The Message of Nuremberg

It might be presumptuous to think that a trade show can send a message, but it is hard to resist hearing one sometimes. Here in this charming city, which has been a center of trade and craftsmanship since the Middle Ages, the home of artist Albrecht Dürer, the ceremonial center of the Holy Roman Empire, the place where the world’s first pocket watch was handcrafted, where Germany’s first railroad was built in 1835, one does get a sense of the continuity of commerce and enterprise and pride in workmanship and quality. That sense has continued to this day with Nuremberg being the center of a wide variety of trade fairs, ranging from the world’s largest toy fair to the present Embedded World show, which has become the largest and most important embedded systems event in the world.

PMC I/O Modules Simplify the Use of Reconfigurable FPGAs for High-Performance Logic Applications

New PMC I/O modules provide a Virtex-5 FPGA for fast processing of custom logic routines supported by large banks of high-speed memory, a high-throughput PCI-X interface and plug-in I/O. The PMC-VLX series of modules from Acromag features a logic-optimized Xilinx Virtex-5 FPGA that is reconfigurable for high-performance I/O processing and custom logic routines. An assortment of plug-in I/O extension modules offers flexibility to interface various analog and digital I/O signal types. By wrapping the FPGA with just the features needed for fast and easy implementation, the PMC-VLX puts ultra-high-performance FPGA-controlled computing within reach of many applications.

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Mining the Web for Interesting Industry Info

Finding information on the World Wide Web can sometimes be reminiscent of looking for books on a certain subject in a large university library. All the books are cataloged according to subject via the Library of Congress system and you start looking in either the old-fashioned card catalog or the computerized catalog. That’s the easy part. My downfall always comes when I head off into the stacks to try to grab the book or books—so many distractions along the way. Inevitably something completely unrelated catches the eye and there I am—leafing through some fascinating volume miles from the topic of the impending report or term paper.