In the old days, we had only two kinds of FPGA – small and smaller, also known as slow and slower, or hot and hotter…  The technology was useful for a few high-value applications, but it was limited on all three fronts – density (cost), speed, and power — from attacking a much broader market.  … Read More → "Tools and Transceivers"

The royalty walk quietly among the common folk here.  The thick-carpeted mahogany-veneered opulence typical of high-tech presidential palaces is nowhere to be seen.  Instead, on an ordinary floor in an ordinary building overlooking a nondescript cube farm are two adjacent rooms that would probably be conference rooms at your company.  Not the special, glossy, wood-wrapped, … Read More → "Passing the Torch"