A coup d’état is imminent. A mobile revolution. With “Modular!” banners held high and money where their mouths are, Google is marching through the streets determined to overthrow the status quo in smartphone technology. This week’s Fish Fry is all about Google’s Project Ara – why it’s cool, why you should care about this modular smartphone technology, and how you can get started designing your OWN modules. My guests are Ara Knaian (NK Labs) and David Rutledge (CTO – Lattice Semiconductor) and we are going to talk about what’s inside the Google Ara phone, the important role of FPGAs, and why Ara lent his name to this super cool new project. Also this week, we take a tour of Xilinx’s Vivado IDE and break the biggest news to hit the EE airwaves.
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Links for April 25, 2014
News – Cadence to Expand Verification Solution with Acquisition of Jasper Design Automation
News – Altera Changes the Game for Floating Point DSP in FPGAs
More information about Project Ara
EE Journal’s NEW Video Blog – On The Scene: Project Ara
Video featuring Ara Knaian – (Tiny) Reconfigurable Robots at MIT
New Episode of Chalk Talk: Vivado Design Suite – Integrated Design Environment
