Moore’s Law makes FPGAs a viable alternative for digital. Last time around, we showed that if you scale an FPGA design down to deep submicron (DSM) process nodes, an FPGA can become performance and ...

False-colour scanning electron microscopy image of a programmable nanowire nanoprocessor super-imposed on a schematic nanoprocessor circuit architecture. Photo courtesy of Charles M. Lieber. Engineers ...

HILLSBORO, OR —Traditional approaches for extracting computational power from silicon are insufficient for meeting the requirements of machine-vision, professional-video, medical-imaging, ...

Yesterday morning I ran across what sounded like an interesting story from Hewlett-Packard’s labs that seemed to involve a possible transistor replacement, nanotechnology, and the indefinite ...

This file type includes high-resolution graphics and schematics when applicable. The first FPGA was invented by Ross Freeman (cofounder of Xilinx) in 1985 and since then their logic capacity has ...

The rapid evolution of electronic system design has underscored the importance of Field Programmable Analog Arrays (FPAAs) and mixed‐signal systems in achieving flexible, energy‐efficient processing.

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How do the various field-programmable gate-array (FPGA) technologies rank with respect to standby power consumption? The three mainstream FPGA approaches significantly vary in static and standby power ...

As transistor technology continues its march forward with smaller, faster components, we're getting ever closer to the point at which the realities of atomic scale will put an end to Moore's law-- ...

Multilayers of the two-dimensional material hexagonal boron nitride (h-BN) can be employed as the resistive switching material in high-density memristive crossbar arrays, creating devices that can be ...

For large amounts of on-chip code and data, mask read-only memory (ROM) provides an inexpensive and easily programmed storage mechanism. However, the inability to configure ROM after wafer processing ...