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2. uC/OS-III The Real-Time Kernel
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I've long wanted to know more about how a Real-Time Operating System (RTOS) performs its magic and how to use one of these little rascals, but there's surprisingly little written about this subject. Fortunately, ...

3. New eSi-RISC Scalable Soft Processor Cores for ASICs and FPGAs
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How exciting! We're talking about a trio of highly configurable processors ranging from 8.5K gates to 20K gates suitable for ASIC and/or FPGA implementation (in the latter case they are claimed to deliver ...

4. Processor Design: System-On-Chip Computing for ASICs and FPGAs
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Processor Design: System-On-Chip Computing for ASICs and FPGAs ed. Jari Nurmi ISBN-13: 978-1402055294 Springer, 2007 Back in the 1980s, during the rise of the RISC era, it seemed that new processor architectures ...

5. Karnaugh Maps (Part 2)
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In this, the second installment of a two-part mini-series, we consider grouping minterms in more detail, along with the concepts of incompletely specified functions and populating Karnaugh maps using 0s ...

6. Altium's Latest NanoBoard is Mega-Cool!
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I just heard that Altium has launched a new addition to its NanoBoard family of FPGA-based development boards. Called the NanoBoard 3000, this little scamp is absolutely amazing, not the least that it ...

7. Gray Codes (Part 2)
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The term Gray code is typically used to refer to a binary sequence in which only a single bit changes value when transitioning between adjacent states. In this, the second installment of our mini-series, ...

8. Positive Versus Negative Logic
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The terms positive logic and negative logic refer to two conventions that dictate the relationship between logical values and the physical voltages used to represent them. Unfortunately, although the core ...

9. Mega-Smackdown at ESC Silicon Valley in April 2010
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When creating your next embedded system, should you use a discrete off-the-shelf processor, or should you embed the processor in an FPGA? This will be the topic of a No-Holds-Barred live debate between ...

10. Actel Space Forum Lands in Israel
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... and engineering teams. The presentations discussed contemporary topics relevant to using Actel FPGAs in space-flight applications. During this interactive event, designers gained knowledge and an understanding ...

11. Tabula launches ABAX FPGAs based on 3D Spacetime architecture
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Deployed on TSMC's 40 nm process, the folks at Tabula have just announced their new ABAX family of FPGAs, which are based on Tabula's 3D Spacetime architecture. ABAX FPGAs are claimed to offer unprecedented ...

12. ASCII, EBCDIC, ISO, and Other Computer Codes (Part 4)
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Digital computers represent and manipulate all forms of data as a collection of numerical values. In the case of text, alphanumerical and punctuation characters are each assigned a numerical equivalent, ...

13. YES! Mentor introduces Rad-Tolerant FPGA Synthesis!
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Thank Goodness! Finally! Someone has realized the importance of being able to create radiation-tolerant SRAM-based FPGA designs for high-availability and mission-critical applications. Hostile environments ...

14. LFSRs (Part 2)
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An LFSR is a shift register whose output is cunningly manipulated and fed back into its input in such a way as to cause the function to endlessly cycle through a sequence of patterns. In this, the second ...

15. An Introduction to Software-Defined Radio (SDR)
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... FPGA, rather than being done in special-purpose hardware. While the concept of SDR is not new, the evolving capabilities of digital electronics are making rapid economical progress in many practical applications ...

16. Silicon Blue IceMan65 Development board review
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This is the main development board offered by Silicon Blue Technologies for their ultra low power ICE65L FPGA's. I happen to have one of the very first boards (the board has serial nummer 5, from 15 total ...

17. Is Synopsys getting ready to buy EVE?
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... ability to include FPGA based execution, but no emulator in their product line-up. Could this be the start of Synopsys making an acquisition for EVE? Synopsys has tried to get into the emulation market ...

18. Hurray! I've got my own BeMicro FPGA-based MCU evaluation board!
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One of the really cool things about running the FPGA Community here on TechBites.com is that I get to play with all sorts of cool "goodies". Just a few moments ago as I pen these words, for example, a ...

19. Creating an Open Source-based FPGA Design Flow
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The combination of modern FPGAs and recent developments in open source electronic design automation (EDA) and intellectual property (IP) technology have brought the cost of starting an FPGA design outfit ...

20. ASCII, EBCDIC, ISO, and Other Computer Codes (Part 3)
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Digital computers represent and manipulate all forms of data as a collection of numerical values. In the case of text, alphanumerical and punctuation characters are each assigned a numerical equivalent, ...