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 ...
mccormick.northwestern.edu

COMP_ENG 355: ASIC and FPGA Design

This course will introduce students to practical design methodologies for developing applications for FPGAs and ASICs. You will learn the fundamentals for FPGA and ASIC design through software coding ...
Design-Reuse

Automatic C-to-VHDL testbench generation shortens FPGA development time

Verifying behavior early and often has become critical with FPGAs. Newer generations of FPGAs have gate counts that rival the largest custom ASICs of five years ago. This fact, coupled with the broad ...
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 ...
EDN

Choosing a Real-Time Platform: FPGAs vs. Real-Time Operating Systems

FPGAs (FIELD-PROGRAMMABLE GATE ARRAYS) are ICs that contain large numbers of unconnected gates whose function you determine by downloading to the FPGA a wiring list that determines how the gates ...
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 ...
Business Wire

Xilinx ‘Lifts Off’ with Launch of Industry’s First 20nm Space-Grade FPGA for Satellite and Space Applications

SAN JOSE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Xilinx, Inc. (NASDAQ: XLNX), the leader in adaptive and intelligent computing, today announced the industry’s first 20-nanometer (nm) space-grade FPGA, delivering ...
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 ...