Mike Demler, Editorial Director, OpenSystems Media —
As the available gate count in FPGAs continues to grow, with 28 nm devices now in full production, more automation is required in design flows to enable engineers to deal with the increased complexity. In a typical FPGA design flow, engineers start imp...
Mike Demler, Editorial Director, OpenSystems Media —
Android’s fragmentation was on display at CES, despite Google’s best efforts to generate cohesive standards, but it’s not all bad.
Mike Demler, Editorial Director, OpenSystems Media —
While wireless operators add more spectrum to build their next generation networks, multimode devices will be required to adapt to an increasing number of variations in each deployment.
Mike Demler, Editorial Director, OpenSystems Media —
Devices integrating programmable logic into processors are easing the translation between software and hardware engineering teams in FPGA design flows.
Mike Demler, Editorial Director, OpenSystems Media —
FPGAs can offer designers a cost-performance advantage over ASICs for applications that require leading-edge semiconductor processes, but improvements in design tools and ease-of-use will be required in order to gain more widespread adoption.
Mike Demler, Editorial Director, OpenSystems Media —
The merger and acquisition game relating to EDA companies has changed, with IC design tools becoming a valuable addition to non-EDA companies with plans to develop more highly integrated solutions for electronic product development.
Chris A. Ciufo, Editor, OpenSystems Media —
New alliance sees Microsoft Kinect, smart cameras, algorithms and processors as the future of input devices.
Chris A. Ciufo, Editor, OpenSystems Media —
Xilinx defies Moore’s Law and increasing fab costs by implementing stacked chip FPGAs. This might be a game-changer.
Chris A. Ciufo, Editor, OpenSystems Media —
Software is key to Intel's DSP plans.
Chris A. Ciufo, Editor, OpenSystems Media —
Operating system companies targeting cell phones and mobile internet devices provide software that'll drive the greater embedded market.
Chris A. Ciufo, Editor, OpenSystems Media —
Tightening the grip on faster and easier development
Chris A. Ciufo, Editor, OpenSystems Media —
Although FPGA architects still need skills as IC designers, that mythical “C to silicon” tool doesn’t yet exist, but it’s closer.
Chris A. Ciufo, OpenSystems Publishing —
The following Letter to the Editor addresses the Editor’s Insight column published in the recent print Resource Guide issue of DSP-FPGA.com. Gedae takes issue with my comments that tools do not exist to simplify the problem of designing DSP functions into FPGAs.
Chris A. Ciufo, OpenSystems Publishing —
Two trends I wanted to see over the last 12 months but didn’t. Each of these could have huge ramifications on the entire industry, if I could only will them into existence. Maybe next year.
