Semiconductor Engineering

Logic Synthesis Basics For FPGA

In the early days of digital design, all circuits were designed manually. You would draw K-map, optimize the logic and draw the schematics. If you remember, we all ...
Electronic Design

Cost-Conscious FPGAs Quadruple Logic Density

Nearly four times the logic density of previous low-cost FPGA families—that's the earmark of the just-released Cyclone FPGA family. With a logic architecture redesigned from the ground up, Altera now ...
EDN

Debugging hybrid FPGA logic/processor designs

FPGAs continue to advance, enabling ever more integration of programmable technologies into the heart of embedded systems. Today’s high-performance FPGAs boast hundreds of thousands of programmable ...
EDN

Xilinx 7 Series FPGAs Slash Power Consumption by 50% and Reach 2 Million Logic Cells on Industry’s First Scalable Architecture

SAN JOSE, Calif., June 21 /PRNewswire/ — Xilinx, Inc. (Nasdaq: XLNX) today announced the industry's first FPGA series that slashes total power consumption by 50 percent and offers industry-leading ...
Electronic Design

AMD’s New Family of Low-Cost FPGAs is All About Flexibility

With an eye toward the intelligent edge, the Spartan UltraScale+ family of programmable logic chips presents a large generational leap in not only performance and power efficiency, but also ...