EDN

VHDL 101 – Introduction

Field-Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs) look like very complex integrated circuits. Performing bespoke functions and having engineers programming them in strange languages puts many people off. This is ...
EDN

VHDL program enables PCI-bus-arbiter core

This Design Idea describes a VHDL implementation of a PCI 2.2-bus arbiter (Figure 1). Any PCI system may have one or more PCI-master devices. Most devices can behave as target hosts, but one must be a ...
Design-Reuse

PROGRAMMABLE LOGIC: Compiler turns FPGAs into supercomputers

Santa Cruz, Calif. — Scientists, engineers and software developers who know nothing about chip design can now compile high-performance computing applications into FPGAs, according to startup ...
Electronic Design

11 Myths About High-Level-Synthesis Techniques for Programming FPGAs

High-level synthesis to the rescue? You might be surprised at how hardware designers are getting new value from HLS when designing systems with FPGAs. The numbers of applications using FPGAs are on ...
Design-Reuse

Partial reconfiguration in FPGA rapid prototyping tools

FPGA rapid prototyping tools are greatly useful at the time of designing and testing complex signal processing systems, due to their graphic programming environment and the possibility they offer to ...
Hackaday

MyHDL Python Programming Option For FPGA

MyHDL is a Python module that brings FPGA programming into the Python environment. [Christopher Felton] tipped us off about a simple tutorial he just finished that gives an overview of how the module ...