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It doesn’t take a rocket scientist

February 21st, 2008 by Dave

It does not take a rocket scientist to use a RocketDrive!

I think the recent launch of the three-stage RIM-161 SM-3 missile that destroyed the bus sized spy satellite last evening required rocket scientists. I have trouble throwing a football to my boys and accurately leading them so the ball meets them in their route and I can’t imagine how difficult it must have been to accomplish this satellite busting task.

The team that shot down the satellite had to deal with an object the size of a yellow school bus (those of you with children may now have vivid memories of The Magic School Bus TV series where they often traveled into space in a magic bus), traveling at 17,000 MPH at 153 miles above the earth’s surface. No, it was not the Magic School Bus, it was indeed a satellite. It took some very smart people to execute the mission successfully. Thanks to go out to those rocket scientists that removed the risk of the 1,000 pounds of hazardous hydrazine that could have been raining down on an unsuspecting population.

Of course there is a thankless DeviceNative plug side to this story…

GateRocket’s product is called a RocketDrive and it does NOT require a rocket scientist to operate it. You just need to know a few parameters about your FPGA design and the tools automatically integrate it in-silicon and into your favorite simulator. It provides you with a fast and accurate verification solution with advanced debugging capabilities. The science is in the algorithms that make the product easy to use.

If your not a rocket scientist and need help verifying and debugging your FPGA, contact GateRocket and they will be happy to help you.

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The Natives will be Restless in 2008

December 29th, 2007 by Chris

One thing is for sure, FPGAs are not getting any smaller. The latest offerings from Xilinx and Altera have enough capacity to hold a Pentium processor - not a model or stripped down version, but the actual RTL for the Pentium. Obviously this is hard to show without the code for the Pentium, but my money says a modern FPGA version of the Pentium would run faster than the released devices at 60 mhz.

Think about the complexity that a design like that implies - development at Intel is no joke! By the time they released the Pentium, they had enough market and momentum to buy every design tool known to man. We’re talking about multi-million dollar emulation, simulation, modeling and prototyping systems. And the devices they released still had errata.

So now you’ve got the ability to develop one of these devices with an off the shelf PC, and software from the FPGA vendor. You can synthesize, place and route and program the device from your desktop with your new Pentium design. With all that capability, I’m looking for an explosion of opportunity in the development and debug space in 2008. online pharmacy without prescription buy silver buy detox buy italian charms download software online pharmacy no prescription canadian pharmacy download movies farmacia en linea internet drugstore movie download mexican pharmacy buy gift baskets buy levitra buy hoodia prescription drugs download movie buy dvd cheap auto insurance buy jewelry buy jewelry online cheap online pharmacy buy alcohol test download film download music download mp3 prescription drugs buy notebook battery download movies online pharmacy buy charms buy piercing piercing