FROM THE EDITOR
This week, we’re back from Embedded Systems
Conference (ESC) in San Francisco, and are happy to present our
review. For some reason, the tradeshow gods decided to put ESC the
same week as DATE in Europe this year. This was obviously a strain
for many exhibitors who were caught trying to maintain a presence in
simultaneous trade shows on different continents. ESC reportedly
grew in attendance from last year, and is arguably one of the best
events for tracking the latest innovations in digital electronics
and embedded software.
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CURRENT FEATURE
ARTICLES
Deeply
Embedded
ESC 2005 - the FPGA View
Two
Bucks
Xilinx Introduces Spartan-3E
Plug
and Play Design Methodologies for FPGA-based Signal
Processing
by Narinder Lall, Xilinx, Inc. and
Eric Cigan, AccelChip, Inc.
Lattice
Launches XP
Non-Volatility at the
Forefront of FPGA
High-Density
FPGA-to-ASIC Conversions using Structured ASIC: Fills the Gap
by Rick Mosher and Bob Kirk, AMI Semiconductor,
Inc.
Breakthrough
Bandwidth
SerDes Hits New
Heights
Making
the Jump to 10G
by Abhijit Athavale and Brian
Seemann, Xilinx, Inc.
Co-Verification
Methodology for Platform FPGAs
by
Milan Saini, Xilinx, Inc.
and Ross Nelson, Mentor
Graphics
Simulator
Savvy
Getting the Most
From Your HDL
The
Impact of Timing Exceptions on FPGA Performance
by James Henson, FishTail
Design Automation Inc.
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Deeply Embedded
ESC 2005 -
the FPGA View
Last year we pointed out that the embedded systems
conference (ESC) was being quietly taken over by FPGAs. Booth after booth
on the tradeshow floor boasted boards with programmable logic devices
prominently displayed. The trend continued this year with even more
programmable presence amidst a host of announcements bringing FPGAs more
to the center of the embedded systems stage and, conversely, embedded
applications to the forefront of the FPGA world.
All of the FPGA vendors had a presence this year, and
booths were bustling with activity. FPGA Journal was on-hand to take in
all the action, distill it down, and distribute it back to you in the form
of insightful answers to your burning questions. We've asked the questions
for you (we are a full-service publication) and given our best responses
based on information we gathered at the event. We’ve also awarded
"coolest" and "most interesting" titles to several items based strictly
and arbitrarily on our personal opinion.
Question 1 – Who had the coolest booth?
Our coolest booth award goes to Wind River. In fact, their
ESC booth wins the award for the coolest booth we've seen in the past two
years of trade shows. Parked preemptively in front of the main entrance,
Wind River's cubic monolith towers to an altitude that would only fit in
the highest section of the exhibit hall. Gigantic sculptured letters "D S
O" (for Device Software Optimization) line the right side of the booth
(pointed strategically toward the Microsoft booth). Inside each letter are
"embedded" video presentations which are viewed by looking through small
ports on the side. The theme, reminiscent of "Fight Club" emphasized the
anarchist origins of the open source movement. Wind River wants to make
the point that they are now the open source, multi-OS, standards-based
company. [more]
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