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Implementing analog functions in rugged and rad-hard FPGAs - Story

June 01, 2012

Allan Chin Luciano Zoso Stellamar

All-digital chips such as FPGAs have traditionally not been able to house analog blocks like ADCs, clocking functions, or power converters. Now, aerospace engineers are pulling some of these analog functions onboard FPGAs to take advantage of rugged and radiation-hardened properties.

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