BizTech

What Is an FPGA? Understanding Field-Programmable Gate Arrays

Ernie Smith is a former contributor to BizTech, an old-school blogger who specializes in side projects, and a tech history nut who researches vintage operating systems for fun. When it comes to major ...
The Next Platform

What is The Next FPGA Platform?

The Next Platform has been tracking momentum with FPGAs over the last several years with particular emphasis on the role programmable devices will continue to play in application acceleration as well ...
Hackaday

Learn FPGA Fast With Hackaday’s FPGA Boot Camp

FPGAs have gone from being a niche product for people with big budgets to something that every electronics experimenter ought to have in their toolbox. I am always surprised at how many people I meet ...
Hackaday

Gigantic FPGA In A Game Boy Form Factor, 2019 Supercon Badge Is A Hardware Siren Song

Look upon this conference badge and kiss your free time goodbye. The 2019 Hackaday Superconference badge is an ECP5 FPGA running a RISC-V core in a Game Boy form factor complete with cartridge slot ...
Android Authority

FPGA vs software emulation for retro gaming: We've tested both and here are the big differences

When it comes to retro gaming, it can be hard to get your hands on original hardware. Even if you can, most retro consoles don’t jive with modern televisions, so the experience will be noticeably ...
EDN

What! How big did you say that FPGA is? (Team-design for FPGAs)

Field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) have become incredibly capable with respect to handling large amounts of logic, memory, digital-signal-processor (DSP), fast I/O, and a plethora of other ...
The Next Platform

A Peek Inside That Intel Xeon-FPGA Hybrid Chip

Last week at the Fujitsu Forum in Tokyo, Lisa Spelman, who is general manager of Xeon products and Data Center Marketing at Intel, did a soft announcement of the hybrid Xeon CPU-Arria 10 FPGA hybrid ...
CRN

Intel Revives Altera Name For Stand-Alone FPGA Company

Two months after Intel spun off the Programmable Solutions Group into a stand-alone FPGA company, it reveals it’s taking its original Altera name and chasing a market opportunity exceeding $55 billion ...
EDN

Today’s ASIC Designer is the Future’s FPGA Boomer

Baby boomers serve as the perfect analogy to what I see happening in the electronics industry. It is swiftly moving away from its heavy dependence on the ASIC to the field programmable gate array ...
Semiconductor Engineering

Is An FPGA IP Business Model Finally Possible?

The IP-SoC conference panel, “IPs on FPGA: Strategy and Vision,” was a learning experience for me. Coming from the software and silicon/ASIC/ASSP worlds, I thought I had a pretty comprehensive view of ...
Seeking Alpha

AMD Vs. Intel: Battle For FPGA Leadership

Given AMD's Xilinx acquisition, questions arise about who will hold FPGA leadership going forward. Intel Agilex FPGA achieves 30-50% higher performance and 2x performance per watt than Xilinx Versal.