EDN

Introducing the Integrated Circuit (IC) Design Cycle

The process of designing, manufacturing, and testing ICs is complex and exhaustive. The main contributors are the design and verification teams, IP vendors, and IC manufacturers. The process of ...
EDN

Power-aware FPGA design (Part 1)

Power consumption requirements in new autonomous, multimedia-savvy consumer products that can store, transmit, and receive data have catapulted system architects and board and chip designers into a ...
Electronic Design

Pioneering FPGA-on-Modules: SGET Works to Develop Standard

The SGET embedded standardization body is hammering out a standard for FPGA-on-modules. Discover the benefits and how the new Harmonized FPGA Module (HFM) standard will impact the industry. Why ...
Design-Reuse

FPGA design from scratch

I have been designing ASICs for more than 15 years. A few years ago I started to realize that there is another player in town and that is the FPGA circuit. With increasing NRE costs and with the long ...
Design-Reuse

Designing control circuits for FPGA-based DSP systems

FPGAs have made significant strides as engines for implementing high-performance signal processing functions, whether for ASIC replacement or performance acceleration in the signal processing chain ...
Electronics Weekly

FPGA verification for DO-254 is in the hardware

Verifying a complex FPGA design under DO-254 guidelines for use in safety- and mission-critical airborne systems is not without its challenges. Louie De Luna, Aldec Europe’s Product Manager for DO-254 ...
Electronic Design

The Principles of FPGAs

This file type includes high-resolution graphics and schematics when applicable. The first FPGA was invented by Ross Freeman (cofounder of Xilinx) in 1985 and since then their logic capacity has ...