Posts by Mark Bingeman

CPLD Trends

By Mark Bingeman | Jul 3, 2024

Earlier this year AMD announced the discontinuation of a number of small FPGA device families as well as its only currently active CPLD device family, the CoolRunner II1. These devices are used fo...

Important Electronic Design Considerations for Data Acquisition Systems: Part 1 – Calibration

By Mark Bingeman | Sep 20, 2023

Over the past two decades Nuvation Engineering has developed data acquisition systems for a wide range devices and market applications. Based on our experience performing hundreds of engineering desig...

Low-Latency Networks for Control System Applications

By Mark Bingeman | Feb 25, 2020

In control system applications the efficient transfer of data from sensors to the processing system and from the processing system to the actuators and motors is often essential for optimal system fun...

HBM and FPGAs

By Mark Bingeman | Jul 22, 2019

Bandwidth Gap An emerging issue in the computing industry over the last several years is the bandwidth gap between the major communication interfaces (PCIe, Ethernet, USB, etc.), and the external m...

FPGAs and HMC Devices: What You Need to Know

By Mark Bingeman | Oct 25, 2017

You might have heard that FPGAs are well-suited to interface with HMC devices, but do you understand why? In this article we explain what an HMC is, what the advantages of using them are, and how FPGA...

Next Generation FPGAs Address Demands of the Zettabyte Era

By Mark Bingeman | May 23, 2017

Global IP traffic has been significantly increasing over the last few years and is anticipated to continue to increase into the future. Here are a few highlights from Cisco’s VNI June 2016 report.i...

4K Video Design Challenges and Solutions

By Mark Bingeman | Mar 13, 2014

Nuvation Engineering has completed a number of 4K video design projects for industries ranging from consumer electronics to defense and aerospace. Although the design requirements vary greatly, an FPG...

Creating a System Architecture for Electronic Product Designs

By Mark Bingeman | Sep 30, 2013

It is very important to have a solid architecture early in the design process for successful electronic product development and deployment. Architecture is by nature a multi-dimension problem. Several...

More Tips for Photographing Electronic Designs

By Mark Bingeman | Sep 3, 2013

In part 1 Principal Design Engineer Mark Bingeman shared some helpful tips for capturing a great picture of your electronic product design. Here is how you can improve the quality of your photo even f...

Taking Great Pictures of Electronic Designs

By Mark Bingeman | Aug 26, 2013

Once you’ve completed a circuit board or product design, you will often want to take pictures of it. Sometimes it’s for marketing material or documentation purposes, and other times you’re proud...