EDN

FPGA, PCB tools must work together

As system design companies deal with the trials of today's economic environment, they face the dual challenges of finding ways to improve the efficiency of their product development and manufacturing ...
insideHPC

Gidel FPGA Tools Speed Development with Intel’s HLS

Today Gidel announced the availability of new development tools that take advantage of Intel’s HLS, producing a speed increase of 5x over prior development options. Intel’s High Level Synthesis (HLS) ...
SiliconANGLE

Intel adds new programming tools to speed adoption of FPGA custom chips for AI

Intel Corp. has spent a lot of effort pushing the concept of its Field Programmable Gate Arrays, which can be used to accelerate various computing tasks such as artificial intelligence and machine ...
Nasdaq

Altera Launches Altera University to Equip Students with Industry-ready FPGA Skills

Access to curriculum and modern FPGA tools enable professors to accelerate the FPGA learning experience Through Altera University, professors can incorporate the latest design techniques using modern ...
EDN

Inside DSP on Tools: FPGA Tools Bridge Gap Between Algorithm and Implementation

Increasingly FPGAs are being used to perform signal-processing tasks, particularly in computationally demanding application areas such as video processing and communications. Their massive parallelism ...
Hackaday

Icestorm Tools Roundup: Open Source FPGA Dev Guide

We like the ICE40 FPGA from Lattice for two reasons: there are cheap development boards like the Icestick available for it and there are open source tools. We’ve based several tutorials on the ...
Semiconductor Engineering

FPGA And System Designs Get To Market Faster Leveraging ASIC-Proven Analysis Tools

Digital systems need clocks. Today’s designs require more from clocking schemes than ever before, and it’s likely this trend will continue. Increasing power constraints have resulted in finer-grained ...
Hackaday

Learning Verilog For FPGAs: The Tools And Building An Adder

Over the last year we’ve had several posts about the Lattice Semiconductor iCEstick which is shown below. The board looks like an overgrown USB stick with no case, but it is really an FPGA development ...
Linux Journal

Xilinx FPGA Design Tools for Linux

A field programmable gate array (FPGA) is a user-programmable piece of silicon constructed in very large-scale integration (VLSI) technology. The VLSI transistor-level detail is absolutely predefined ...
Design-Reuse

Partial reconfiguration in FPGA rapid prototyping tools

FPGA rapid prototyping tools are greatly useful at the time of designing and testing complex signal processing systems, due to their graphic programming environment and the possibility they offer to ...
Embedded

HARDWARE TOOLS: Avnet, Cypress upgrade Spartan-3A FPGA evaluation kit

Avnet ElectronicsMarketing Americas and Cypress Semiconductor have teamed up on anupgrade of the Spartan-3A FPGA Evaluation Kit. The upgraded kit includes the addition of Cypress' CY3217 ...
Electronic Design

FPGAs Ride Tools Into ASIC Territory

When pondering your next-generation system design, you may ask yourself whether the spiraling mask costs have priced you out of the ASIC game. You'll perform the requisite analyses of performance ...