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 ...
EDN

Introducing the Integrated Circuit (IC) Design Cycle

The process of designing, manufacturing, and testing ICs is complex and exhaustive. The main contributors are the design and verification teams, IP vendors, and IC manufacturers. The process of ...
Design-Reuse

PCI Express Design Considerations -- RapidChip Platform ASIC vs. FPGA Design Efficiency

This paper describes the implementation differences of an IP core between FPGA and RapidChip® Platform ASIC technologies. By mapping the same complex, high-speed PCI Express core onto these two ...
Design-Reuse

FPGA based Complex System Designs: Methodology and Techniques

Today platform-FPGAs are fabricated in nanometer technologies with multi-million gate densities; hard/soft macros such as embedded processors, RAMs, multipliers, DSP blocks, analog cells and high ...
Electronic Design

Using AI to Design FPGA-Based Solutions

What’s new in Xilinx’s FPGA design tool? How machine learning is employed by the design tool. What’s the difference between using AI in the tool and creating a solution that uses AI? Xilinx takes ...
Electronic Design

Using An SPI Interface To Improve FPGA Routing

Using SPI interface to free FPGA routing resources is allowing over 90% utilization, fast timing closure and supports modular design approach without consequences. When doing designs with FPGA you are ...
Semiconductor Engineering

Developing High-Reliability FPGAs For DO-254

You have been developing FPGAs for a long time, and you know your designs from top to bottom. You know every interface protocol, configuration and optimization. You can visualize your timing diagram ...