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Choosing a microcontroller and other design decisions - Part 2
This three-part article is abstracted from the book "Embedded Hardware Know It All", which provides a "360 degree" view from best-selling authors.

• Choosing a microcontroller and other design decisions - Part 1

• Evolving passive optical networks (PONs) demand FPGA design flexibility

• Multirate DSP, Part 2: Noninteger sampling factors

• How to raise the RTL abstraction level and design conciseness with SystemVerilog - Part 1

• FPGA-Based Prototyping - "Productivity to Burn"

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• Plug & Play Signal Integrity in Altera's Stratix II GX FPGAs
  Video Tutorial  4 min.
• Design Low Cost - Low Power Wireless Systems With Cyclone III FPGAs
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• Design Video and Image Processing Systems with Low Cost Cyclone III FPGAs
  Educast  10 min.
• Develop a Display System Using Low-Cost Cyclone III FPGAs
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• FPGA Synthesis of Custom DSP Blocks Using Distributed Arithmetic
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• 1-D Wavelet Transform On FPGA
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• Embedded System Based on CAN Bus
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Product Center

Latest Product Articles

• Microchip's serial EEPROMs support 10 to 100kHz in 3-pin SOT-23
• Altera's Stratix III FPGAs support SGMII on LVDS I/Os
• Latest FPGA design tools from Lattice extend performance and productivity
• Asynchronous DSPs: Low power, high performance
• A simple, cost-effective solution to protect FPGA designs
• Mezzanine card design makes FPGA integration easy

Under the Hood

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• Under the Hood: Cordless phone's next phase
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Reference Designs

• Broadcom and Avago Technologies Announce Advanced Features and New Price Points to Drive Bluetooth® Laser Mouse Products
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Technical Paper Library

Latest Technical Papers

• Competitive Programmable Logic Power Comparison
• The Many Flavors of Low-Power, Low-Cost FPGAs
• Single Chip Coherent Multiprocessing
• Preserving Freedom of Choice When Designing FPGAs
• Achieving Quality and Traceability in FPGA/ASIC Flows for DO-254 Aviation Projects
• Accelerating Video Development on FPGAs Using the Xilinx XtremeDSP Video Starter Kit
• Using FPGA-Based Channel Bonding for HDTV over DSL

Featured Technical Papers

• FPOAs Meet the Challenges of H.264 Encoding of High Definition Video
  MathStar
• Using FPGA-Based Channel Bonding for HDTV over DSL
  Altera
• Security Solutions Using Spartan-3 Generation FPGAs
  Xilinx

Webinars

Latest Webinars

• Implementing a Discrete Wavelet Transform on the ArrixTM, FPOATM
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• Logic Designers: Recapture control to achieve predictable closure on your project goals
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• FPGA Design Efficiency with Synthesis for ispLEVER
  Lattice Semiconductor
• Xilinx Virtex-5 Power Optimization & Power Design Guidelines
  Linear Technology, Nu Horizons, Xilinx
• Implementing Flexible Industrial Ethernet Solutions
  Altera
• Implementing the High Profiles of MPEG-2 & MPEG-4/ H.264 on an FPOA Architecture
  MathStar