EDN

Microcontroller Design in FPGAs

Inside any electronic device, from an old television remote to a global positioning system, there will be at least one microcontroller unit (MCU) and, in many cases, several. MCUs are used in ...
EDN

Debug a microcontroller-to-FPGA interface from the FPGA side

Microcontrollers and FPGAs often work together in embedded systems. As more functions move into the FPGA, however, debugging the interface between the two devices becomes more difficult. The ...
Electronic Design

Innovative Integration Mixes Micros WIth FPGAs

Fig 1. Intel’s E600C blends an Intel Atom processor with an Altera FPGA on a multi-chip package linking the two using PCI Express links. Fig 2. Xilinx’s Zynq-7000 EPP puts a full dual-core Cortex-A9 ...
Electronic Design

Compact FPGAs Are Becoming Ubiquitous

When I was involved in mainframe design, we dealt with logic gates that would be packed a few dozen per chip. Comparable designs now occur within ASICs and FPGAs. These days, designers turn to off-the ...
Hackaday

Arduino Just Introduced An FPGA Board, Announces Debugging And Better Software

Today ahead of the Bay Area Maker Faire, Arduino has announced a bevy of new boards that bring modern features and modern chips to the Arduino ecosystem. Most ambitious of these new offerings is a ...
Design News

Learning About FPGAs, Part 1

Field programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) are integrated circuits that provide the foundation to implement custom digital circuits. These highly customizable ICs make it possible to design complex ...
AV Network

Justin Kennington on AV Supply Chain Using FPGA vs. ASIC Chips

SDVoE Alliance President, Justin Kennington shares his perspective on how FPGA versus ASIC chips impacts the product supply chain in the AV industry. When you purchase through links on our site, we ...
Design-Reuse

Bluewater Systems Selects Altera Cyclone FPGAs for Development of Customizable, ARM-Based Module

SAN JOSE, Calif. -- Oct 16, 2006-- Altera Corporation (Nasdaq: ALTR) today announced that Bluewater Systems is using the Cyclone(R) series of low-cost FPGAs in the design of their award-winning ...
Hackaday

Use FPGAs The Easy Way With Alien Cortex AV

Hackaday reader [Louis] wrote in to call our attention to a neat project over at Kickstarter that he thought would interest his fellow readers. The AlienCortex AV is a pre-built FPGA board from [Bryan ...
Semiconductor Engineering

FPGAs Drive Deeper Into Cars

FPGAs are reaching deeper and wider inside of automobiles, playing an increasingly important role across more systems within a vehicle as the electronic content continues to grow. The role of FPGAs in ...