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

EDA tools
 → June 2010
System design needs to rise above “C-level”

System design needs to rise above ìC-levelî

Ken Karnofsky (MathWorks)
One approach to catching integration problems and design flaws at an earlier stage

 → June 2010

Rugged FPGA I/O team likely to draft XMC/FMC

Rob Hoyecki (Curtiss-Wright Controls Embedded Computing)
Real estate broker? How FMCs free up real estate for more I/O.

Market projections
 → June 2010
Snapdragons, sapphires, and starting (again) in the cell phone business

Snapdragons, sapphires, and starting (again) in the cell phone business

Will Strauss (Forward Concepts)
Will touches on a number of topics, including what it will take to make headway in the 4G handset market.

GPGPU
 → June 2010

Manycore processors can replace FPGAs

Peter Thompson (GE Intelligent Platforms)
Latency and scalability are among the criteria to consider when weighing FPGA versus manycore processor use

OpenVPX
 → April 2010
OpenVPX systems speed the move to all-digital RADAR

OpenVPX systems speed the move to all-digital RADAR

Rob Hoyecki (Curtiss-Wright Controls Embedded Computing)
It's a match: An architecture that's scalable (OpenVPX) takes on the systolic-to-fully-parallel digital beamformer scaling challenge military system integrators face.

Market Research
 → April 2010

CTIA observations

Will Strauss (Forward Concepts)
Thoughts from CTIA and word of a novel 3D PLD architecture

Market issues
 → February 2010

Chip shipments on the upswing

Will Strauss (Forward Concepts)
What was top of mind for Will following CES?

Critical systems
 → February 2010

Latest ADCs will cut IF sampling down to nanoseconds

Rob Hoyecki (Curtiss-Wright Controls Embedded Computing)
Why receiver systems are poised for noticeable upticks in range, sensitivity, and selectivity.

Data acquisition
 → February 2010

Compressing ADCs defuses data rate explosion in Data Acquisition Systems

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

Algorithms
 → February 2010
White Paper: Synthesizing Algorithms from MATLAB and Model-based Descriptions

White Paper: Synthesizing Algorithms from MATLAB and Model-based Descriptions

Chris Eddington (Synopsys, Inc.)
Algorithm design is one of the most significant factors in the increasing complexity of IC design and verification. Algorithm, signal processing, and system engineers have increasingly been using MATLAB and Simulink for very concise modeling and design of their algorithms. This paper introduces Synopsys' Synphony High Level Synthesis (HLS) product which allows designers to take algorithm concepts developed at this high level and automatically and reliably implement them directly into silicon. ... [read more]

Video
 → December 2009

Joint FPGA-DSP grab, squeeze, and send effort sees video compression success

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.

Signal processing
 → December 2009

For floating-point processing, new choice arrives with the new decade

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.

Software Defined Radio (SDR)
 → December 2009

Taming Software-Defined Radio: A graphical user interface for digital communication system prototyping

Michael J. Leferman (Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI)); 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)

Market Research
 → December 2009
DC-HSPA+, MediaTek\'s rise, and training wheels

DC-HSPA+, MediaTek's rise, and training wheels

Will Strauss (Forward Concepts)
Will examines several reasons MediaTek looks to be more of a contender as 2010 Q1 begins.

Software development
 → November 2009

Tackling Linux size, modularity, and GPL issues

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.

DSP
 → November 2009

Performance, flexibility, and efficiency make the case for market-specific DSPs

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

Design considerations
 → November 2009

Unraveling debug and design verification snags

Paul Bradley (DAFCA)
Growing FPGA complexity need not equal a corresponding growth in costs or time to market.

Market issues
 → November 2009

Q4 sees buys, mergers, and a niche player worth watching

Will Strauss (Forward Concepts)
Insights from Will on the cell phone chip market. lossless signal compression, and more

DSP
 → November 2009

Intel tries DSP again...using a "soft" approach

Chris A. Ciufo, Editor (OpenSystems Media)
Software is key to Intel's DSP plans.

High Performance Computing (HPC)
 → November 2009

OpenVPX and high-speed interconnects usher in a new era of highly scalable DSP systems

Rob Hoyecki (Curtiss-Wright Controls Embedded Computing)
Hinderances to building large-scale DSP systems are falling by the wayside.

VPX
 → October 2009

Why 3U VPX has an edge over CompactPCI for FPGA/DSP military applications

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

DSP
 → October 2009

Portrait of a power miser: Open-architecture DSP core teams with a number-crunching accelerator for audio apps

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.

White paper
 → October 2009

White Paper: Using the NAG Toolbox for MATLABÆ

Staff (Numerical Algorithms Group)
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.

Design considerations
 → October 2009

White Paper: ISE Design Suite 11.1: Creating the First User-Specific FPGA Design Environments

Mark Goosman (Xilinx, Inc.)
Taking on the designer productivity, time to market, and results quality trifecta

Market projections
 → August 2009

Everything you ever wanted to know about the cellular chip market - 2009

Will Strauss (Forward Concepts)
This article details market forecasts for virtually all cell phone integrated circuits, including digital basebands, RF transceivers and PAs, application processors, graphics and other coprocessors, imagers, touch-screen controllers, and chips for all the new functions being added to cell phones.

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