EDN

Cadence links FPGA-pin allocation to PCB-layout tools

Designers who use today’s large FPGAs on their PCBs (printed-circuit boards) face an increasing problem: handling the pinout and board tracking around the packages of these programmable devices. The ...
Semiconductor Engineering

Manycore-FPGA Architecture Employing Novel Duet Adapters To Integrate eFPGAs in a Scalable, Non-Intrusive, Cache-Coherent Manner (Princeton)

A technical paper titled “Duet: Creating Harmony between Processors and Embedded FPGAs” was written by researchers at Princeton University. “The demise of Moore’s Law has led to the rise of hardware ...
EDN

Xilinx unveil revolutionary 65nm FPGA architecture: the Virtex-5 family

Xilinx's new Virtex-5 devices are the world's first FPGAs to be fabricated at the 65 nm technology node. These devices are based on a low-K dielectric process that reduces parasitic capacitance, ...
Design-Reuse

Xilinx Unveils Revolutionary FPGA Architecture, Enables Next-Generation Platform FPGAs

SAN JOSE, Calif., December 8, 2003 - Xilinx, Inc. (NASDAQ:XLNX), the world's leading supplier of programmable logic solutions and inventor of the FPGA, today unveiled a revolutionary new architecture ...
The Next Platform

Xilinx Unveils xDNN FPGA Architecture for AI Inference

FPGAs might not have carved out a niche in the deep learning training space the way some might have expected but the low power, high frequency needs of AI inference fit the curve of reprogrammable ...
The Next Platform

Intel FPGA Architecture Focuses on Deep Learning Inference

There has been much written about the potential for FPGAs to take a leadership role in accelerating deep learning but in practice, the hurdles of getting from concept to high performance hardware ...
Design-Reuse

FPGA prototyping of complex SoCs: Partitioning and Timing Closure Challenges with Solutions

In the nanometer era, complex SoCs have higher risk of re-spins. Undoubtedly FPGA prototyping is the right way of pre-silicon SoC validation, accelerate system software development and to meet time-to ...
Electronic Design

FPGA Q&A: Lattice Semiconductor

Electronic Design held a series of Q&A sessions with several major FPGA companies. Here, our roundtable discussion with Lattice Semiconductor included Bertrand Leigh, director of applications ...
Electronic Design

FPGAs Pushing MCUs As The Platform Of Choice

Falling FPGA prices and ever-improving tools make FPGA development more palatable to designers who aren’t well versed in this arena. Likewise, the increased number of choices and improved ...