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FPGAs and the New IP Economy - Micro-scale Hardware as a Service-January 15, 2010 |
As engineers, all of us probably had to take at least one economics course in college. It was usually one of those curriculum "requirements" that we agonized through, amused only by the discovery that Laplace transforms were useful for something besides jumping between frequency and time domains.
(If you're one of our few non-engineers, don't let that last line scare you away. We're going to be talking about economics here - supply and demand and competition and giving stuff away for free and the system collapsing in on itself and leaving us in poverty after agonizing years of ... Oh, sorry. Got carried away there.)