Comment hardware!! (Score 1) 227
no love for hardware developers ? :(
Comment Good books (Score 1) 88
pong chu books are REALLY good.
(Hardware design, VHDL/Verilog and SoC)
Comment Real World Example (Score 2) 205
Hello guys i work with VHDL and C for a while (small company gotta do the SW and the HW)
We are developing a product (embedded system) and some calculus were taking too much time doing it on software, so instead using a C program to do this calculus now we are using hardware.
I developed a VHDL module responsible for doing FFT calculus that is an order of magnitude faster than the software equivalent plus it is real time by default (since it's hardware)
Now we have a SoC with a FFT hardware attached to the CPU
Comment again? (Score 1) 427
seriously is the 3rd time i see a similar article in less then 2 months
n0t againnn we all know our kids must be assembly experts
Comment Even faster (Score 1) 408
Imagine if the calculus were processed in a FPGA, it would be another magnitude faster :P
Comment How to subscribe? (Score 1) 161
Hey i tried to subscribe but i didnt recieve any confirmation e-mail or anything.. just filled my name & e-mail on their website
Submission + - Mint 12: Just what the doctor ordered (extremetech.com)
MrSeb writes: "If you've been following Linux news lately, you know that on November 14, Mint 12 RC1 was released. This isn't the final version (which is due at the end of November), but it's unlikely that anything significant will change in the next couple of weeks. The most important aspect of Mint 12 is that it includes GNOME 3.2 as opposed to Unity Desktop, which is used by Ubuntu 11.10, the Linux distribution that Mint 12 is based on. Instead of just shipping with GNOME 3.2, though, it also includes MGSE (Mint GNOME Shell Extensions), allowing for users to create a GNOME 2-like environment. This change was brought on for a couple reasons; GNOME 3 is considered slow, buggy and non-intuitive by many users and Unity's popularity is not much better. In this fashion it seems Mint is looking to please everyone; Ubuntu deserters, GNOME 3 haters and old school GNOME 2 power users. As a whole, Mint 12 doesn't feel very different than version 11 — the addition of GNOME 3 and MGSE is, of course, large, but overall the feeling is that RC1 is intended to sit out there directly against Ubuntu 11.10 and Unity, waving the flag of complete customization. In this regard it'll make both Mint 11 and disgruntled Ubuntu users alike happy."
