SPRING 2018 VOL. 10 * NO. 2 www.ieee.org/sscs-news features 16 Three Ages of FPGAs: A Retrospective on the First Thirty Years of FPGA Technology By Stephen M. (Steve) Trimberger 30 36 Recognized as the Best By André DeHon The Practical Applications and Uses of FPGAs By Mike Dini 46 Calibration and Dynamic Matching in Data Converters By Kenneth C. Dyer, John P. Keane, and Stephen H. Lewis about this image: Read all about the technology of field-programmable-gate arrays in the article by Stephen Trimberger. columns/departments 3 4 5 6 7 8 11 56 86 99 110 113 115 122 124 EDITOR'S NOTE cONTRIbuTORS LETTERS TO ThE EDITOR PRESIDENT'S cORNER ASSOcIATE EDITOR'S VIEW cIRcuIT INTuITIONS A cIRcuIT fOR ALL SEASONS chAPTERS ISScc 2018 cONfERENcE REPORTS PEOPLE IN MEMORIAM SOcIETY NEWS IEEE NEWS cONfERENcE cALENDAR Digital Object Identifier 10.1109/MSSC.2018.2821399 IEEE SOLID-STATE CIRCUITS MAGAZINE s p r i n g 2 0 18 1http://www.ieee.org/sscs-news