Making things easy

Yet again, Altera make it easy (and cheap – $49!) for people to [play](http://www.altera.com/b/bemicro-sdk.html?WT.mc_id=nm_so_tw_xx_tx_t_371) with their tools:

Altera dev boardAltera’s USB development board

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FPGAs and floating point

Altera’s newest DSP block is quite clearly designed to deal with [double-precision](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double_precision_floating-point_format) floating-point numbers from the start. They are betting (quite rightly IMHO) that the future is going to move away from pure fixed-point implementations.

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