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Bletchley Park's World War Two codebreakers in their own words
News The Colossus was the world's first programmable electronic computer and was built to crack the Lorenz code used to protect the German High Command's orders to the army's field marshals. The work of the Bletchley Park... [05 Nov 2009]
Photos: The Apple mouse through the ages
Photo The programmable button options were mighty useful as was the roller ball 'nipple' that allowed you to scroll vertically and horizontally. Apple's Lisa of the early 1980s was among the first computers to sport a mouse -... [03 Nov 2009]
Cisco IP Phone Features
White Paper Softkeys are programmable feature buttons that appear on the Cisco IP phone. Cisco IP Phone features are controlled via softkeys. While each feature is executed differently, each feature is initiated by the clicking of a... [01 Oct 2009]
Photos: Computer history goes under the hammer
Photo This is the Lyons Electronic Office - LEOII/3 electronic programmable storage computer which was first demonstrated in 1958. Just 13 of the Leo II devices were built and it was one of the first commercially sold... [29 Sep 2009]
CAFE: A Configurable PAcket Forwarding Engine for Data Center Networks
White Paper Although programmable forwarding devices are available, it is difficult to use them to prototype these DCN designs, especially when self-defined headers are introduced. Recently, Data Center Networking (DCN) has... [16 Sep 2009]
BEE3: Revitalizing Computer Architecture Research
White Paper By leveraging silicon technology scaling in Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs), hardware can be used to accelerate simulation, emulation, or prototyping of systems. In recent years, advances in computer architecture... [16 Sep 2009]
Photos: WWII codebreakers return to Bletchley Park
Photo The Colossus is one of the first ever programmable computers and can be seen up and running at Bletchley Park after a major restoration programme. During the Second World War these women pictured helped crack the codes... [07 Sep 2009]
Custom Industrial Controllers Outperform PLCs
White Paper Programmable Logic Controllers, PLCs, are used extensively for industrial control applications. PLCs provide the designer with general processor architecture, a general input / output architecture, a general mechanical... [05 Sep 2009]
HP LeftHand P4000 SANs Deliver Efficient New Storage-Management System for Factory Automation Leader Mitsubishi Electric Automation
White Paper Mitsubishi Electric Automation Inc.a U.S.subsidiary of Mitsubishi Electric Corporation of Japan, supplies factory automation products and solutions - including programmable logic controllers, variable-frequency drives,... [02 Sep 2009]
What is a Smart Card?
White Paper A smart card is a card that is embedded with either a microprocessor and a memory chip or only a memory chip with non-programmable logic. The microprocessor card can add, delete, and otherwise manipulate information on... [14 Aug 2009]
Exploiting Reconfigurable Hardware for Network Security
White Paper They are implementing IDS in FPGA-based (Field Programmable Gate Array) reconfigurable hardware. One type of network security strategy is using an Intrusion Detection System (IDS). This is to achieve higher speed and... [01 Jul 2009]
Salesforce.com has cloud in its Sites
News As well as building websites, customers can also use other Force.com functionality such as analytics, programmable logic and workflow. Businesses can now build and run their external websites using technology from... [15 Jun 2009]
Real-Time Isosurface Extraction Using the GPU Programmable Geometry Pipeline
White Paper Furthermore, with the advent of programmable GPU pipelines, they can take advantage of the massive parallelism of the GPUs, rather than relying on significantly slower scaling CPU multi-core architecture. [29 May 2009]
Competitive Programmable Logic Power Comparison
White Paper Today, many applications require low-power programmable logic solutions. For this reason, many programmable logic vendors have focused on minimizing device power consumption. In this paper, the power... [01 May 2009]
The Advantages of the 32-Bit Cortex-M1 Processor in Actel FPGAs
White Paper In combination, these trends are driving demand for 32-bit processors in programmable logic. As a result, when implemented in the coarse-grained architecture of FPGAs, the processors are often large and slow-a fate... [01 May 2009]
