EDN

Improve FPGA project management/test by eschewing the IDE

A common way to do an FPGA design is to create a project using your design tool. A project consists of a hierarchy of directories and many files. Creating a project, you have a nice GUI, wizards, and ...
EDN

FPGA synthesis can be a leverage point in your design flow

FPGA design starts are on the rise due to the lower startup costs and re-programmability that FPGA devices can provide. However, large, complex FPGA devices pose significant challenges to an FPGA ...
Hackaday

Hands-On With New Arduino FPGA Board: MKR Vidor 4000

Hackaday brought you a first look the Arduino MKR Vidor 4000 when it announced. Arduino sent over one of the first boards so now we finally have our hands on one! It’s early and the documentation is ...
Hackaday

FPGA Used VHDL For Fractals

Over on GitHub, [ttsiodras] wanted to learn VHDL. So he started with an algorithm to do Mandelbrot sets and moved it to an FPGA. Because of the speed, he was able to accomplish real-time zooming. You ...
Semiconductor Engineering

Trends In FPGA Verification Effort And Adoption: The 2018 Wilson Research Group Functional Verification Study

As contributors and pioneers in the digital revolution, we are often so busy creating and innovating that we are compelled to focus on the trees, never mind the forest. But as we are all aware, the ...
Geeky Gadgets

µLab Kiwi and Kiwi Lite FPGA programming board

Soon to be launching via the Crowd Supply website are two new FPGA programming boards taking the form of the µLab Kiwi and Kiwi Lite. The project has launched as yet but you can jump over to the ...
Semiconductor Engineering

Verification Effectiveness In The Face Of FPGA Complexity: The 2020 Wilson Research Group Functional Verification Study

Making informed decisions backed by good data is the key to success in highly competitive, robust markets such as FPGA design and verification. Helping our community in that endeavor is the motivation ...
Datacenter Dynamics

Microsoft previews FPGA-based machine learning service for Azure

Microsoft is set to capitalize on its work on integrating field programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) into servers for machine learning workloads, by launching a specialized Azure cloud service. Project ...
New Electronics

Verifying fpga based systems using Altium Designer and OpenCores

When designing electronic modules and systems, the components and the complete board need to be verified at different stages of the project. This requires a test environment that stimulates the object ...