Semiconductor Engineering

FPGA Design And Verification in Mechatronic Applications

The biggest challenge in using FPGA devices may be one of methodology. FPGA designers are familiar with HDL-based requirements-driven design methodologies for digital electronics. But how can ...
Semiconductor Engineering

FPGA VHDL Verification

This is actually possible – and with an average efficiency improvement of 20% to 50% for medium to high complexity FPGAs. Less for data path oriented designs and more for control or protocol oriented ...
EDN

Building FPGA-based digital downconverters with graphical design tools

High bandwidth digital downconverters (DDCs) are critical components in many high-performance systems, including receivers of modulated communications, medical imaging devices, and low-level RF ...
Design-Reuse

New Xilinx Virtex-7 FPGA VC709 Connectivity Kit Accelerates Design Productivity for High-Bandwidth Applications

SAN JOSE, Calif., Oct. 8, 2013-- Xilinx, Inc. (NASDAQ: XLNX) announced availability of its Virtex®-7 FPGA VC709 Connectivity Kit, a 40 Gbps platform that enables designers to accelerate design ...
Design-Reuse

New Xilinx Kintex-7 FPGA Connectivity Kit Dramatically Increases Productivity for Designing High Bandwidth Applications

SAN JOSE, Calif., June 28, 2012 -- Xilinx Inc. today announced the availability of the Kintexâ„¢-7 FPGA Connectivity Kit for customers creating advanced serial I/O designs across a broad range of high ...
TechRepublic

Design and Verification of VHDL Code for FPGA Based Slave VME Interface Logic

Versa Module Europa (VME) bus is used in various applications in order to ensure safety and security. VME64x based Real Time Computer (RTC) system with various types of Input /Output (I/O) hardware ...
HotHardware

AMD Patent Reveals Hybrid CPU-FPGA Design That Could Be Enabled By Xilinx Tech

While they often aren’t as great as CPUs on their own, FPGAs can do a wonderful job accelerating specific tasks. Whether it's accelerating acting as a fabric for wide-scale datacenter services ...
Hackaday

Slice Your Next FPGA Design

A recent trend has been to convert high-level constructs into FPGA code like Verilog or VHDL. Silice goes the other way: it converts very hardware-specific concepts to Verilog and aims to be a more ...
EDN

Xilinx Launches First High-Density, Rad-Hard Reconfigurable FPGA For Space Applications

SAN JOSE, Calif., July 19 /PRNewswire/ — Xilinx, Inc. (Nasdaq: XLNX) today launched the industry's first high-density, rad-hard reconfigurable FPGA for withstanding radiation environments encountered ...