Adam Taylor – författare

This practical resource introduces readers to the design of field programmable gate array systems (FPGAs). Techniques and principles that can be applied by the engineer to understand challenges before starting a project are presented. The book provides a framework from which to work and approach development of embedded systems that will give readers a better understanding of the issues at hand and can develop solution which presents lower technical and programmatic risk and a faster time to market. Programmatic and system considerations are introduced, providing an overview of the engineering life cycle when developing an electronic solution from concept to completion. Hardware design architecture is discussed to help develop an architecture to meet the requirements placed upon it, and the trade-offs required to achieve the budget. The FPGA development lifecycle and the inputs and outputs from each stage, including design, test benches, synthesis, mapping, place and route and power estimation, are also presented. Finally, the importance of reliability, why it needs to be considered, the current standards that exist, and the impact of not considering this is explained. Written by experts in the field, this is the first book by "engineers in the trenches" that presents FPGA design on a practical level.

Nick Porter graduates with a journalism degree and no journalism job. The plan is simple: transfer his retail employment to the store near home, keep applying, and be gone as soon as something better comes through.He is still there.Succession Planning is a novella about the particular trap of being good at a job you never meant to keep. Set across a single stretch of employment in a slow, slightly broken drug store; where the freezer alarm has been going since the blackout, the manager texts at 3 a.m. about whether to watch Elf, and someone is always in line for a promotion nobody actually wants. It follows Nick and his coworkers through the slow, almost imperceptible process by which a placeholder becomes a career.Told in retrospect, with the warm precision of someone who can see exactly where everything went wrong and still cannot quite explain why he let it, Succession Planning is a funny, melancholy, and sharply observed portrait of early adulthood: the comfort of staying, the cost of leaving, and the specific indignity of being very good at something that was only ever supposed to be temporary.