EDN

Dual-port FPGA memory blocks: the ultimate system interconnect solution?

Using dual-port memories (“dual ports”) as system interconnects has proven to be an effective interface strategy for bridging multiple processing elements in high-performance applications. Not only do ...
Electronic Design

Expanding The FPGA Interconnect

The UltraScale architecture is Xilinx's answer to getting ASIC system level performance out of an FPGA. It will be utilized in their 20-nm FPGAs that including the Artix, Kintex and Virtex families.
EDN

Altera aims low-cost FPGA line at mainstream interconnects

San Jose, Calif. — Altera Corp. tomorrow will officially roll out a line of entry-level FPGAs built to support Gigabit Ethernet, PCI Express and serial RapidIO transceivers at the lowest possible ...
The Next Platform

Europeans Push FPGA-Powered Exascale Prototype Out the Door

The European Exascale System InterconNect and Storage (ExaNeSt) project has wrapped up, having completed development of its prototype system and run a series of application benchmarks on it. The ...
Semiconductor Engineering

Integrating 16nm FPGA Into 28/22nm SoC Without Losing Speed Or Flexibility

Systems companies like FPGA because it gives parallel processing performance that can outdo processors for many workloads and because it can be reconfigured when standards, algorithms, protocols or ...
Semiconductor Engineering

Integrating FPGA: Comparison Of Chiplets Vs. eFPGA

FPGA is widely popular in systems for its flexibility and adaptability. Increasingly, it is being used in high volume applications. As volumes grow, system designers can consider integration of the ...
Computerworld

Intel ships Stratix 10 DX FPGAs with PCIe 4 and Optane support, partners with VMWare

The company’s latest Field Programmable Gate Arrays for accelerating data center workloads will feature support for faster high-speed interconnects and non-volatile Optane memory. Continuing its ...
ZDNet

Photonics startup Ayar Labs receives $35 million funding to interconnect massively parallel computers

The age of chips connected via beams of light is upon us, according to Charles Wuischpard, chief executive of Silicon Valley startup Ayar Labs, which has received $35 million in new funding, bringing ...
Electronic Design

FPGAs Enter The Third Dimension

Tabula's ABAX is not your conventional FPGA. Its 3D time via and folds can expand the number of logical gates by a factor of 8 in addition to a number of other features. Tabula’s ABAX chips take FPGA ...