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Wirelessly Going Where No Man Has Gone Before
I would like to use the MachXO2 pico to teach the robotics team that I'm coaching, www.landroids.org, about FPGA. They are well versed in Arduino, the MachXO2 Pico will provide the next step in their training.
posted by jyeh on 05/18/12 at 4:19 PM
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Ready, Set, Embed!
Embedded design is the theme of this week's Fish Fry. What do you think about this collaboration between Toyota and Nintendo? A good idea or a really bad one?
posted by amelia on 05/18/12 at 3:35 PM
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Springtime in the SoC
I want to use TI MSP-EXP430FR5739 Experimenter Board to design extension project prototype of the current project that I am working on temperature humidity controller for warehouse.
This will be auto temperature and humidity controller for the farms. …
posted by Parag on 05/17/12 at 11:25 AM
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Racing Electronics
Nice article, Dick. Count me among the envious.
posted by Jim Turley on 05/16/12 at 1:22 PM
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MIPS Plants a New Family Tree
I think, in processor architecture diagnosis, the term is no longer "hyperAptiv" but "Application Deficit Disorder" - it's when you have a great new processor but not many applications run on it yet...
posted by kevin on 05/15/12 at 5:17 PM
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The Process of Process Tracking
It's the devil's work, I tell you! Repent!
Oh, wait... It's Satin, not Satan.
Never mind.
posted by Jim Turley on 05/15/12 at 3:01 PM
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An EDA Foil Hat
Will iROC's single-event analysis tools make it safe to come out of the bunker?
posted by bmoyer on 05/10/12 at 12:41 PM
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On Your Mark
I would like a MACHXO Pico Development Kit to build a rat repellent circuit, my home has a rat problem, but I'd like to just scare them off.
posted by fbalmori on 05/09/12 at 12:38 AM
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Power When You Need It
Aldec will let you use their big-'ol server farm to run your batch HDL simulations in record time.
Interested? Scared? What do you think?
posted by kevin on 05/08/12 at 2:49 PM
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A Memristor By Any Other Name?
Hi Blaise, thanks for your thoughts. I think you'll find that the link at the end of my article goes right to the discussion you've engendered.
posted by bmoyer on 05/08/12 at 1:37 PM
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Revitalizing the Chip Startup Environment
The problem it seems is we are still stuck on Moore's law. AS long as we are on that road, expect no innovations from anybody. We need a radically different approach or methodology to spur innovations.
posted by sharath666 on 05/08/12 at 12:34 PM
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True 3D MEMS
What would you like to build if you had this extra degree of freedom?
posted by bmoyer on 05/07/12 at 2:58 PM
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Sensing 3D
This week's Fish Fry is all about the newest advances in FPGA-based video technology. What do you think about the evolution of this technology and the rising competition in the FPGA marketplace?
posted by amelia on 05/04/12 at 2:17 PM
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Verifying Today’s SoCs Requires a New Approach
Breker says that special C routines are needed to stress the architecture of an SoC before it is built. What do you think? How do you do this now?
posted by bmoyer on 05/03/12 at 2:16 PM
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Is Agile Invading Embedded?
What a great article! For as many failures that have taken place with companies trying to find the "magic pill" to ship software anywhere close to a schedule, Agile is certainly a unique approach. Some companies have adapted Agile some time ago (we, at Da…
posted by KenWithDatalight on 05/03/12 at 12:22 PM
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The Long ARM of Intel
@Amelia - Thank you 
Just got a tracking number from Altera.
posted by Lord Loh. on 05/02/12 at 6:40 PM
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Kind Of A Big Deal
Thanks for tweaking my PTSD from the massive FPGA tool rewrite I experienced round about the turn of the century. I was managing the team largely tasked with testing the software during evenings and weekends. And supporting the customers after it was rele…
posted by bmoyer on 05/02/12 at 11:31 AM
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I Can Has Roadmap?
14 nm seems so far away - perhaps deceptively. Are you looking this far ahead already?
posted by bmoyer on 04/30/12 at 12:55 PM
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A Dinosaur is Leaving Footprints in Your Smartphone
These crystals are used in nearly everything. It seems strange to me that it's not uncommon for low cost devices to have a CPU (e.g. a PIC) that costs a few cents, but that needs an external crystal that might cost more!
Apparently most TV's have more th…
posted by edfrench on 04/26/12 at 5:01 PM
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Staring Down Giants
Well, I think that the effectiveness of the FPGAs are determined in strong part both by the process used and by the tools.
For the process - clearly each process generation about doubles the density while keeping total power consumption almost the sa…
posted by kevin on 04/25/12 at 9:26 PM
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Firewalls Everywhere
There was another company at DesignWest doing something similar, but not exactly competitive. Nabto puts a tiny webserver into your mobile device or onto your chip that places it behind the corporate firewall. So rather than have to upgrade multiple dev…
posted by LouCovey on 04/23/12 at 1:12 PM
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Sensor Chemistry
How do you see the free-software-from-sensor-maker vs. third-party software thing shaking out? Where do you think the line will be drawn where people will pay for software?
posted by bmoyer on 04/23/12 at 12:27 PM
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The Three Laws of Robotics
Sometimes the user input must be verified for any accidental, unrecoverable actions such as deleting the data etc., Its safe to ask "do you really want to delete?" before deleting for ever. This might have happen accidentally. I am sure there are people w…
posted by rsenthil78 on 04/23/12 at 9:01 AM