Semiconductor Engineering

Integrating FPGA: Comparison Of Chiplets Vs. eFPGA

FPGA is widely popular in systems for its flexibility and adaptability. Increasingly, it is being used in high volume applications. As volumes grow, system designers can consider integration of the ...
Semiconductor Engineering

The Case For Combining CPUs With FPGA Fabrics

Given that the industry is beginning to reach the limits of what can physically and economically be achieved through further shrinkage of process geometries, reducing feature size and increasing ...
Electronic Design

Best practices for user-programmable FPGA instrumentation

Field programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) are used extensively in today’s electronic assemblies and test engineers are also choosing to incorporate user-programmable FPGA instrumentation as part of their ...
Design-Reuse

FPGA Prototyping as a Verification Methodology

To some degree, FPGA prototyping has become commonplace in the majority of SoC development programs. This paper is a brief discussion of four aspects of this type of approach. First the forces behind ...
EDN

FPGA firmware example of how to interface Altera FPGAs to high-speed LVDS-interface data converters

This reference design and the associated example Verilog code can be used as a starting point for interfacing Altera FPGAs to Texas Instruments' high-speed LVDS-interface analog-to-digital converters ...
Design-Reuse

National Instruments Increases IP Availability With New NI LabVIEW FPGA IPNet

NEWS RELEASE – Oct. 20, 2010 – National Instruments today introduced its new version of NI LabVIEW FPGA IPNet, an online resource that helps digital design engineers browse, download and share the ...
Automation World

How Vision Is Becoming More Viable for Automation

FPGAs can be targeted at a wide array of automation hardware, including vision systems. In a recent blog post, The Coming Age of Vision Guided Robots, the impact low-cost imaging sensors are having on ...