Field-programmable device design

It pays to test -- Designers of FPGA logic report that expensive software isn’t necessarily more efficient than bargain-priced tools from the FPGA makers. (4/22/04)

ECAD reaches middle age -- The ACM and the IEEE sponsored the 40th electronic Design Automation Conference this month as the industry showed clear signs of maturity. We review the big themes driving the electronic CAD business in the next five years. (6/12/03)

Reasonably priced ECAD software -- While makers of IC design software get all the attention (and the money), producers of software for designing circuit boards and for programming FPGAs have been developing some nice, easy to use products.