New Electronics

FPGA logic architecture extended

Flex Logix has extended its core FPGA logic architecture to include block RAM (BRAM) and DSP cores. According to the company, adding low latency memory and signal processing capabilities broadens the ...
EDN

Connecting Custom Peripherals to AXI Using a BRAM Interface for FPGA Design

In this column, we briefly introduce AXI, we examine why FPGA designers would use AXI, and we present some of the pros and cons associated with using AXI The Advanced eXtensible Interface, or AXI, is ...
Nature

Content Addressable Memory Architectures for Field Programmable Gate Arrays

Content Addressable Memory (CAM) architectures provide a powerful approach to high-speed data searches by comparing search data against an entire memory in parallel, rather than relying on sequential ...
Embedded

Moving from FPGA to ASIC for your AI chip? Here’s what you should know

Perhaps you are designing an embedded inference engine for edge computing. Or you are taking the next step in automotive vision processing. Or maybe you have an insight that can challenge Nvidia and ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...