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The Right Equipment - Dodging the Cheap Board Sucker Punch (Kevin Morris)
(July 8, 2008)

Building an FPGA Design Repository by Tom Dewey, Mentor Graphics Corporation
(July 1, 2008)

Avoid FPGA Project Delays by Adopting Advanced Design Methodologies by Alex Vals, Mentor Graphics
(May 27, 2008)

Playing Pin Twister - Taray Attempts to Untangle FPGA Pin Assignment (Bryon Moyer)
(April 29, 2008)

How To Implement SystemVerilog for FPGA Design by Ehab Mohsen, Mentor Graphics Corporation
(April 29, 2008)

Merging with Agility - Alliance Unlocks FPGA Potential (Kevin Morris)
(April 22, 2008)

Synplicity Gets Spirit - ReadyIP Announcement has Bigger Implications (Kevin Morris)
(April 15, 2008)

One to Many - FPGA Design Diversifies (Kevin Morris)
(April 8, 2008)

Tools and Transceivers - Dual Xilinx Announcements (Kevin Morris)
(April 1, 2008)

Synthesis Flows Back to the Sea - Synopsys Buys Synplicity (Kevin Morris)
(March 25, 2008)

Making FPGAs Cool Again – Part 2 - How Tools Unlock the Hardware Power Capabilities (Bryon Moyer)
(March 11, 2008)

SystemVerilog is Coming to FPGA Design by Daniel Platzker, Mentor Graphics (February 19, 2008)

Effectively Using Internal Logic Analyzers for Debugging FPGAs by Brian Caslis, Lattice Semiconductor Corporation
(February 12, 2008)

State of the Union – Addressed - Major Players Weigh in on FPGA (February 5, 2008)

Pumping up Premier - Synplicity Boosts Flagship Tool (January 29, 2008)

Incremental Design Moves Towards Mainstream by Bryon Moyer, FPGA and Structured ASIC Journal (January 22, 2008)

Three “I”s of FPGA Design: Iterations, Incremental and Intelligent Design Tools by Rakesh Jain, Mentor Graphics Corp.
(January 22, 2008)

Auld Langxiety - Bracing for 2008 (December 18, 2007)

New Approach to FPGA Physical Synthesis for Ease-of-Use and Wide Device Support by Daniel Platzker and Jaggi Balasubramanian, Mentor Graphics (December 18, 2007)

Legacy of Languages - Culture in Code (December 4, 2007)

Altium Goes 3D - Board Design Can Be Fun (November 27, 2007)

Designing Down Power - Actel Boosts Low-power Tool Suite (November 20, 2007)

Physical Synthesis Flows for FPGA Designs by Frédéric Rivoallon, Xilinx, Inc. (November 20, 2007)

MicroBlazing Away - Xilinx Boosts Embedded Ecosystem (November 13, 2007)

Duct Tape, FPGAs, and the Art of Making Great Multi-Purpose Tools, by Darren Zacher, Mentor Graphics Corporation (October 30, 2007)

Teaching them to Fish - Xilinx Expands Services (October 23, 2007)

Dialing-in DSP on FPGA - Catapult Customized for Altera (October 16, 2007)

Happy Birthday! - FPGA Journal Turns 4 (October 2, 2007)

Pumping Up Precision - Mentor Upgrades Synthesis (September 25, 2007)

A New Way to Design FPGAs by Simon Bloch, Mentor Graphics Corp. (September 11, 2007)

Battery-Powered Proof - Development Board with a Mission (September 4, 2007)

Surveillance Silicon - Stretch Spans the Software Gap (August 21, 2007)

Design Tool Evolution by Rob Irwin, Altium Limited (August 21, 2007)

FP?A - The Quest for the Best Building Blocks (July 24, 2007)

Altium’s Alternative - Turning System Design Inside Out (June 19, 2007)

FPGAs at DAC - Programmable Logic Powers Verification (June 5, 2007)

Beyond the Go Button - Taking More Control of FPGA Design (May 15, 2007)

The Value of a Complete FPGA Design Flow by Tom Dewey, Mentor Graphics (May 1, 2007)

ABCs of ESC - FPGAs are A-OK (April 10, 2007)

It Takes a Whole Ecosystem - to Raise a Platform (March 27, 2007)

Deterministic Name Generation for Incremental Synthesis by Quan Dinh Tran, and Dan Devries, Mentor Graphics Corporation
(March 13, 2007)

FPGA I/O Design is (also) a PCB Problem by Bruce Riggins, Mentor Graphics Corporation (February 20, 2007)

ISE Storm - Xilinx 9.1i Packs New Capabilities (January 30, 2007)

Prototype to Production - Lattice Launches FreedomChip (January 23, 2007)

TotalRecall - Synplicity Innovates in Verification (January 9, 2007)

Unified FPGA-ASIC Design Flow Provides Designers Versatility in Meeting Production Goals by Sheldon D’Paiva, Magma Design Automation (December 5, 2006)

StratixIII - Altera Sails into Sixty-five (November 7, 2006)

Low-Cost ASIC Conversion Targets Consumer Success by Terry Danzer, AMI Semiconductor, Inc.(November 7, 2006)

Soft Core War - LatticeMico32 Opens the Field (September 26, 2006)

Connecting the Camps - MathWorks Bridges System and Hardware Design (September 19, 2006)

IP to Go - Chip Estimate Fills the IP Gap (September 12, 2006)

Accelerating RTL Analysis & Creation with Spreadsheets, by Michael Lee, Mentor Graphics (September 12, 2006)

A Mile in Their Shoes - Altium’s Engineering Empathy (August 22, 2006)

Integrating PCB and FPGA Constraints - by Bruce Riggins, Mentor Graphics Corporation (August 22, 2006)

Critical Commoditization - SoftJin Simplifies Synthesis (August 8, 2006)

FPGAs at DAC - Seen but not Heard (August 1, 2006)

Electronic Elitism - DAC Divulges Design Tool Dilemmas (July 25, 2006)

DAC Previsited - Dawn of the Design Tool Decade (July 18, 2006)

System-Level Sideshow - ESL Eases FPGA Design (July 11, 2006)

Tooling up for 65nm - Xilinx Updates Software for Virtex-5 (July 4, 2006)

Catapult Levels Up - Mentor Attacks ESL Subsystem Design (June 13, 2006)

Complex ASIC Timing Verification Converges with FPGA-Based Designs by Alessandro Fasan, Altera Corporation (June 13, 2006)

Time for a Change - Mentor Modernizes the ECO (May 30, 2006)

Altera's Quartus II 6.0 - Tools Turn up the Heat (May 23, 2006)

On the Cutting-Edge of FPGA Design and Verification by Allen Vexler, A2e Technologies (May 16, 2006)

Need to Accelerate the Creation of Technology-Independent DSP Hardware? by Shawn McCloud, Mentor Graphics (April 18, 2006)

Undertow of Ubiquity - FPGAs Abound at ESC (April 11, 2006)

Parallelizing PCB - Mentor's Multi-node Router Goes Auto (April 11, 2006)

C to FPGA - Altera Accelerates Nios II (April 4, 2006)

Are You Designing with Too Many Significant Figures? by George Harper, Bluespec, Inc. (March 21, 2006)

Field Programmable Gate Arrays for Flexible and Fast Data Processing by Michael Lundh, Fredrik Lundell, Said Zahrai, and Daniel Söderberg (March 14, 2006)

How to Avoid PCB Libraries Stifling FPGA Design - by Dave Brady, Mentor Graphics Corporation (February 21, 2006)

Planning Ahead - Xilinx Updates Hierarchical Design Tool (February 7, 2006)

Taming Embedded Multi-Core on FPGAs for Packet Processing - by Bryon Moyer, Teja Technologies, Inc. (January 31, 2006)

Design Challenges Flow Downstream - by Dave Wiens, Mentor Graphics Corporation (January 10, 2006)

Bundling Performance - Lessons from Xilinx ISE 8.1i (December 13, 2005)

Just What is Algorithmic Synthesis? - by Bryan Bowyer, Technical Marketing Engineer, Mentor Graphics Corporation (December 6, 2005)

Synplifying Physical Synthesis - Going Graph-based with Synplicity (October 4, 2005)

SRC Code - 'Tis a Far, Far Better Compiler (July 12, 2005)

A New Spin on FPGA Re-spins - by Juergen Jaeger, Mentor Graphics (July 12, 2005)

Ditchin' DAC - Analysis from an Absentee (June 28, 2005)

What the Hell is ESL? Enigmatic Software L______? (June 21 2005)

Accelerating C Software Applications - by Greg Edvenson, Pico Computing and David Pellerin, Impulse Accelerated Technologies (June 7, 2005)

Shrink-wrapping EDA - Altium Designer Changes the Rules (June 7, 2005)

Pedal to the Metals - A Crash Course in High-Speed Design (May 17, 2005)

Free Tool Friday - How Good are FPGA Vendor Tools? (March 22, 2005)

Plug and Play Design Methodologies for FPGA-based Signal Processing - by Narinder Lall, Xilinx, Inc. and Eric Cigan, AccelChip, Inc.
(March 8, 2005)

Co-Verification Methodology for Platform FPGAs -  by Milan Saini, Xilinx, Inc. and Ross Nelson, Mentor Graphics (February 22, 2005)

Simulator Savvy - Getting the Most From Your HDL (February 15, 2005)

The Impact of Timing Exceptions on FPGA Performance - by James Henson, FishTail Design Automation Inc. (February 15, 2005)

Leading Languages - Is There a Future Beyond RTL? (January 18, 2005)

Accelerating Processor-based Systems - by Farzad Zarrinfar, Bill Salefski, and Stephen Simon, Poseidon Design Systems (January 18, 2005)

Debug Dilemma - Simulate or Emulate? (January 11, 2005)

Deliver Products On-Time with RTL Hardware Debug - by Dennis McCarty, Technical Marketing Manager, Synplicity (January 11, 2005)

Fresh Findings - New FPGA Products Hit the Streets (January 4, 2005)

3rd Party EDA - Tools from Other Sources (December 21, 2004)

Destination DSP - Methodologies for Signal Processing Success (November 30, 2004)

Benchmarking Battlefield - Measuring the Metrics of FPGA Technology (November 16, 2004)

Does Single-pass Physical Synthesis Work for FPGAs? - by Sanjay Bali, Mentor Graphics Corp. (October 26, 2004)

First Annual FPGA Journal Awards - We Tell You Your Favorites (October 5, 2004)

FPGA-PCB Co-Design - More Than Just Data Transfer, by Rob Irwin, Manager, Brand Strategy, Altium (August 24, 2004)

The Challenges of Modern FPGA Design Verification - by Jerry Kaczynski, Technical Manager, Aldec Inc. (July 27, 2004)

Board Room - Mentor Tackles FPGA on PCB (July 20, 2004)

DAC's Dangerous Undertones - Winds of Change in EDA (June 15, 2004)

Cool and Groovy at DAC - What's Hot in Design Automation (June 15, 2004)

Racing for the Gap - Altera and Synopsys go Structured (June 8, 2004)

FPGA Simulation - Forget What you Learned in ASIC Design (June 1, 2004)

Catapult C - Mentor Announces Architectural Synthesis (June 1, 2004)

The Next Implementation Fabric by Andrew B. Kahng, UCSD (May 18, 2004)

Algorithms to Silicon - Using Prototype Boards to Accelerate System-level Verification, by Tom Feist, AccelChip Inc. (May 11, 2004)

DSP Heats Up - Synplicity Enters DSP Synthesis (May 11, 2004)

Fast and Accurate Multi-GigaHertz Modeling Techniques - by Donald Telian, Cadence Design Systems, Inc. (April 27, 2004)

A Sleeping Giant Awakes - Synopsys Enters FPGA For Real (March 16, 2004)

Tilting at Tech Market Windmills - The Debate Over Dataquest Numbers (March 16, 2004)

Aftermarket Avalanche - New Products Propel FPGAs into a Broader Base (March 9, 2004)

Top-Down DSP Design Flow to Silicon Implementation - by Dan Ganousis, AccelChip, Inc. (March 9, 2004)

Physics Drives Physical into the Mainstream - New Demands on Design Tools (March 2, 2004)

Synthesis Shootout - Benchmarking Synthesis Tools (January 27, 2004)

FPGAs Provide Acceleration for Software Algorithms - by David Pellerin, Impulse Accelerated Technologies, Inc. and Milan Saini, Technical Marketing Manager, Xilinx, Inc. (January 20, 2004)

To Buy or Not to Buy - Will FPGA Designers Pay ASIC Prices for EDA Tools? (January 13, 2004)

Design-in Kits Simplify Serial PCB by Brad Griffin, Cadence Design Systems (December 9, 2003)

Language Barrier - How Will the Next Generation of FPGAs be Designed? (November 18, 2003)

What's the Right Language for DSP System-Level Design? - by Tom Feist, VP of Marketing, AccelChip, Inc. (November 18, 2003)

Board with FPGAs - Challenges Getting your FPGA to Work on Your Board (November 11, 2003)

Getting Physical - A new Generation of Physical Design Tools Target FPGA (November 4, 2003)

Corralling the Complexity of FPGAs - by Jackson Kreiter, of Hier Design, Inc. (November 4, 2003)

Design Tool Quandary - Which Design-Tool Flow is Right for Your Project? (October 14, 2003)

Beyond Processors - Implementing High-Performance DSP Algorithms in FPGA (October 7, 2003)

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