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IN THIS ISSUE:
What's That In Your Hand?
Today, most of the devices you own fit in the palm of your hand: from smartphones and digital cameras to portable medical equipment and barcode scanners. Handheld devices are being used at work, home, and on the run—I used my smartphone to keep my personal blog up-to-date while traveling home for the holidays.
If you thought that nothing new could be invented, check the new Samsung TL225: the dual LCD helps you see what you are capturing, even if it is your own face! And the second LCD is partially controlled by an Actel IGLOO® low-power FPGA. Get the full details from the article on Embedded.com.
Are you ready to be part of the Handheld Revolution?
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Volume Is Dead! Long Live Volume!
by Brian Fuller
Is it finally time to declare victory?
FPGA makers have fought pitched battles against ASICs on every technology front for the past three decades: performance, low-power and even design environments were once seemingly thorny or insurmountable problems for FPGAs, but this decade they have been solved.
The one battle that always bloodied FPGAs more than others was volume production comparison: FPGA economics fall apart at certain volumes because they're just inherently bigger than ASICs. ASICs can be optimized better and, as we know from Semiconductor Design 101, less space on the wafer equals less cost out the door equals higher margin.
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Power Management Made Simple…
… powerful, compact and easily reusable. Intelligent digital power management (IDPM)
solutions provide high-level power management in a low-power, configurable, single-chip design, while still delivering high levels of system power control with minimal impact
to power consumption and board space—ideal for telecom line-card applications, and industrial, consumer and aerospace
applications.
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