• 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.
• Programmable chips: piecing together an analog solution
  
  Author: By Ron Wilson, Executive Editor | Date: Jul 23, 2009
  As configurable and programmable analog chips grow more popular, they are raising serious questions about the traditional way to do board-level design.
• 2008 EDN DSP Directory: CoreFIR
  
  Actel's CoreFIR is a filter generator that uses a distributed arithmetic implementation methodology to create FPGA-based low- and high-pass digital filters for general signal filtering, detection, and analysis functions.
• Tool bundles target FPGAs
  
  Author: By Graham Prophet, Europe Editor | Date: Jun 25, 2009
  Xilinx this year introduced two families of Virtex-6 and Spartan-6 FPGAs that enable targeted-design platforms. The company is now adding domain-specific-tool support to the targeted-platform concept. Xilinx’ ISE (integrated software environment) Design Suite 11.1 offers interoperable
• Overcome FPGA Power Problems
  
  Author: Jon Titus | Date: Sep 4, 2009
  Titus regularly contributes articles on electronics and measurement. He has extensive experience designing with microprocessors and microcontrollers, and developed data-acquisition and instrument-control systems and taught many courses on software and hardware design. A recipient of the George R.
• FPGA verification in embedded video-processing systems
  
  Author: By Harshal Chhaya and Tarak Patel, eInfochips | Date: Jul 9, 2009
  FPGAs can be great at video processing, but verifying FPGA-based video systems requires careful attention to your approach.