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Hardware goes soft.

Presents information on the use of "specialist chips" in computer systems. Information that specialist chips are designed to do their particular jobs extremely fast, but they are inflexible in comparison with a microprocessor which does its best to be jack-of-all-trades; Report that the first-ever h...

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Published in:Economist Vol. 351; no. 8120; pp. 89 - 91
Format: Article
Published: Economist Newspaper Limited 5/22/1999
Subjects:
Integrated circuits
Microprocessors
Computer systems
Field programmable gate arrays
Gate array circuits
Xilinx Inc.
Online Access:View this record in EBSCOhost