With the rising complexity of silicon and software design, it has become critical for component vendors to supply more information than just a data sheet to get engineers started on their designs.

Reference designs are circuit diagrams that appear on a datasheet, usually near the beginning. But where do they come from? This seemingly simple question has led to a number of interesting ...

LAS VEGAS, April 16, 2007 – At the National Association of Broadcasters (NAB) Conference today, Xilinx, Inc. (NASDAQ:XLNX), the world’s leading programmable logic supplier, introduced a suite of ...