Semiconductor Engineering

Embedded FPGA Basics

You do not need know about FPGAs to integrate reconfigurable RTL into your SoC: our software maps your RTL into our EFLX array for you. But if you are curious, read on. FPGAs are field programmable ...
EDN

Make SoCs flexible with embedded FPGA

Systems designers have long sought to provide programmability and flexibility in their systems designs to meet varying customer needs and evolving standards. The two most common approaches – FPGAs and ...
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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 ...
EDN

Toolset moves software code to FPGA hardware to quicken embedded system design

Kirkland, Wa.— Designers working with Xilinx Inc.'s Virtex-4 field-programmable gate arrays (FPGA) can create hardware-accelerated applications that can dramatically outperform applications running on ...
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 ...
Electronic Design

11 Myths About Embedded FPGAs

1. Embedded FPGAs must be expensive. Geoff Tate, CEO and Co-Founder of Flex Logix Technologies Inc. An embedded FPGA is similar to an FPGA chip, but simpler and cheaper. An FPGA chip has 30% or more ...
Semiconductor Engineering

Basics Of Embedded FPGA Acceleration

Making a chip run faster is no longer guaranteed by shrinking features or moving to a different manufacturing process. It now requires a fundamental change in the architecture of the chip itself. The ...