Hackaday

Taking The Pulse (Width Modulation) Of An FPGA

Use the FPGA as a CPU which allows you to add predefined I/O blocks Build custom peripherals for an external CPU from predefined I/O blocks Build custom logic circuitry from scratch Projects that ...
Design-Reuse

Capturing a UART Design in MyHDL & Testing It in an FPGA

The universal asynchronous receiver/transmitter (UART) is an old friend to embedded systems engineers. It's probably the first communications protocol that we learn in college. In this article, we ...
Geeky Gadgets

STEPFPGA FPGA development board with cloud-based IDE

The STEPFPGA MXO2Core is a miniature FPGA development core board designed based on Lattice MXO2-4000 FPGA chip. “This versatile FPGA chip combines some great advantages of FPGAs and CPLDs, the ...
Hackaday

Intel Altera

Being able to communicate between a host computer and a project is often a key requirement, and for FPGA projects that is easily done by adding a submodule like a UART. A Universal Asynchronous ...
Electronics Weekly

Xilinx expands FPGA range

Xilinx has expanded its portfolio of no-fee intellectual property (IP) cores for its FPGAs. The 10/100 Ethernet MAC Lite, single precision floating-point unit, industry standard UART (Universal ...
Semiconductor Engineering

Micro FPGAs And Embedded FPGAs

When people hear “FPGA” they think “big, expensive, power hungry.” But it doesn’t need to be that way. Renesas has announced their Forge FPGA family. Details are at their website and in one of the ...