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ECEA 5360 Introduction to FPGA Design for Embedded Systems

This course will give you the foundation for FPGA design in Embedded Systems. You will learn what an FPGA is and how this technology was developed, how to select the best FPGA architecture for a given ...
Hackaday

Glasgow Uses An FPGA As An Embedded Systems Multitool

Everyone who builds embedded systems wants tools to help build and debug systems faster, so it isn’t uncommon to see boards outfitted with various tools like serial port sniffers. We’ve seen a few ...
Design News

Design-In Spartan 7 FPGA Tile Speeds Embedded Project Development

In an earlier column (see "Embedded Dev Board Boasts Spartan 7 FPGA With Raspberry Pi Pico RP2040 MCU," I made mention of my friend Adam Taylor, who is the founder of a high-tech consultancy called ...
Semiconductor Engineering

New Embedded FPGA Compiler Maximizes IP Implementation Efficiency

When designing IP for system-on-chip (SoC) and application-specific integrated circuit (ASIC) implementations, IP designers strive for perfection. Optimal engineering often yields the smallest die ...
Geeky Gadgets

Coin-sized FPGA solutions from Embedded World 2024

With FPGA (Field Programmable Gate Array) embedded systems, you can unlock a world of possibilities. These versatile systems offer a high degree of customization, allowing you to tailor their ...
Electronic Specifier

Bridging the FPGA and GPU worlds

TECHWAY integrates NVIDIA’s GPUDirect RDMA tech into its PCIe FPGA platforms; a direct path between acquisition hardware and GPU processing.
CU Boulder News & Events

ECEA 5362 FPGA Softcore Processors and IP Acquisition

The objective of this course is to learn how to develop, program, and use Softcore Processors with associated IP integration. To accomplish this, the Nios II Softcore Processor from Intel Altera is ...
Electronic Design

Q&A: Embedded FPGA Facilitates Reconfigurable SoC/MCU RTL Blocks

Field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) have provided developers with flexibility. Recently, FPGAs have incorporated system-on-chip (SoC) microprocessors such 64-bit, ARM Cortex-A57 cores. This ...
Semiconductor Engineering

Embedded GPU for FPGA, Achieving Over 770 MHz Operating Frequency With Unconstrained Compile

A technical paper titled “eGPU: A 750 MHz Class Soft GPGPU for FPGA” was published by researchers at Intel Corporation and Imperial College London. “This paper introduces the eGPU, a SIMT soft ...
EDN

MIPS-Based, FPGA Soft Core Processor

Altera Corporation (NASDAQ: ALTR), MIPS Technologies (NASDAQ: MIPS) and System Level Solutions (SLS) Corporation today introduced a MIPS-Based™, FPGA-optimized soft processor for use on Altera’s FPGA ...
Electronic Design

Pioneering FPGA-on-Modules: SGET Works to Develop Standard

Why board-level standardization of FPGA implementations matter. What the Harmonized FPGA Module (HFM) standard entails. How semiconductor manufacturers, embedded module manufacturers, VARs, system ...
EDN

Altera, MIPS Technologies and SLS Announce the MP32 Core, the First MIPS-Based, FPGA-Optimized Soft Core Processor

“This joint development further reinforces Altera's commitment to embrace industry-leading processors as part of our embedded initiative,” said Vince Hu, vice president of product and corporate ...