EDN

FPGA design software goes graphic

Graphical tools for system design are also available for FPGA programming. These software tools are now being created to work closely with FPGA-based hardware platforms to make custom hardware even ...
Forbes

For Intel, Adding Altera, FPGA Hardware Is Easy: Next Comes Supporting Software

With last week's big Altera acquisition Intel made an expensive bet on a future of data center hardware that uses significantly more customized designs than today's monolithic racks of commodity x86 ...
EDN

Software-defined FPGA computing with QuickPlay: Product how-to

Data-centre equipment manufacturers have long been keen to take advantage of the massive parallelism possible with FPGAs to achieve the processing performance and I/O bandwidth needed to keep pace ...
Electronic Design

FPGAs Become Software Friendly

Fig 1. Altera’s NIOS II Embedded Evaluation Kit is a platform for checking out the 32-bit NIOS II soft-core processor. Fig 2. Microsemi’s SmartFusion Evaluation Kit has an FPGA with a hard-core Arm ...
SiliconANGLE

Intel adds new programming tools to speed adoption of FPGA custom chips for AI

Intel Corp. has spent a lot of effort pushing the concept of its Field Programmable Gate Arrays, which can be used to accelerate various computing tasks such as artificial intelligence and machine ...
Embedded

CPU plus FPGA design flow for software developers: A new tangible reality

Recently, Brian Bailey organized a round table that resulted in a two-part article called Supporting CPUs Plus FPGAs. The experts discussed the evolving reality of systems design based on FPGAs and ...
Nasdaq

Lattice Diamond Software Tool Delivers New Enhancements for FPGA Design, Simulation, and Verification

HILLSBORO, Ore.--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Lattice Semiconductor Corporation (NASDAQ: LSCC), the low power programmable leader, today announced availability of the latest version of its popular FPGA design ...
Android Authority

FPGA vs software emulation for retro gaming: We've tested both and here are the big differences

When it comes to retro gaming, it can be hard to get your hands on original hardware. Even if you can, most retro consoles don’t jive with modern televisions, so the experience will be noticeably ...
Network World

FPGA maker Xilinx aims range of software-programmable chips at data centers

As data centers are called upon to handle an explosion of unstructured data fed into a variety of cutting-edge applications, the future for FPGAs looks bright. That’s because FPGAs, or field ...
InfoQ

FPGAs Supercharge Computational Performance

FPGAs can meet the performance demands of artificial intelligence and big data which are seeing exponential global growth FPGAs increase processing speeds and reduce hardware costs by running massive ...
Computerworld

FPGA maker Xilinx aims new software programmable chips at data centers

As data centers are called upon to handle an explosion of unstructured data fed into a variety of cutting-edge applications, the future for FPGAs looks bright. That’s because FPGAs, or field ...