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THE EDITOR
We at FPGA Journal are very excited to be
celebrating our first birthday. On October 1, 2003 we launched
the FPGA Journal website and FPGA Journal Update weekly e-newsletter.
Now we’re looking
back at our first year and forward toward the next in our “Happy
Birthday to Us” feature article.
We are also proud to present the results
of our first annual FPGA Journal Awards where we tell you what you told us about your favorite
FPGA-related vendors, products and services. Our industry benefits
from a wealth of outstanding companies and you thought a few of
them deserved special recognition.
Thanks
for reading! If
there's anything we can do to make our publications more useful
to you, please let us know at: comments@fpgajournal.com
Kevin Morris – Editor
FPGA and Programmable Logic Journal
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Lattice
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AMI
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for Next Generation Structured ASIC Test
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Happy Birthday To Us!
FPGA Journal Turns One
Light the candles …er… candle,
sing the song, pummel the piñata, and uncork the champagne. It’s
been one year since FPGA Journal’s first edition, and it’s
time to look back and celebrate our inaugural year. Our lights first
came on October 1, 2003 when FPGA Journal Update Volume I Number 1 went
out to about 1,000 early subscribers. During the year that followed,
our newsletter subscription base has grown to over 8,500 and our web
audience to over 34,000 readers in 87 countries.
We’ve worked hard over the past year to keep you informed, entertained
and even a little intrigued as we’ve covered the events and evolution
of programmable logic technology, tools, techniques and trends. This
week, we thought we’d review a few of the more interesting things
we’ve bumped into over the past twelve months and kick off year
number two with a bang.
According to the information that you, our readers,
have supplied, most of you are design engineers, engineering management,
or executives overseeing engineering development projects. Some of
you have been designing with programmable logic for years, and others
are just starting out in programmable logic from backgrounds as diverse
as embedded systems programming, digital signal processing, ASIC design,
and system-on-board design. While the majority of you are working electrical,
software, and systems engineering professionals, over 20% are either
educators or students, and just over 10% are “industry insiders” working
for programmable logic or EDA companies or distributors. About half
of you (just over 18,000) visit our site at least once a month, and
many visit almost every day. [more]
First Annual FPGA Journal Awards
We Tell You Your Favorites Over
the course of the first year, we’ve had a tremendous amount of feedback and
input from you, our readers. We’ve also done several formal surveys
and studies that have spanned the entire year, with follow-up e-mails
to many of you to clarify just what you meant by assertions like “…works
very reliably except when it fails.” Here, then, we are proud to
present back to you some of the things you told us - your favorite suppliers
and products in a variety of categories – in the form of awards.
The primary data for determining the winners came
from our online surveys of completed FPGA projects. Respondents were
those who had completed a real FPGA project within the past year, and
answers were tabulated based on responses related to those completed
projects. We asked you to rank the importance of a number of factors
in choosing your device, your tools, and the vendors that sold them
to you. We then asked you to rate how well your particular vendors
and products performed in each of those categories. We multiplied the
importance by the performance, averaged the responses for each vendor
and product, and – voila!
The scorecard for the First Annual FPGA Journal Awards was born. [more]
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