Articles, Columns, Interviews, and White Papers for DSP, FPGA, and Programmable Logic Design

By Rob Hoyecki (Curtiss-Wright Controls Embedded Computing)

Why receiver systems are poised for noticeable upticks in range, sensitivity, and selectivity.

By Will Strauss (Forward Concepts)

What was top of mind for Will following CES?

By Daniel Kreindler (Samplify)

If there were a DAS Olympics, algorithms competing in the "Compression for Medical/Wireless" event would be among the fastest.

By Tim Klassen (GE Intelligent Platforms)

Adding an FPGA to a team that includes a hybrid DSP device with a general-purpose CPU and DSP engine makes for a productive take on interfacing with numerous dissimilar video standards, compressing them to a common standard, and transmitting the result over an Ethernet link.

By Will Strauss (Forward Concepts)

Will examines several reasons MediaTek looks to be more of a contender as 2010 Q1 begins.

By Michael J. Leferman (Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI)) and Alexander M. Wyglinski (Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI))

Dream Stream: Getting around what would have been an arduous learning curve by using Simulink for streaming access to the Universal Software Radio Peripheral 2 (USRP2)

By Rob Hoyecki (Curtiss-Wright Controls Embedded Computing)

Rob outlines several reasons developers addressing COTS military signal processing have reason to consider the Intel Core i7 micro-architecture.

By Rob Hoyecki (Curtiss-Wright Controls Embedded Computing)

Hinderances to building large-scale DSP systems are falling by the wayside.

By Chris A. Ciufo, Editor

Software is key to Intel's DSP plans.

By Will Strauss (Forward Concepts)

Insights from Will on the cell phone chip market. lossless signal compression, and more

By Paul Bradley (DAFCA)

Growing FPGA complexity need not equal a corresponding growth in costs or time to market.

By Eran Briman (CEVA)

4G wireless communications processing and HD video/audio processing are among the challenges market-specific DSPs are gearing up to handle.

By Kim Rowe (Rowebots)

Kim outlines options for developers facing proprietary kernels and OSs that can substantially limit future architectural choices, driving up costs and reducing profits.

By David Coode (ON Semiconductor)

Embedded DSP-based solutions are stepping to the plate for a squeeze play. Digital audio processing solutions must fit into less space and consume less power than ever.

By Rob Hoyecki (Curtiss-Wright Controls Embedded Computing)

Making the case for a form factor that the mil-aero COTS community can rely on for high-speed fabric support

The Numerical Algorithms Group (NAG) developed the first mathematical software library, now the largest commercially available collection of mathematical and statistical algorithms. Here you will find demonstrated how to call some popular NAG routines and how to use MATLAB's plotting facilities to view the results.

By Mark Goosman (Xilinx, Inc.)

Taking on the designer productivity, time to market, and results quality trifecta

By Will Strauss (Forward Concepts)

This article details market forecasts for virtually all cell phone integrated circuits, including digital basebands, RF transceivers and PAs, ap... (continues)

By Chris Ciufo (Editor)

Operating system companies targeting cell phones and mobile internet devices provide software that'll drive the greater embedded market.

By Eran Strod (Black Duck Software)

Managing open source software

By Mark Littlefield (Curtiss-Wright Controls Embedded Computing)

Overcoming the difficulty of designing an FPGA with I/O that suits a variety of applications.

By Will Strauss (Forward Concepts)

Could it be a contender? Will thinks yes with regard to Samsung's beefier 45nm low-leakage CMOS edition of its ARM Cortex-A8 implementation.

By Michael Santarini (Xilinx, Inc.)

Different strokes for different folks: What to expect regarding the versatility of new tool flow solutions.

By Rob Hoyecki (Curtiss-Wright Controls Embedded Computing)

Filling an information gap when it comes to power use

By Stefano Zammattio (Altera Corporation)

Using FPGAs to add a LCD and GUI display to any embedded system.