Finally here is a website where everything from PCB, CAD design, Operating system stacks, developer tools to Test and measurement has been covered. You get documentation, tool information, whitepaper and even IP. They are also selling open source hardware. Very useful for both students and designers

Its called Knode

Here is a short tutorial on reducing the design complexity in FPGA using system level integration tools. With Altera’s new Qsys tool, things are claimed to be easier.

Here is a useful yet fundamental tutorial on choosing the right analog to digital and digital to analog convertors for your design.

With the new Qsys system on Altera, its now easy to implement PCIe. Here is a brief tutorial. Needs login

Here is an interesting whitepaper for implementing Software radio systems on FPGA. Needs login.

Graphene, the new wonder for the electronics industry, is fast gaining advantages. Graphene arrays development techniques are being researched by people at Purdue University. Although its not ready for high volume production, its still a good step towards graphene based electronics. Read more here

National instruments has acquired EDA software provider, AWR corporation, for RF and related high frequency component. Read more on the details here

IMEC has created the first ever cheaper GaN on Silicon wafers. The technology is 200mm diameter and is going to help high production of wafers for CMOS devices with lower costs since it does not use Gold.

We all know how essential FFT’s have become in these decades and there have been many and many implementations done. Now there are C based FFT’s that can be used on FPGA’s It comes with test bench that evaluates the data. Here it an interesting article on a Radix 4(2x) FFT implementation.