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• 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.
• 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.
• FPGA Gurus News | EDN
  
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• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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
• 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.
• EDN's 2006 Innovation finalists: It's show time!
  
  Author: By Staff | Date: Feb 1, 2007
  Check out the list of finalists and cast your votes in our annual program honoring engineering excellence.
• 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.
• 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: 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• Use 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.