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November 2024. Arar, S., "Guide to USB-C Pinout and Features", All about Circuits.
October 2024. It is interesting to compare the way we translate schematics into VHDL though CSD chapter 1 and 2 to what you can find in many other sources. For instance: e Understanding VHDL: Getting started from Digilent. For implementation and test phases they use Vivado EDA and AMD (Xilinx) target boards and FPGA's.
October 2024. Review the latest tecnologies browsing this EIU magazine from Mouser
October 2024: Webinar: "An Introduction to the AMD MicroBlaze�„� V Processor". AMD (Xilinx)
September 2024. Horan, C., "Safety in Sensing: Sensor Technology in Smart Cities", OMRON, All About Circuits.
September 2024. Nelkovski, K. "From VHDL Code to Real Hardware: Designing a Finite-State Machine", All about Circuits.
August 2024. Seminar "Common mistakes in VHDL" (ecording) by Dough Perry, Doulos.
July 2024. New versions of the Analog Discovery PRO 5000 Series. Model APD5250 is the VB-8012 in our Lab 129B. It works with both NI-VirtualBench and Waveforms software.
July 2024. The semiconductor industry is recruiting workers in a tight labor market as the competition for talent ramps up.
June 2024. Voyager 1 returning science data from all four instruments. It is more than 24 billion kilometers from Earth after 47 years of operation later this year. Voyager uplink communications is via S-band (16 b/s command rate) while an X-band transmitter provides downlink telemetry at 160 b/s and 1.4 kb/s.
May 2024. Microsoft, from Intel x86 to ARM chips for AI PC. Copilot+PC. AI accelerators or NPU chips.
May 2024. La missió principal de la Càtedra CHIP UPC és la formació i la captació de talent per reforçar les capacitats científiques, de disseny i de producció de la indústria de xips i semiconductors.
May 2024. A simple, click & drop solution for schematic symbols, PCB footprints and 3D models for millions of parts that's FREE to all engineers to use. It also integrates on install into all major ECAD tools. Library Loader application. Mouser.
April 2024. Long, H., Ryssdal, K., Hollenhorst, M., "The biggest problem for America�€™s chips boom? The workers ", The Washington Post, 04/30/2024
April 2024. Making a structured VHDL testbench. A demo for beginners. Aldec.
April 2024. Essential Digital Design Techniques Online, Doulos. This is a sample of courses on EDA tools and procedures that you can browse to compare to what we do in our introductory CSD course.
March 2024. Eric Cheung, E., Ripley, W., Mees, J., "Everyone wants the latest chips. That�€™s causing a huge headache for the world�€™s biggest supplier TSMC", CNN. The news presents the company's Newcomer Training Center (NTC).
March 2024. Hertz, J., "Intel Clocks �€˜World�€™s Fastest Desktop Processor�€™ at 6.2 GHz Frequency", All about circuits magazine.
March 2024. How much VHDL training you need? From Doulos courses on digital techniques and technologies.
February 2024. Christoffersen, J., Switch bounce and how to deal with it, All about circuits magazine. We will tackle this problem in P6 as a FSM circuit debouncer.
February 2024. Adafruit's founder Limor Fried presenting her big idea on how they do engineering in New York.
January 2024. A newspaper article on valued cross-curricular skills, ON Economia.
January 2024. Doulos seminar: Signal integrity, PCB vias and remedies.
December 2023. Future Road Lab (Abertis): "Autopistas crea un laboratori de solucions innovadores i sostenibles", Avui.
December 2023: After three month solving projects in our CSD introductory course, it is a good time to see how professional training on digital design techniques and VHDL is organised and offered. Doulos.
November 2023. New master studies on microelectronic design at the UPC.
November 2023. A new whitepaper in connectivity from Renesas: Aras, M., Renesas, "Simplifying the connected future: navigating complexity in the IoT landscape with Renesas wireless connectivity ".
November 2023. SensorTile.box PRO with multi-sensors and wireless connectivity for any intelligent IoT node. ST.
October 2023. Nelkovski, K., "From VHDL Code to Real Hardware: Designing an 8-bit ALU", All About Circuits project.
October 2023. National Instruments (NI) is acquired by Emerson
September 2023. Report. La UPC i els semiconductors.
August 2023. Webinar: Enhancing the Simulation Testbench for VHDL-based FPGA Designs (Part III: Advanced Testbench for a Complex DUT (EU). Aldec. Open Source VHDL Verification Methodology (OSVVM).
August 2023. Webinar. How to improve embedded software using state machines, (slides) Wilk, M. Doulos.
July 2023. News: Atop Two Hawaiian Mountains, NIST Proves Ultra-Precise Timing Solution, Nelkovski, K., All About Circuits,
July 2023. Webinar: C/C++ memory management. Design and debugging. Doulos. (slides)
July 2023. Webinar: How ST automotive amplifiers can improve audio quality and efficiency for in-car applications, ST semiconductors.
July 2023. Webinar: Achieve precise time-keeping with Maxim's tiniest nano-power and shockproof RTC. Analog - Devices
July 2023. Webinar: Optimising Sensing Applications with PIC and AVR MCUs. Microchip.
June 2023. The role of sensors in autonomous robots. Mouser Electronics
June 2023. News: The next 2nm technology (source: the Hankyoreh newspaper).
June 2023. Webinar: Enhancing the Simulation Testbench for VHDL-based FPGA Designs (Part II). Aldec.
May 2023. Develop your IoT solution quickly with the XENSIV connected sensor kit. Infineon.
May 2023. Mouser, Microchip. Why use Microchip MCUs for design development? Read the eBook.
April 2023. Aldec seminar on VHDL testbenches: Part 1: Basic Testbench for a Simple DUT
March 2023. Infineon. Application brief: Wrist-worn wearable devices. Overcome design challenges with Infineon�€™s excellent RF, sensor, connectivity, power, memory, and security solutions.
March 2023. Subscribe the Intel FPGA academic newsletter: the LabsLand concept, FPGA Academy, Quartus Prime tutorials, introductory lab design examples and the DE10-Lite board.
March 2023. Texas Instruments Precision labs. Learning tutorials for electronic cricuits and devices. For instance, this video on an introduction to isolation.
March 2023. TRACO Power webinar. How to power your medical applications. (The recording is available at our GD shared folder).
February 2023. Qorvo, Mouser Electronics. Ebook: Powering up your design
February 2023. The No-Code Paradigm Shift in Product Firmware Development. Renesas.
January 2023. STM32C0 MCUs: the extra boost to cost-sensitive 8-bit applications. (webinar presentation)
January 2023. News. Crime and circuit boards. How Russia works around sanctions to procure microchips for missiles. The Insider, is a Russia-focused, independent media outlet.
January 2023. Interesting video from WSJ on chip manufacturing; "U.S. vs. China: The Race to Develop the Most Advanced Chips"
December 2022. Doulos, Renesas: Getting Started with Embedded System and Software Design. Many concepts in this 45 minutes webinar will make sense for you. Link for watching it.
December 2022. After having studied our introductory CSD course if you wish you can continue your training in digital design opting for specialised courses such these ones from AMD/Xilinx.
December 2022. Excellent news: Catalunya pren embranzida per figurar a la indústria mundial de semiconductors
December 2022. What if the most powerfull thing in the world was a question? Analog Devices.
December 2022. Webinar �€“ How to Easily Develop Cellular IoT Applications
November 2022. BittWare Webinar: High performance computing with Next-Generation Intel Agilex FPGA. Webinar recording is available at our GD - CSD shared storage system.
November 2022. How to accelerate both your FPGA application and productivity. By utilizing modern co-synthesis methodologies, system-level software can be made to run as customized hardware modules within an FPGA-based hardware kernel, running seamlessly with the rest of the application software on heterogeneous processors integrated utilizing the Xilinx Vitis Unified Software Development environment.
July 2022. Discover and participate in DOULOS online courses on VHDL: Writing Structured Testbenches in VHDL. related to our 4th and 5th design steps for verifying that the circuit works functionally and also at the gate-level. Other online courses on VHDL from the same company. View this recording (name and email address is required). This video presents how DOULOS company has organised its training in VHDL.
June/July 2022. Keysight University courses. Browse them and connect content with subjects you have been styding.
June 2022. "Accuracy, Precision, Resolution, and Sensitivity: What Do They Mean? , Digilent blog on data acquisition.
May 2022. Doulos - Renesas webinar on How to Improve Embedded Software Using State Machines. View this recording (name and email address is required).
April 2022. Creating an Eye Diagram in WaveForms using Digilent Discovery compact USB instruments
March 2022. Raspberry Pi, the tiny British computer turns 10. A video from Finaltial Times. The Raspberry Pi promised to bring computing skills to children, but instead became the go-to machine for hobbyists and tech projects. With an IPO planned early this year, we visit the founders to tell the story of Pi, and ask: is it really a success?
February 2022. Now that we start a new CSD edition, it is a good time for browsing online resources such Intel Academy on FGPAs. Compare lab introductory assigments to the projects that we propose you to design.
January 2022. SpringerLink electronic books at the UPC library. For instance, searching simply: "Springer, VHDL", you will obtain a list of electronic books on chapters 1 and 2 content, so that you can download and read some of them and compare to how we are learning VHDL in CSD.
November 2021. This is a convenient board for experimentation at your introductory level: Boolean Board populated with a Xilinx Spartan-7 FPGA. And this is the first lesson on the introductory course Real Digital are proposing. Please, read it, I cannot expres myself clearer and better!
October 2021. This is the documentary "George Boole, génie des maths" that I told you today in class, about the life and creativity of George Boole. ARTE.TV is an fascinating TV broadcasting station from France/Germany since 1992, "La Chaîne publique culturelle et européenne". I hope you enjoy it, is a perfect way to finish our Chapter 1 on combinational (Boole) circuits and to place our content in historical context.
October 2021. Brouse and read some Intel® Teaching Materials such as courses and tutorials on digital logic. Compare and discuss this content with for instance what you are learning in CSD.
June 2021. Intel® Quartus® Prime Design Software for FPGA Development. Ask an expert. Text.
November 2020. Beginner's Guide: Learning FPGA. Xilinx chip XC7Z010-1CLG400C
October 2020. AMD to Acquire Xilinx. Xilinx-AMD News: XLNX Stock Flies on $35 Billion AMD Deal
October 2020. Using Portable Instrumentation to Accelerate Digital Design
September 2020. Simplifying the Creation of Stunning GUIs on STM32 MCUs and MPUs
June 2020. Lattice Propel webinar and video on the product.
June 2020. Deeper, Faster Learning with FPGA Co-Processors.
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June 2020. Ultra-low power MCUs - what makes STM32L5 MCUs special
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April 2020. Accelerating COVID-19 Prevention and Treatment: Genomic Analysis with Genetalks and Xilinx FPGAs.
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April 2020. STM32MP1 MPU and DH electronics' SOM product family.
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March, 2020. Six Reasons You Should Consider FPGAs Over ASICs or CPU/GPUs.
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January, 2020. T-Core kit from Terasic (Intel MAX®10 FPGA)
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December, 2019. Examples of typical job opportunities: hardware, digital systems, IoT, sensors, etc.
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December, 2019. SensorTile.box wireless IoT and wearable sensor development kit. Seminar.
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November, 2019. "Handwritten Digit Recognition Using Artificial Intelligence on a Low-Cost FPGA Board". A technical article from the Digilent Blog where many examples and applications involving FPGA chips can be found.
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March, 2019. National Instruments. How do we rapidly close the gap between introducing engineering concepts, to students applying skills for complex authentic projects? In this four-part Engineering Education Webinar Series gain insight from educators and the industry leaders that hire students like yours. Learn how we can work together to increase engagement, improve impact, and emphasize skills for employment, while reducing the time it takes you to implement new teaching materials.
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2019. Intel. InnovateFPGA Design Highlight
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EDN is an electronics community for engineers, by engineers, with the information, tools, courses, and professional connections you need to get your job done and get your ideas from concept to reality as quickly as possible. |
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Academic Earth. Lectures on electrical engineering |
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MIT electrical engineering and coputer science. This an example course (1), (2): Introductory Digital Systems Laboratory. |
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