Electronic Design

FPGAs Become Software Friendly

Fig 1. Altera’s NIOS II Embedded Evaluation Kit is a platform for checking out the 32-bit NIOS II soft-core processor. Fig 2. Microsemi’s SmartFusion Evaluation Kit has an FPGA with a hard-core Arm ...
Android Authority

FPGA vs software emulation for retro gaming: We've tested both and here are the big differences

When it comes to retro gaming, it can be hard to get your hands on original hardware. Even if you can, most retro consoles don’t jive with modern televisions, so the experience will be noticeably ...
EDN

Software-defined FPGA computing with QuickPlay: Product how-to

Data-centre equipment manufacturers have long been keen to take advantage of the massive parallelism possible with FPGAs to achieve the processing performance and I/O bandwidth needed to keep pace ...
Embedded

CPU plus FPGA design flow for software developers: A new tangible reality

Recently, Brian Bailey organized a round table that resulted in a two-part article called Supporting CPUs Plus FPGAs. The experts discussed the evolving reality of systems design based on FPGAs and ...
Business Wire

Lattice Releases Next-Generation FPGA Software for Development of Broad Market Low Power Embedded Applications

PORTLAND, Ore.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Lattice Semiconductor Corporation (NASDAQ:LSCC), the leading provider of customizable smart connectivity solutions, today announced the release of its new FPGA ...
Electronic Specifier

Bridging the FPGA and GPU worlds

TECHWAY integrates NVIDIA’s GPUDirect RDMA tech into its PCIe FPGA platforms; a direct path between acquisition hardware and GPU processing.
EDN

Using FPGAs for Software Radio Systems

Rodger H. Hosking is vice president and co-founder of Pentek where he is responsible for new product definition, technical marketing, and strategic alliances. With over 25 years in the electronics ...
Forbes

For Intel, Adding Altera, FPGA Hardware Is Easy: Next Comes Supporting Software

With last week's big Altera acquisition Intel made an expensive bet on a future of data center hardware that uses significantly more customized designs than today's monolithic racks of commodity x86 ...
Design-Reuse

"Lattice Diamond" FPGA Design Software Heralds New Era for Low Power, Cost Sensitive FPGA Applications

HILLSBORO, OR, Jun 28, 2010 -- Lattice Semiconductor Corporation (NASDAQ: LSCC) today announced Version 1.0 of its Lattice Diamond(TM) FPGA design software, the new flagship design environment for ...
Network World

FPGA maker Xilinx aims range of software-programmable chips at data centers

As data centers are called upon to handle an explosion of unstructured data fed into a variety of cutting-edge applications, the future for FPGAs looks bright. That’s because FPGAs, or field ...
Business Wire

JESD204B FPGA Debug Software Accelerates High-speed Design

Free, on-chip, 2-D statistical eyescan software enables fast in-system verification of high-speed data converter-to-FPGA signal integrity. NORWOOD, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Analog Devices, Inc. (NASDAQ ...