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FPGA-based prototyping platform includes advanced memory modeling

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Cadence Design Systems, Inc. announced the new Protium™S1 FPGA-Based Prototyping Platform, which incorporates innovative implementation algorithms to boost engineering productivity. The Protium S1 platform provides front-end congruency with the Cadence® Palladium® Z1 Enterprise Emulation Platform, thereby delivering 80 percent faster design bring-up on average when compared to typical FPGA prototyping approaches. Utilizing Xilinx® Virtex™ UltraScale™ FPGA technology, the new Cadence platform […]

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Mid-range, power- and security-optimized FPGAs aim to make FPGAs great again

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The number of FPGA manufacturers is relatively small so — like suppliers in any number of electronic components and systems markets — increased competition has lead to an even more increasing need to develop products with differentiating features. Now add in the IoT-inspired move from homogeneous to heterogeneous computing where we see intelligence being pushed to the […]

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Integrated wireless VR video chipset delivers low latency, high bandwidth

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Lattice Semiconductor, the leading provider of customizable smart connectivity solutions, and TPCAST announced an exclusive partnership to deliver wireless solutions for head mount display (HMD)-based VR systems. Lattice’s WirelessHD® solution, along with a suite of FPGA and ASSP products, are offered exclusively in TPCAST’s VR applications which require low latency, high bandwidth wireless video transmission. […]

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FAQ: MCU vs FPGA — What’s the diff?

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FPGAs are highly configurable, general purpose integrated circuits (ICs) filled with small programmable digital logic building blocks called “logic cells” (by Altera) or “logic elements” (by Xilinx). A custom IC, or Application Specific Integrated Circuit (ASIC), is very similar but with ASICs, a custom circuit design is set in silicon and is difficult to change […]

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FPGA motor controller gets resolver interface and Sinc3 filter

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Microsemi Corporation, a leading provider of semiconductor solutions differentiated by power, security, reliability and performance, today announced new enhancements to its field programmable gate array (FPGA)-based deterministic multi-axis motor control solution, with two new intellectual property (IP) offerings, a Resolver interface and a Sinc3 filter, both to support designs using resolver sensors. In addition, the company […]

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electronica 2016: technology marvels in Munich

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What do you get when you bring over 2,900 companies together to exhibit to 73,000 visitors in Munich? No, Octoberfest was last month. This every-other-year event, electronica 2016, was applications heavy, highlighted by components, systems, and software for the automotive market. Not to be outdone, the ubiquitous IoT applications headlined this year’s theme of “Connected […]

Open instruction set architecture core available on SoC FPGAs with RISC-V design support software

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Microsemi Corporation today announced it is the first field programmable gate array (FPGA) provider to offer a comprehensive software tool chain and intellectual property (IP) core for RISC-V designs. The company’s RV32IM RISC-V core is available for Microsemi’s IGLOO™2 FPGAs, SmartFusion™2 system-on-chip (SoC) FPGAs or RTG4™ FPGAs, with an Eclipse-based SoftConsole integrated development environment (IDE) hosted on a Linux platform and the Libero SoC Design […]

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New FPGAs cover transceiver, scalable ARM core applications

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Today’s Embedded Vision and Industrial IoT applications need to collect, aggregate, and analyze data from a variety of sensors for actionable insights.  Whether scaling a multi-sensor camera’s functionality…

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Level Shifting Digital Logic Signals Part 2

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I discussed the problem of level shifting logic signals a while ago but I noticed the recently introduced NXP AXP level shifters so thought it was worth revisiting the subject to see if these new devices will really help solving the problem of interfacing the increasingly varied power supply voltages in digital and mixed-signal circuits.  […]