Semiconductor Engineering

New Embedded FPGA Compiler Maximizes IP Implementation Efficiency

When designing IP for system-on-chip (SoC) and application-specific integrated circuit (ASIC) implementations, IP designers strive for perfection. Optimal engineering often yields the smallest die ...
Design-Reuse

FPGA Implementation of DLX Microprocessor With WISHBONE SoC Bus

DLX is an open source microprocessor, it’s free and it has never been implemented in a commercial ASIC (Application Specific Integrated Circuit) design. The objective of this project is to use the ...
RF Globalnet

Altera Introduces Next-Generation Agilex 9 Direct RF-Series SoC FPGA To Power The Future Of High-Performance RF Systems

Altera announced engineering samples of its next-generation Agilex 9 Direct RF-Series SoC FPGAs, delivering 40% greater compute density for aerospace, defense, and communications applications.
Electronic Design

Design Tool Streamlines SoC FPGA Application Creation

Xilinx’s SDSoC represents a major shift in support for SoC FPGAs. It opens FPGA development to software developers without requiring a major investment in time and effort to utilize the hardware ...
Design-Reuse

Understanding FPGAs – From Architecture to SoC, RFSoC, and Embedded FPGA Technologies

One of the most crucial components of modern digital systems, field programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) provide for flexibility, parallel processing, and hardware-level acceleration. FPGAs, in contrast ...
Electronic Design

Solutions Mitigate Mixed-Signal SoC Implementation Headaches

The concept of silicon realization, as defined in the Cadence EDA360 vision paper, represents everything required to produce a system-on-a-chip (SoC) design in silicon. 1 Silicon realization addresses ...
Semiconductor Engineering

Using FPGAs For Emulation

For many years, emulators were available only to verification teams working on the largest projects in companies with deep enough pockets. Due to size rather than capabilities they were called “Big ...