a techfocus media publication :: July 15, 2008 :: volume XX, no. 03

FROM THE EDITOR

This week, we turn our focus on… you. We’ve been running a reader survey lately, and the results are fascinating. We are using the data to divine some interesting trends in FPGA technology. For a look in our wide-view mirror, check out this week’s newest feature. If you haven’t taken the survey yet… we’ll let you peek anyway, but you have to promise to give us your input.

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Techfocus Media, Inc.

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CURRENT FEATURE ARTICLES

Who Are You People?
...and What Do You Want? (Kevin Morris)
The Right Equipment
Dodging the Cheap Board Sucker Punch

(Kevin Morris)
Renaissance FAEs
Our Once and Future Saviors
(Kevin Morris)

Building an FPGA Design Repository
by Tom Dewey, Mentor Graphics Corporation
Two Chips Or One?
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(Bryon Moyer)
A Passel of Processors
NVIDIA’s Tesla T10P Blurs Some Lines
(Kevin Morris)

JOURNAL WEBCASTS

CHALK TALK Power Matters. Trying to tame power consumption in your battery-powered device? Join Journal Webcasts host Amelia Dalton as she chats with Wendy Lockhart of Actel about how you can use ultra-low power programmable devices from Actel in even the most power-sensitive designs. (Actel)

CHALK TALK Creating Secure Mobile Devices With Open Kernel Labs OKL4. In this Chalk Talk, Amelia Dalton delves into the world of software security and microkernels in mobile devices with Gernot Heiser and Rob McCammon of Open Kernel Labs. (Open Kernel Labs)

CHALK TALK Low Power Design With Xilinx and Linear Technology. Join Amelia Dalton as she chats with Mark Moran of Xilinx and Afshin Odabaee of Linear Technology about low power FPGA based designs. (Xilinx)

CHALK TALK Designing Embedded Systems With Linux and low cost FPGAs. Join Amelia Dalton as she chats with industry experts about simplifying embedded systems design with Linux running on low-cost programmable system-on-chip platforms. (Xilinx)

CHALK TALK Lowest Total System Cost With Xilinx
Spartan-3
. Amelia Dalton chats with Mark Moran of Xilinx about reducing your overall system cost with Xilinx Spartan-3 family of FPGAs (Xilinx)

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Who Are You People?
...and What Do You Want?
(Kevin Morris)


Over 60,000 people in over 100 countries read FPGA Journal.

Apparently, you’re one of them.

While we may be the perennial pundits of programmable logic, we don’t deceive ourselves into thinking that FPGAs are some sort of universal unification language.  We do, however, think that programmable devices like FPGAs will be one of the most important technologies in electronic design moving forward.  With the rapid evolution of the global high-tech economy, our position in the FPGA space gives us a fascinating lens through which we can observe and prognosticate about the pending progress of electronic engineering. [more]


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