Mitigating Microprocessor Obsolescence with FPGAs

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Date: Wednesday, June 25, 2008
Time: 11:00 AM Pacific / 2:00 PM Eastern
Duration: 1 hour

Overview

Microprocessor and microcontroller End-of-Life announcements signal a potentially costly problem for those who design long life-cycle products. This webcast will focus on ways to use reprogrammable FPGAs to avoid the potential trauma of these announcements. Attend this webcast to see how two customers used Lattice FPGAs to save their designs with little or no impact to their existing hardware and software.

Speaker Information

Kerry Howell

Kerry Howell Lattice Semiconductor Kerry Howell is a Sr. Automotive Marketing Specialist for Lattice Semiconductor Corporation. He has 30+ years experience in developing electronics solutions. Certified by Intel Corporation in 1977, Kerry was one of the first distributor field Applications Engineers in the industry. His 22 years of active FAE work was followed by 7 years managing Field Applications Engineers and actively marketing engineering services to customers. In addition, Kerry also has an extensive background in industrial control systems and software.