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a techfocus media publication :: May 5, 2009 :: volume XXIII, no. 05











FROM THE EDITOR



This week, we had the honor and privilege of attending the induction ceremony for the National Inventors Hall of Fame (the "nation" in this case, being the US). This particular ceremony celebrated the 50th anniversary of the IC, and we were there to honor the induction of Ross Freeman, inventor of the FPGA (along with fourteen other inventors who shaped our industry). The impact of semiconductor technology on our society is enormous, and our role as engineers in creating that technology connects us directly to some of mankind's most impressive achievements. Our latest feature takes a look.

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CURRENT FEATURE ARTICLES



The Presence of Giants
2009 Inventors Hall of Fame Induction Tells a Story
(Kevin Morris)
Chef's Menu
Xilinx 11.1 Offers the Tools You Actually Need
(Kevin Morris)
Altium Goes for the Masses
Breaking the EDA Mold... Again
(Kevin Morris)
Preaching to the Choir
Proselytizing Programmable Logic
(Kevin Morris)
Incremental Synthesis: Achieving Shorter Design
Cycles Without Quality Trade-Offs
by Darren Zacher, Mentor Graphics
Kicking a Dead Horse
FPGAs Going the Distance Against ASIC
(Kevin Morris)



JOURNAL WEBCASTS

FPGAs Verifying FPGAs. Advanced FPGAs now require a more rigorous verification approach or designers risk spending months in the lab trying to debug their designs in-system. Learn how Device Native® verification integrates seamlessly with your existing FPGA design tools and delivers significant productivity improvements for verification and debug. (GateRocket)

CHALK TALK Confirma™: The Next Era Of Prototyping. Struggling with FPGA prototyping boards? Join Amelia Dalton as she talks with Juergen Jaeger of Synopsys about the Next Era of Rapid Prototyping. (Synopsys)

CHALK TALK From Desktop to Target: What You Need From A Development Suite. Is embedded software development and debug a challenge for your team? Join Amelia Dalton as she chats with Jit Sivalogan of Mentor Graphics about setting up a productive environment for embedded development. (Mentor Graphics)

CHALK TALK Simplified Verification of DSP Algorithms in Hardware. Moving algorithms from MATLAB to FPGAs? Join Amelia Dalton as she explores options for verifying DSP designs implemented in FPGAs with Tim Vanevenhoven from Xilinx. (Xilinx)

CHALK TALK Using Embedded Hypervisors in Mobile Devices. Join Amelia Dalton as she explores the use of embedded hypervisors to create safe and secure software for mobile devices with Rob McCammon of Open Kernel Labs. (Open Kernel Labs)

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The Presence of Giants
2009 Inventors Hall of Fame Induction Tells a Story (Kevin Morris)

American Football has the Super Bowl - but that just honors the best team for a single year. Baseball - the "world" series - but that only covers one country.  The Academy Awards - outstanding achievements in motion pictures worldwide, still just for a single year.  The Olympics honor the best of the best in a number of activities once every four years.  The America's Cup - up for grabs about every three* (*subject to legal review.) We, however, were gathered for something much bigger than all those put together, and it was all in celebration of achievement in engineering.  

The room wasn't all that large, given the grandeur of the assembly.  Three dozen or so circular dinner tables radiated out from the stage in the banquet hall at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, CA.  The occasion was auspicious enough - the 50th anniversary of the IC (and the 25th anniversary of the FPGA) and the 2009 induction ceremony for the National Inventors Hall of Fame.  In addition to the fifteen honorees (whose accomplishments we will discuss in a moment), some thirty former inductees were gathered to celebrate. [more]






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