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A month ago I stumbled upon Plunify, a startup that gives a fresh twist to EDA. Founded by HarnHua Ng and Kirvy Teo and established in Singapore, Plunify provides online access to various FPGA synthesis tools in the cloud. Through a slick web 2.0 interface, the user submits its design, which is then synthesized for [...] [...] Continue reading Plunify, a glimpse at EDA in the cloud Systems on Chip (SoCs) integrate increasingly complex hardware features with even more complex software applications, which makes validating SoCs a challenging task. FPGA-based prototyping has become an increasingly popular way of validating SoCs, for good reasons: FPGA devices have enough capacity to fit complex ASICs, and run fast enough to interact with real world interface [...] [...] Continue reading Meet InPA, a newcomer in FPGA-based prototyping It’s official: Tier Logic will cease to be in business on Friday July 16, 2010. The company has been trying to close its second round of funding, but it became clear last week that no short-term funding from a new VC would come, despite some due diligence by two lead investors. Since Tier Logic’s existing [...] [...] Continue reading RIP Tier Logic The past two weeks were pretty interesting if you follow FPGAs. Yes, Xilinx and Altera kept upping their target to Wall St., but that is not where the excitement came from. It came from the recent announcements of two startups, both created in 2003 and heavily funded. Tabula released its long-awaited device, which goes by [...] [...] Continue reading Can Tabula and Tier Logic be successful? The FPGA market has been entrenched in a duopoly for a number of years now. In 2008, according to Gartner Inc., Xilinx Inc. and Altera Corp. hold together 87% of the market of programmable logic (51.2% and 35.5% respectively). The rest of the market is covered mostly by Actel Corp. and Lattice Semiconductor Corp., about [...] [...] Continue reading Why FPGA startups keep failing |
 
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