EDN

Concurrent FPGA/board co-design ties in

Historically, field-programmable gate arrays and printed-circuit boards have been conceived in disparate design environments. Toss the FPGA over the wall, and let the pc-board designer figure out how ...
Electronic Design

Take The FPGA Plunge

FPGAs are expensive... and hard to use... and too slow... and difficult to program... and hard to debug... and they draw too much power... and require register-transfer-level (RTL) wizards. That’s the ...
EDN

Reality TV for FPGA design engineers!

Announcer – Mr. Don Deep Voice: Welcome to “America's Next Top Engineer!” The show where electrical engineers show off their world-class problem-solving abilities (or lack thereof) and move on to fame ...
Embedded

Tackle team-based FPGA design

You see them at almost every user seminar or industry trade show workshop: the Methodology Managers from XYZ Corporation, who describe the system they use to help the company make sense of the ...
Electronic Design

Best practices for user-programmable FPGA instrumentation

Field programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) are used extensively in today’s electronic assemblies and test engineers are also choosing to incorporate user-programmable FPGA instrumentation as part of their ...
Semiconductor Engineering

FPGA Design Tradeoffs Getting Tougher

FPGAs are getting larger, more complex, and significantly harder to verify and debug. In the past, FPGAs were considered a relatively quick and simple way to get to market before committing to the ...
Semiconductor Engineering

Challenges In Using HLS For FPGA Design

High-level synthesis (HLS) tools, which transform C/C++ source code to Verilog/VHDL, have been commercially available for over 15 years. HLS tools from FPGA vendors and EDA companies promise improved ...
Business Wire

PRO DESIGN Unveils Affordable Virtex 7 Based FPGA Module for Multi FPGA Prototyping at DAC 2013

MUNICH, Germany--(BUSINESS WIRE)--PRO DESIGN, veteran in the EMS and EDA industry, today announced the launch of its “proFPGA V7 Mini FPGA Module”, a very cost efficient FPGA module offering highest ...
CU Boulder News & Events

ECEA 5362 FPGA Softcore Processors and IP Acquisition

The objective of this course is to learn how to develop, program, and use Softcore Processors with associated IP integration. To accomplish this, the Nios II Softcore Processor from Intel Altera is ...
HotHardware

AMD Patent Reveals Hybrid CPU-FPGA Design That Could Be Enabled By Xilinx Tech

While they often aren’t as great as CPUs on their own, FPGAs can do a wonderful job accelerating specific tasks. Whether it's accelerating acting as a fabric for wide-scale datacenter services ...
Business Wire

PRO DESIGN Launches New proFPGA XCVU37P FPGA Module for Prototyping and Verification of High Bandwidth Memory Designs

MUNICH--(BUSINESS WIRE)--PRO DESIGN, leading supplier of FPGA based prototyping systems, today launched its new proFPGA XCVU37P FPGA module for its flexible proFPGA product family. This new FPGA ...