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 ...
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 ...
CU Boulder News & Events

ECEA 5361 Hardware Description Languages for FPGA Design

This course will give you the foundation for using Hardware Description Languages, specifically VHDL and Verilog for Logic Design. You will learn the history of both VHDL and Verilog and how to use ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...