Hackaday

Mithro Runs Down Open Source FPGA Toolchains

Tim [Mithro] Ansell has a lot to tell you about the current state of open FPGA tooling: 115 slides in 25 minutes if you’re counting. His SymbiFlow project aims to be the GCC of FPGA toolchains: ...
Electronic Design

Redesigned FPGA Fabrics Solve Tough Mid-Range Challenges

Most FPGA vendors tend to focus on data-center workload applications, but a large percentage of users require different architectures for mainstream applications. Vertical markets needing mid-range ...
The Next Platform

Bringing Researchers to the Frontier of FPGA Development

There are two key barriers to fully exploring the emerging use of Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs) at the scale found in data centers: capital investment for private equipment, and gaining full, ...
Hackaday

RISC-V CPU Gets A Peripheral

One of the ways people use FPGAs is to have part of the FPGA fabric hold a CPU. That makes sense because CPUs are good at some jobs that are hard to do with an FPGA, and vice versa. Now that the ...
The Next Platform

Microsoft Extends FPGA Reach From Bing To Deep Learning

After three years of research into how it might accelerate its Bing search engine using field programmable gate arrays (FPGAs), Microsoft came up with a scheme that would let it lash Stratix V devices ...
Electronic Design

FPGA Highways Speed Machine Learning and Communication

Today’s high-speed FPGAs have a passing similarity to their older counterparts. However, large arrays of identical lookup tables (LUTs) and interconnect fabrics have given way to high-speed, ...
EDN

Altera Introduces SoC FPGAs: Integrating ARM Processor System and FPGA into 28-nm Single-Chip Solution

“SoC FPGAs based on 28nm process technology represent an exciting new development for embedded systems in terms of performance and increased capacity,” said Jim Nicholas, vice president marketing, ...
Semiconductor Engineering

Adding NoCs To FPGA SoCs

FPGA SoCs straddle the line between flexibility and performance by combining elements of both FPGAs and ASICs. But as they find a home in more safety- and mission-critical markets, they also are ...
Nasdaq

Altera Starts Production Shipments of Industry’s Highest Memory Bandwidth FPGA

Agilex 7 FPGA M-Series Optimized to Reduce Memory Bottlenecks in AI and Data-intensive Applications SAN JOSE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Altera Corporation, a leader in FPGA innovations, today ...
Semiconductor Engineering

Eight Benefits Of Using An FPGA With An On-Chip High-Speed Network

Since the initial introduction of FPGAs decades ago, each new architecture has continued to employ a bit-wise routing structure. While this approach has been successful, the rise of high-speed ...
EDN

Sky-rocketing chip prices? Not with embedded FPGA (eFPGA)

Today’s chip design market has become extremely competitive and when you add on the rising cost of semiconductor manufacturing, it’s no wonder why the embedded FPGA (eFPGA) market is taking off. In ...
Embedded

How to map the H.264/AVC video standard onto an FPGA fabric

Despite its promise of improved coding efficiency over existingstandards, H.264/AVC still presentsengineering challenges. It incorporates the most significant changes andalgorithmic discontinuities in ...