FPGAs considered ARM-full
Xilinx and Altera have both announced FPGAs with hard ARM processors on them. Xilinx have even got a new product famliy name (Zynq) for them. The products are potential game-changers in some applications. The combination …
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Me: One, Tiny pieces of plastic: Nil
For want of a better place to log how to get at the dishwasher pump next time it gets stuck with a tiny piece of plastic blocking the impeller, I’m sticking it here. In case it helps anyone else it’s a Bosch …
EEWeb electronic design site
I recently became aware of the EEWeb electronic design site (as one of their reps emailed me to see if I’d like my site to appear on their front page… we’ll see if my server can handle that!) …
libv has a home
Some of my “useful bits” of library code have lived in libv.vhd for a while - I’ve split it off and licensed it with a CC0 license (which means the author disclaims copyright and offers no warranty). …
Should VHDL be extended to allow the use of Unicode
I’m contributing to the VASG group which is working on coming up with what the next revision of VHDL should be able to do. On today’s conference call, the idea was mooted that VHDL could allow the use of …