Xilinx Xcell Journal Article: Amazing MIT FPGA Projects & BSV

The latest Xilinx Xcell Journal has a great article on MIT's 6.375 digital design course. The students, who only had rudimentary hardware design experience at most and had never seen BSV before the class, build truly amazing projects in only 6 weeks -- after only 2.5 months of class. Read more and get the article here.

The unnamed tool behind Mentor’s optimizing power white paper

I recently wrote a blog post at Bluespec's website about a Mentor white paper and article on optimizing power. We were a little surprised to see some very familiar quality of results in a table that they used for both pieces.