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State of the Union – Addressed
Major Players Weigh in on FPGA
Moving Data with VME
by Bryon Moyer, FPGA Journal
Pumping up Premier
Synplicity Boosts Flagship Tool
Incremental Design Moves Towards Mainstream
by Bryon Moyer, FPGA Journal
Three “I”s of FPGA Design: Iterations, Incremental and Intelligent Design Tools
by Rakesh Jain, Mentor Graphics Corp.
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CHALK TALK Meeting The Challenges of FPGA Design With Synplify Premier - Join Amelia Dalton as she investigates several new design technologies that address the top challenges faced by FPGA designers today. (Synplicity)

CHALK TALK Accelerate SoC and ASIC Verification Using FPGA Prototypes - Join Amelia Dalton as she explores methods of ASIC verification available today and why FPGA-based prototypes offer the most affordable and most powerful solution. (Synplicity)

CHALK TALK Advancing SoC Verification Methods – Join Amelia Dalton as she talks with experts from Mentor Graphics on processor-driven test and other techniques for solving your system-on-chip verification problems.
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CHALK TALK Real World Solutions for FPGAs in Ultra Low Power Applications - Join Amelia Dalton as she examines the Low Power Reference Platform from Arrow, Altera, and Linear Technology - proving that FPGAs really can run on batteries. (Altera, Arrow, Linear)

Xilinx Virtex-5 Power Optimization & Power Design Guidelines (Xilinx)

Virtex-5 FPGAs and PlanAhead Deliver Maximum Performance (Xilinx)

Accelerate Delivery of Built-in Ethernet Solutions Using ilinx FPGAs and Gigabit Ethernet Development Kit (Xilinx)

Discover How to Design With and Take Advantage of the PCI Express Hard Block in the Virtex-5 FPGA (Xilinx)

Discover How the Complete Virtex-5 PCI Express Solution Reduces Risks for Your Application (Xilinx)

An Introduction to the Xilinx Virtex-5 FPGA Family (Xilinx)

State of the Union – Addressed
Major Players Weigh in on FPGA

Today, at DesignCon 2008 in Santa Clara, CA, a panel was amassed with executives from Altera, Mentor Graphics, Synplicity, and Xilinx.  In the world of FPGA design methodology, this is the equivalent of sitting down at a table with Coke, Pepsi, the Mac and PC guys, the Protestants, Catholics and Jews, the conservatives and liberals, scotch and bourbon, and both ketchup and mustard. 

Since I was moderating the panel, and we know how these things tend to go, we had a pre-meeting before the conference to get the preliminaries out of the way: [more]

Moving Data with VME
by Bryon Moyer, FPGA Journal

There was a time when they could fill a huge stadium. They were the headliners. They were the go-to guys. And they had a good run. But, as is typical, upstarts made a grab for the spotlight, winning the attention of an audience eager for shiny new things. But this didn’t deter them, and they didn’t stop moving forward. They didn’t retreat to controversy-free PBS reunion specials. They made sure their loyal followers got what they wanted, and they kept new things coming to keep them from getting bored and looking elsewhere. It’s just that the spotlight is a fickle thing, and it has been flitting all around like a Blair Witch cameraman with Parkinson's. [more]