EDN

FPGA design tool bypasses VHDL coding

CoDeveloper, a C language design tool for Altera Nios-based and Xilinx MicroBlaze-based programmable platforms, allows creation of a complete hardware/software application with no need to write VHDL ...
Hackaday

Slice Your Next FPGA Design

A recent trend has been to convert high-level constructs into FPGA code like Verilog or VHDL. Silice goes the other way: it converts very hardware-specific concepts to Verilog and aims to be a more ...
Electronic Design

Facing Up To Today’s FPGA Verification Challenges

Fifteen years ago verification of FPGA designs was easy but as the size of FPGAs has increased so have the verification challenges, Jerry Kaczynski explains. Today it is not unusual for FPGA users to ...
Design-Reuse

New Xilinx Kintex-7 FPGA Connectivity Kit Dramatically Increases Productivity for Designing High Bandwidth Applications

SAN JOSE, Calif., June 28, 2012 -- Xilinx Inc. today announced the availability of the Kintexâ„¢-7 FPGA Connectivity Kit for customers creating advanced serial I/O designs across a broad range of high ...
Design-Reuse

Automatic C-to-VHDL testbench generation shortens FPGA development time

Verifying behavior early and often has become critical with FPGAs. Newer generations of FPGAs have gate counts that rival the largest custom ASICs of five years ago. This fact, coupled with the broad ...
HotHardware

AMD Patent Reveals Hybrid CPU-FPGA Design That Could Be Enabled By Xilinx Tech

While they often aren’t as great as CPUs on their own, FPGAs can do a wonderful job accelerating specific tasks. Whether it's accelerating acting as a fabric for wide-scale datacenter services ...
Electronic Design

Xilinx Enters FPGA System-on-Module Arena

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 ...
EDN

Xilinx Launches First High-Density, Rad-Hard Reconfigurable FPGA For Space Applications

SAN JOSE, Calif., July 19 /PRNewswire/ — Xilinx, Inc. (Nasdaq: XLNX) today launched the industry's first high-density, rad-hard reconfigurable FPGA for withstanding radiation environments encountered ...
New Electronics

Xilinx unveils 20nm space-grade FPGA for space applications

Xilinx has announced the industry’s first 20nm space-grade FPGA, delivering full radiation tolerance and ultra-high throughput and bandwidth performance for satellite and space applications. The 20nm ...
Business Wire

Xilinx ‘Lifts Off’ with Launch of Industry’s First 20nm Space-Grade FPGA for Satellite and Space Applications

SAN JOSE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Xilinx, Inc. (NASDAQ: XLNX), the leader in adaptive and intelligent computing, today announced the industry’s first 20-nanometer (nm) space-grade FPGA, delivering ...