Welcome to Issue 65 of Xcell Journal--the first issue from veteran EE trade journalist Mike Santarini, Xcell’s new Publisher.
Redesigned with a focus on the Xilinx user, Xcell Journal now features cover stories examining high-level challenges of hot application areas, regularly appearing application features and how-to features. It even includes news, product write-ups and customer profiles.
In this particular issue, Mike Santarini interviews several industry analysts and Xilinx technologists on the emerging multimode base station market for 4G wireless networks and beyond.
Issue 65 also includes some great features. For example, in our new Xcellence in Automotive & ISM section, a professor and grad student from the University of Hawaii show how they used Xilinx DSP tool System Generator for a next generation electrocardiogram design. In Xcellence in Aerospace and Defense, Xilinx experts introduce the new Virtex-4QV space-grade FPGA and a methodology to help you further fortify your designs from radiation-induced errors.
In the Xcellence in New Applications section Peter Alfke pays for what must have been a rough “business trip” to Switzerland and France and teams up with Professor Volker Lindenstruth of the University Heidelberg (Germany) to describe how CERN scientists are using Xilinx FPGAs in the world’s most advanced particle collider to study the Big Bang. In the new Xperiment section, which highlights unique and even quirky designs, designer In Choi describes a project in which he replaces a part in a 1980’s Vectrex Video game system to prove out an obsolete part replacement methodology. Also, don’t miss our new section Ask FAE-X, where in each issue, one of our FAE’s will assume the identity of FAE-X and answer a user question. In this issue, FAE Chris Dunlap, will step through his method for identifying and solving timing problems in Xilinx FPGAs.
I hope you enjoy this issue.
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IN THIS ISSUE
Viewpoints
- Letter from the New Publisher
Mike Santarini, Publisher, Xcell Publications: XCell To New Heights
Xcell’s new publisher joined Xilinx in March of this year after working 13 years as an editor covering
the EDA, FPGA, ASIC, IP, and memory industries.
- Xpert Opinion
Richard Wawrzyniak, Senior Market Analyst, ASIC and SOC, Semico Research Corp.
What Role Will FPGA's Play In The Picocell Base Station Market?
- Xpectations
Vin Ratford, Sr. Vice President, Xilinx Solutions Development Group, Xilinx, Inc.
"Persona-Based Design: Tailing Our Flow To Your Needs".
Feature Articles
Resources
