Who’s the Competition Now?

FPGA Companies Enter New Arenas

by Kevin Morris

Life is simple in a duopoly.

They say that nothing unites people more than a common enemy. If you want everyone in your company to be motivated and working toward one common goal, nothing is more powerful than a single, identifiable competitor at whom you can unleash the full force of your company’s competitive fury. The singularity of vision required for good teamwork is supplied for you - almost by magic. People do not have to believe in some abstract vision of the future handed down from executive management of dubious origin and questionable motives. Rather, they can identify for themselves the goals and objectives in a common-sense plan for taking down the adversary.  Read More


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Who’s the Competition Now?

Posted on 05/22/12 at 1:32 PM by MikePDX

MikePDX
Used to be when some new function found success on FPGAs, somebody would tape it out as an ASIC at 1/10 the price and/or 10x the speed, and that was that for the FPGA version.

Now that a cutting-edge ASIC costs $20-30M+ (counting logical and physical d…

Who’s the Competition Now?

Posted on 05/22/12 at 12:54 PM by kevin

kevin
FPGA companies are entering some new markets with some ferocious new competitors. In the near future, it won't be good enough to simply beat the guys across town. Are the FPGA folks ready for this scary new jungle?

The Power of Tcl in PlanAhead

Posted on 05/21/12 at 9:58 PM by pheelixk

pheelixk
Hopefully the editors are little more open-mided.....Just use Camtasia Studio.

More Ears for Better Sound

Posted on 05/21/12 at 3:34 PM by bmoyer

bmoyer
Akustica (and others) see the number of mikes proliferating. Where do you seem them being deployed in groups?

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