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April 2009



FPGA Verification

Tuesday, 28 April 2009 10:06 P GMT-06
I recently worked on an FPGA design for a video over USB application.  The design used very high resolution video and was fairly complicated.  Detailed simulation was definately the preferred method to implement and debug this design. 

Agilent J-Bert Measurement Equipment

Tuesday, 14 April 2009 9:52 P GMT-06
In the past I have written about a BERTScope from Synthesys Research .  This measurement equipment combines a bit-error-rate tester with precise voltage and timing sampling circuitry to allow the device to scan a received signal to measure the e

High Speed Multimedia Interfaces and ESD

Tuesday, 14 April 2009 9:21 P GMT-06
There was an article in the April 2009 issue of Conformity Magazine about input protection for high speed video type interfaces [1].  Video interface devices need to provide a lot of IO interfaces to external storage, networks, and video display

Fluorescent Light Bulb Experiment Part 14

Wednesday, 1 April 2009 6:25 A GMT-06
A 40W incandescent bulb burned out in my house today, so I replaced it with a 60W equivalent fluorescent with the following specs:Philips Energy Saver 60 Soft White A1914 W800 Lumens8000 hours life This bulb is circular on the outside and doesn&
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