Hackaday

Learning Verilog For FPGAs: Hardware At Last!

Getting into FPGA design isn’t a monolithic experience. You have to figure out a toolchain, learn how to think in hardware during the design, and translate that into working Verliog. The end goal is ...
EDN

Is FPGA power design ready for concurrent engineering?

When designers address the power requirements and constraints for an FPGA-based design earlier in the development process, it can yield significant competitive advantage in the final implementation of ...
Semiconductor Engineering

FPGA Design Tradeoffs Getting Tougher

FPGAs are getting larger, more complex, and significantly harder to verify and debug. In the past, FPGAs were considered a relatively quick and simple way to get to market before committing to the ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Hackaday

FPGA Design From Top To Bottom

[Roland Lutz] gave a talk about FPGA design using the free tools for Lattice devices at the MetaRheinMainChaosDays conference this year. You can see the video below. It’s a great introduction to FPGAs ...
Electronic Design

FPGA Design Tool Takes Hierarchical Approach

The Quartus II FPGA design tool just got a boost from Altera. It incorporates the new SpectraQ engine which is designed to handle large and complex applications as chips are being delivered with over ...
EDN

Reality TV for FPGA design engineers!

Announcer – Mr. Don Deep Voice: Welcome to “America's Next Top Engineer!” The show where electrical engineers show off their world-class problem-solving abilities (or lack thereof) and move on to fame ...
Business Wire

PRO DESIGN Unveils Affordable Virtex 7 Based FPGA Module for Multi FPGA Prototyping at DAC 2013

MUNICH, Germany--(BUSINESS WIRE)--PRO DESIGN, veteran in the EMS and EDA industry, today announced the launch of its “proFPGA V7 Mini FPGA Module”, a very cost efficient FPGA module offering highest ...