Electronic Design

Solving the FPGA DC Power Problem

FPGAs are a popular choice among engineers for digital design in a wide variety of applications. They’re an alternative to microcontroller design, which requires high speed in a dedicated function. In ...
EDN

MCU+FPGA problems? Here are two solutions

Atmel and XMOS are on opposite end of the alphabet, and they have opposite approaches to solving the problems with MCU+FPGA combos. Here's the problem: embedded developers love MCUs because they are ...
Nature

FPGA Placement and Optimization Techniques

Field-Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs) remain at the forefront of modern electronic design, owing to their inherent reconfigurability and cost-effectiveness. Recent advances in placement and ...
EDN

FPGA tool bottleneck stalls HPC

Santa Cruz, Calif. — Gregg Cooke, a director in the emerging-technologies investigation team at a large investment bank in Chicago, is not your typical user of FPGA design tools. But he's ...