Welcome to Altera’s symposium on electronic system design. With these articles, we hope to bring you the latest thinking on the key challenges in the real world: defining system requirements, making architectural decisions, planning for implementation and—especially—verification, and estimating and measuring system performance. We will also offer you occasional reporting on industry events. We intend to cover a wide range of applications, system architectures, and implementation strategies, not limited to FPGA-based approaches or to the views of a particular set of vendors. That means we need your suggestions and article ideas. So if you’d like to browse, read an article in depth, comment, or write an article yourself for the symposium, please feel welcome. Thanks for your time!
Automotive Electronic Systems—a View of the Future
Automotive Electronic Systems—a View of the Future...more
Cutting Through the Fog—The Road Ahead for Vehicular Radar
Cutting Through the Fog—The Road Ahead for Vehicular Radar...more
3D ICs and System Design
The introduction of 3D IC technology into electronic systems will bring major benefits, but it promises to be a slow, difficult process that will eventually cause major changes to system design....more
Security for Embedded Systems: Today’s Issue, Not Tomorrow’s
In his DesignWest keynote, Mocana senior analyst Robert Vamosi enthralled his audience with tales of bold attacks, grave threats, lame responses, and hope for the future. His subject? The conflict between hackers and embedded-system developers....more
Provisioning Analog I/O in Configurable Systems
The evolution of embedded systems has taken a new direction with the appearance of what we, at Missing Link Electronics, are calling Smart Products. This term borrows meaning from the recently-coined word Smartphone...more
FPGAs in 2032: The ACM FPGA 2012 Workshop
The Association for Computing Machinery 20th International Symposium on FPGAs began this year with a workshop on the imponderable: what FPGAs would be like in 20 years....more
Processing Options For Implementing Vision Capabilities in Embedded Systems
With the emergence of increasingly capable processors, image sensors, memories and other semiconductor devices, along with associated algorithms, it's becoming practical to incorporate computer vision capabilities into a wide range of embedded system...more
The Challenges are Changing for System Design
As process technology pushes forward from 40 to 28 nm, unavoidable scaling effects are changing the electrical characteristics of the basic elements—the transistors and interconnect wires—with which chip designers must work...more
