EDN

FPGAs tackle microcontroller tasks: Part 2 – ‘Flexible’ CPUs

Part 1 of this feature dealt with the burgeoning growth in automotive electronics applications, which strains current electronics architectures, and how FPGAs offer control, processing, and cost ...
EDN

Microcontroller interfaces ARM7 core with FPGA

Atmel’s ARM7-based AT91CAP7E microcontroller includes an FPGA interface, a six-layer AHB (advanced high-speed bus), a peripheral-DMA controller, and 160 kbytes of on-chip SRAM. The FPGA interface ...
Electronic Design

Innovative Integration Mixes Micros WIth FPGAs

Fig 1. Intel’s E600C blends an Intel Atom processor with an Altera FPGA on a multi-chip package linking the two using PCI Express links. Fig 2. Xilinx’s Zynq-7000 EPP puts a full dual-core Cortex-A9 ...
Hackaday

ARMs And FPGAs Make For Interesting Dev Boards

Tiny Linux computers are everywhere, and between BeagleBones, Raspberry and Banana Pis, and a hundred other boards out there, there are enough choices to go around. There is an extremely interesting ...
Electronic Design

Compact FPGAs Are Becoming Ubiquitous

When I was involved in mainframe design, we dealt with logic gates that would be packed a few dozen per chip. Comparable designs now occur within ASICs and FPGAs. These days, designers turn to off-the ...
Hackaday

Arduino Just Introduced An FPGA Board, Announces Debugging And Better Software

Today ahead of the Bay Area Maker Faire, Arduino has announced a bevy of new boards that bring modern features and modern chips to the Arduino ecosystem. Most ambitious of these new offerings is a ...
Design News

Learning About FPGAs, Part 1

Field programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) are integrated circuits that provide the foundation to implement custom digital circuits. These highly customizable ICs make it possible to design complex ...
AV Network

Justin Kennington on AV Supply Chain Using FPGA vs. ASIC Chips

SDVoE Alliance President, Justin Kennington shares his perspective on how FPGA versus ASIC chips impacts the product supply chain in the AV industry. When you purchase through links on our site, we ...
Semiconductor Engineering

FPGAs Becoming More SoC-Like

FPGAs are blinged-out rockstars compared to their former selves. No longer just a collection of look-up tables (LUTs) and registers, FPGAs have moved well beyond into now being architectures for ...
Network World

Intel updates FPGA product line

Intel refreshed its FPGA line-up with cost-optimized offerings, released its FPGA software stack as open source, and added a new processor design based on the RISC-V architecture. The first of the new ...
Design-Reuse

Bluewater Systems Selects Altera Cyclone FPGAs for Development of Customizable, ARM-Based Module

SAN JOSE, Calif. -- Oct 16, 2006-- Altera Corporation (Nasdaq: ALTR) today announced that Bluewater Systems is using the Cyclone(R) series of low-cost FPGAs in the design of their award-winning ...
Semiconductor Engineering

FPGAs Drive Deeper Into Cars

FPGAs are reaching deeper and wider inside of automobiles, playing an increasingly important role across more systems within a vehicle as the electronic content continues to grow. The role of FPGAs in ...