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 ...

Digital systems need clocks. Today’s designs require more from clocking schemes than ever before, and it’s likely this trend will continue. Increasing power constraints have resulted in finer-grained ...

Given the technical specs of the FPGAs available to hobbyists these days, it really shouldn’t be a shock that you can ...

Many FPGA designs use an embedded processor for control. A typical solution involves the use of a soft processor such as a Nios, though FPGA SoCs with a built-in hard processor have become popular too ...

NI (National Instruments) has introduced a new generation of open, FPGA (field-programmable-gate-array)-based PXI (peripheral-component-interconnect extensions for instrumentation) modules. The ...

As FPGA die geometries shrink, larger amounts of the die can be hit by a single radiation particle, making the design more susceptible to the impact of radiation-induced errors that cause bit values ...

Researchers have developed a low-cost visible light communication (VLC) system using commercially available hardware that ...

The ever changing technology has made the world as a global village, where every part of the globe is connected with the rest through either wireless systems or physical network. The fast track ...

There is no let up in the increasing importance of software as part of the SoC development programme. Once an afterthought, software now consumes some 70% of the resources allocated to an SoC project.

Xilinx’s Zynq family has been an extremely successful system-on-chip (SoC) FPGA solution. However, as with many FPGA platforms, using this flexible solution can be especially tough when it comes to ...

There are a number of system design factors requiring consideration when implementing an FPGA processor. Some of those factors include the use of co-design, processor architectural implementation, ...