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 ...
Electronic Design

FPGA Design Issues 201

It doesn't matter if you're the logic designer, hardware engineer, or systems engineer, or if you wear all of those hats. If you use an FPGA in any sort of complex system with high speeds and multiple ...
EDN

Advancing FPGA design flows using Chronology’s TimingDesigner

When combined with advances in FPGA technologies that ease complex interface design efforts, Chronology's TimingDesigner can simplify design issues and provide advanced accurate control of high-speed ...
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 ...
EDN

Xilinx launches first 7 Series FPGA design platforms

Xilinx has launched its first Targeted Design Platforms for accelerating systems development and integration with its 28nm 7 series Field-Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs). Xilinx’s Targeted Design ...