Intel Previews 10nm “Falcon Mesa” FPGAs

Next-Node Monte Begins
by Kevin Morris - September 20, 2017

Step right up! Who feels lucky? Find the money card and win! Moore’s Law is a fickle beast. After fifty years of consistent behavior, it seems the old Law has finally gone a bit off its rocker, and nowhere is that hitch in its git-along more pronounced than in the FPGA world. Now, figuring out who’s on which node first and what it means is like trying … Read More → "Intel Previews 10nm “Falcon Mesa” FPGAs"

The Sun Also Sets

Oracle Kills SPARC and Solaris, Turns Back Time
by Jim Turley - September 19, 2017

I’m old enough to remember when Sun Microsystems was one of the cool up-and-coming companies in Silicon Valley. It had the best engineers, created the most innovations, and had the most constant “buzz” of any company around. Pizza boxes – both literal and figurative – were a badge of honor on your workbench. PCs were just for managers and their secretaries – real engineers had a workstation. And … Read More → "The Sun Also Sets"

Audio is the New UI

Tensilica HiFi 3z DSP Makes Waves
by Amelia Dalton - September 15, 2017

In the world of cutting-edge consumer electronics, audio user interfaces reign supreme. In this week’s episode of Fish Fry, we welcome Yipeng Liu from Cadence Design Systems. Yipeng and I discuss how the complexity of mobile codex sample rates is changing the consumer electronic design landscape, why automotive designs present a unique set of audio design challenges, and what lies ahead for the future of audio user interfaces. … Read More → "Audio is the New UI"

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September 22, 2017
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TE Connectivity Provides High Speed Connections for OnTime Networks
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Intel Custom Foundry Certifies Synopsys Design Platform for Intel’s 22nm FinFET Low Power Process Technology
RS Components introduces Microchip MPLAB® ICD 4 in-circuit debugger kit with faster processor and increased RAM
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eSilicon tapes out deep learning ASIC
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Altium to Preview Upcoming Altium Designer 18 Release and More at Electronic Design Show
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Where Does an Engineer’s Responsibility End?
Posted on Sep 22 at 3:46am by TotallyLost
@ericverhulst writes: When will we start to certify autonomously driving cars? Well at least in Nevada, Uber operates the certification center for it's own cars, to meet some legal mandate. http://blog.caranddriver.com/how-uber-might-self-certify-its-own-autonomous-vehicles-to-carry-the-public-in-nevada/ So we all know that will be correct, safe, etc ...
Intel Previews 10nm “Falcon Mesa” FPGAs
Posted on Sep 20 at 12:52pm by Kevin Morris
@mcgett, You are correct - my mistake. The article has now been updated.
Intel Previews 10nm “Falcon Mesa” FPGAs
Posted on Sep 20 at 10:09am by mcgett
Xilinx did not skip the TSMC 20nm node as the article states. The UltraScale Kintex and Virtex families were both on 20nm with UltraScale+ Zynq, Kintex and Virtex on the 16nm and the 7-Series Artix, Kintex, Virtex, Zynq-7000 and now Spartan on the 28nm node.
Game On for FPGAs in the Data Center
Posted on Sep 18 at 10:13am by Beercandyman
Intel's PSG OpenCL compiler works best when you don't use any of the of the OpenCL GPUish constructs. It's an efficient compiler when you just use the C99 constructs and you refactor your code to be pipelineable. The irony is that they didn't support running C/C++ code as a ...
Yet More Sensors
Posted on Sep 18 at 8:15am by Bryon Moyer
What do you think of this collection of sensors?
Where Does an Engineer’s Responsibility End?
Posted on Sep 16 at 5:26am by ericverhulst
Of course, I meant without knowing about safety engineering? Who is the engineer that implemented this comment feature without the functionality to correct typos? :-)
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