Bridging the Gap
The Real World Meets Innovation At The Avnet Tech Games
In this week’s Fish Fry, I interview Joe Tillison (Technical Director for Avnet Electronics Marketing Americas) about the upcoming Avnet Tech Games. From racing robots to a new game called “Kevin’s High-Tech Home Makeover”, Joe and I sort through the details of the Avnet Tech Games and chat about why the these games aren’t like your average high tech scholarship contests. Also this week, I dig into my mailbag and come up with a sponsorship opportunity for industrious engineers.
I have another (yes really!!) MAX V CPLD development kit courtesy of Altera to give away this week, but you’ll have to find out how to win. Read More
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January 27, 2012
Microsemi Acquires Timing, Synchronization and Synthesis Business from Maxim Integrated Products
January 26, 2012
January 25, 2012
Altium releases new range of board-level components in collaboration with STMicroelectronics
Dual 3A, 2.5MHz, 42V Boost/Inverting DC/DC Converter with Fault Protection
January 24, 2012
XP Power extends fleXPower series of configurable power supplies up to 2500 Watts
CommAgility first to ship AMC boards with highest speed Texas Instruments DSPs
January 20, 2012
TEWS TECHNOLOGIES introduces Spartan-6 AMC for MTCA.4
January 18, 2012
January 17, 2012
Synchronous Step-Down DC/DC Controller Delivers Up to 95% Efficiency with 2MHz Operating Frequency
Avnet Tech Games Registration Opens for Spring Virtual Competition and Onsite Games
January 16, 2012
CAST Shipping New CAN Bus Controller IP Core
January 12, 2012
January 11, 2012
Kawasaki Microelectronics Licenses CAST 8051 IP Core for New Design Platform
Tools for the Gifted
Packet Plus Brings Debugging to Networking Engineers
Connecting the Dots
One Embedded Design at a Time
The Valley of FPGA
Where Green Pastures End
Pay No Attention to The Man Behind the Curtain
The Gritty PR Underbelly of CES
Editors' Blog
A Company Reunion?
posted by Bryon Moyer
As Lattice buys SiliconBlue, two diverging paths have come back together again. (13-Dec)
Veridae Drops the Third Shoe
posted by Bryon Moyer
They split their original Clarus product into three, and the third one has arrived. (7-Jun)
Steve Trimberger becomes ACM Fellow
posted by Kevin Morris
On Saturday, June 4, Steve Trimberger will be inducted as an ACM Fellow. This prestigious achievement is a significant milestone for all of us that believe that programmable logic technology is one of the most significant developments of the past half century. Steve isn't resting on his laurels and he isn't just fine-tuning Xilinx FPGAs, though. We had a chat with him about the honor, his past, and his plans for the future, including a couple of interesting side trips. (3-Jun)
Why Aren't Virtual Conferences Cool?
posted by Kevin Morris
Have you tried attending a virtual conference? I have - several, in fact. In this blog post I give a full review of the concept - along with my modest proposal for fixing what's obviously wrong with the medium. What do you think? (17-May)
Selling What?
posted by Kevin Morris
Looking at Jim Turley's article on business models got me thinking about the two most successful EDA companies on the planet - Xilinx and Altera... (27-Apr)
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