Semiconductor Engineering

The Case For Combining CPUs With FPGA Fabrics

Given that the industry is beginning to reach the limits of what can physically and economically be achieved through further shrinkage of process geometries, reducing feature size and increasing ...
Design-Reuse

FPGA Prototyping as a Verification Methodology

To some degree, FPGA prototyping has become commonplace in the majority of SoC development programs. This paper is a brief discussion of four aspects of this type of approach. First the forces behind ...
Design-Reuse

National Instruments Increases IP Availability With New NI LabVIEW FPGA IPNet

NEWS RELEASE – Oct. 20, 2010 – National Instruments today introduced its new version of NI LabVIEW FPGA IPNet, an online resource that helps digital design engineers browse, download and share the ...
EDN

FPGA firmware example of how to interface Altera FPGAs to high-speed LVDS-interface data converters

This reference design and the associated example Verilog code can be used as a starting point for interfacing Altera FPGAs to Texas Instruments' high-speed LVDS-interface analog-to-digital converters ...
Automation World

How Vision Is Becoming More Viable for Automation

FPGAs can be targeted at a wide array of automation hardware, including vision systems. In a recent blog post, The Coming Age of Vision Guided Robots, the impact low-cost imaging sensors are having on ...