Electronic Design

Take The FPGA Plunge

FPGAs are expensive... and hard to use... and too slow... and difficult to program... and hard to debug... and they draw too much power... and require register-transfer-level (RTL) wizards. That’s the ...
Electronic Design

FPGA Design Issues 201

It doesn't matter if you're the logic designer, hardware engineer, or systems engineer, or if you wear all of those hats. If you use an FPGA in any sort of complex system with high speeds and multiple ...
Design-Reuse

Do's and Don'ts of Architecting the Right FPGA Solution for DSP Design

Finally a Practical "Do and Don't" primer on architecting FPGA solutions for DSP design. With more do's than don’ts, the article is a down-to-basics look at how to avoid the pitfalls and realize ...
Embedded

Tackle team-based FPGA design

You see them at almost every user seminar or industry trade show workshop: the Methodology Managers from XYZ Corporation, who describe the system they use to help the company make sense of the ...
EDN

Is FPGA a simpler puzzle for ASIC designers?

Over the last 10 years, FPGA vendors have made great strides in overcoming the shortcomings of FPGAs and taking share from the ASIC market. In the late 1990s, FPGA vendors increased the capacity of ...
EDN

Xilinx launches first 7 Series FPGA design platforms

Xilinx has launched its first Targeted Design Platforms for accelerating systems development and integration with its 28nm 7 series Field-Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs). Xilinx’s Targeted Design ...
Design-Reuse

Mentor Graphics Launches Precise-IP Vendor-independent IP Platform for FPGA Design

WILSONVILLE, Ore., September 3, 2009 — Mentor Graphics Corporation (NASDAQ: MENT) today announced Precise-IP™ — a new vendor-independent IP (Intellectual Property) platform as part of the Mentor ...