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Happy Birthday!
FPGA Journal Turns 4
Four years, more than 200 weekly newsletters, hundreds of product announcements, briefings, interviews, conferences, and trade shows – for a four-year-old, FPGA Journal has really been around the block. When we launched this publication in 2003, we had high hopes for a bright future for our innovative approach to technology journalism. We had no idea, however, how well things would go. In short order we had written our own book – and dispensed with all the paper -- on delivering interesting high-quality technical content to an audience of engineers.
Apparently, most of you agreed, because our audience has grown to over 60,000 worldwide (if you visit at least once per month, you count) in over 90 countries. We’ve kept our focus on providing you as electronic designers with content that is interesting, relevant, and fun to read. You’ve responded with your patronage, your support, and your comments, and for all of those things we are immensely grateful. Year four has been an awesome one for us.
Editorially, we charted the rapid migration of FPGAs into the automobile, where telematics engineers are discovering new ways to harness the power and flexibility of programmable logic in an engineering environment historically known for its laggardly adoption of new technologies. We mourned as Dataquest ceased covering the design automation industry, and we apparently gave a lot of you nightmares with our fictional foray into a haunted semiconductor fab line.
We talked about solving signal integrity issues as SerDes moved from novelty to leading-edge technology and then into mainstream standards like PCI Express, and we explained the role of programmable logic in bridging the transition from parallel connectivity to high-speed serial interfaces. We also looked at emerging killer-apps for FPGAs such as DSP acceleration and software-defined radio. We also took apart some new supercomputer architectures and found FPGAs doing the heavy lifting as FPGA-based reconfigurable computing quietly continues its march from academic discussion to real-world practicality. [more]
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