| Design for Energy Efficiency August 2008 | |
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| White Paper: When Extending Battery Life, Two Processors are Often Better Than One |
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| By John Dixon, Texas Instruments, Inc. |
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| This paper looks at ways to extend battery life by combining DSPs and MCU. |
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| Signs of The Time |
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| By Will Strauss, Forward Concepts |
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| In his usual style, Will Strauss dishes up the facts and numbers about cell phone growth and DSP chips as well as reports activity at the last Mobile World Conference. |
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| White Paper: Primer on FPGA-based DSP Applications |
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| By Rowland Demko, Acromag, Inc. |
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| Are you still using DSPs for DSP? Re-configurable FPGAs on PMC modules offer so many advantages with high-speed parallel processing and great support tools. |
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| Femtocells: Wireless Products that both Operators and Customers can Love |
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| By Will Strauss, Forward Concepts |
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| New Report provides insight and strategies for emerging fixed mobile convergence |
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| White Paper: Critical Techniques for High Speed A/D Converters in Real-Time Systems (Third Edition Handbook) |
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| By Roger H. Hosking, Pentek, Inc. |
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| Technology, Theory, Products, Applications |
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| Power management April 2008 | |
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| Power consumption as the competitive advantage |
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| Our exclusive interview sheds light on how Actel’s strategy and technology are reshaping programmable logic for the latest power-sensitive applications. |
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| Stretching the boundaries for FPGAs and people |
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| Q&A with Jeff Kodosky, Co-Founder and Technology Fellow, National Instruments |
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| Driving both technology and cost/performance |
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| Q&A with Chris Fanning and David Lee Rutledge, Lattice Semiconductor Corporation |
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| Signal processing April 2008 | |
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| Signal processing in FPGAs goes mainstream |
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| Q&A with Jeffrey Milrod, President and CEO, BittWare |
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| “Projecting” images in radar and medical applications |
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| By David Pointer, SRC Computers |
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| An FPGA contributes to a reconfigurable system’s performance by allowing a programmer to explicitly and completely dedicate a device to the solution of the regular, uninterrupted streaming aspects of a program |
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| SIGINT in the real world presents nuances |
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| By Dr. Malachy Devlin, Nallatech |
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| The flexibility of the FPGA means it can be used to run a dynamically configurable measurement application that measures the effect of the ‘uncontrollable’ parameters. |
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| Big images, complex processing? Think objects |
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| Today’s real-time image processing hardware is feeling the pinch. Traditional reprogrammable devices are straining to keep pace across a range of automated inspection, security/surveillance, and professional video applications. |
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| Programmable logic: The key to effective interface design |
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| By Doug Morrissey , Octasic |
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| Ideally, OEMs should be able to get exactly the interfaces they need, without the cost and drawbacks of buying a fully-featured DSP. |
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| Hanging up on analog and flexing Wireless/DSP muscles |
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| By William Strauss, Forward Concepts |
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| The demise of analog cellular, the growth of InterDigital and VeriSilicon, and DSP shipments. |
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| ASICs and ASSPs January 2008 | |
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| White Paper: FPGA Judgment Day: Rise of Second Generation Structured ASICs |
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| This paper introduces a new technology, the second generation Structured ASIC, that is tipped to reenergize the path to innovation within the electronics industry. |
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| Software Defined Radio (SDR) January 2008 | |
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| Spearmint- or cinnamon-flavored handsets? An SDR the size of a Gumstix |
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| By Q & A with Steve Jennis, PrismTech |
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| At a recent Software Defined Radio Forum meeting in Portland, Oregon, PrismTech showcased their SCA implementation on a small form factor "motherboard" by Gumstix. |
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