Engadget

This chip plays ‘Doom’ and nothing else

The DooM-chip! It will run E1M1 till the end of times (or till power runs out, whichever comes first). Algorithm is burned into wires, LUTs and flip-flops on an #FPGA: no CPU, no opcodes, no ...
Electronic Design

Hardwired FPGA Option Shrinks Chip Size And Cost

The large chip areas consumed by high-density FPGAs tend to make the devices rather costly for volume production. As chip size grows, performance likely decreases because wire lengths and parasitic ...
Business Wire

Tachyum Sends Prodigy Chip FPGA Emulation Prototype to Manufacturing

SANTA CLARA, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Tachyum™ Inc. today announced that it has achieved another major milestone of its Prodigy Universal Processor development by releasing the netlist of its Prodigy ...
The Motley Fool

1 Small Chip Stock Outperforming AMD, Intel, and Others in a Crucial Area of AI

A battle is quietly brewing, and a small company called Lattice is secretly winning. FPGAs (field-programmable gate arrays) are a type of logic chip. They have the ability to be reprogrammed using ...
Embedded

Chip Path Design Systems debuts free online web-based FPGA/SoC design

Aiming to turn complex system on chip and FPGA development into more of a high level “cut-and-paste” process Chip Path Design Systems has just gone on line with its vendor neutral portal for design, ...
Geeky Gadgets

Kryptor FPGA one-chip hardware security module

Developers and engineers looking for a one chip hardware security module may be interested in the new Kryptor FPGA created by Skudo OÜ and now available to purchase from the Crowd Supply website. The ...
EDN

Sky-rocketing chip prices? Not with embedded FPGA (eFPGA)

Today’s chip design market has become extremely competitive and when you add on the rising cost of semiconductor manufacturing, it’s no wonder why the embedded FPGA (eFPGA) market is taking off. In ...
EDN

FPGA transceiver test goes on-chip through Windows

New Analysis Environment for Multi-Gigabit Transceivers in Virtex-4 and Virtex-5 Platforms Delivers Ease-of-Use and Productivity Boost to System Designers The new tool will be used by design teams in ...
Hackaday

Mithro Runs Down Open Source FPGA Toolchains

Tim [Mithro] Ansell has a lot to tell you about the current state of open FPGA tooling: 115 slides in 25 minutes if you’re counting. His SymbiFlow project aims to be the GCC of FPGA toolchains: ...
PC World

Intel looks beyond x86, puts 64-bit ARM processor in new FPGA chip

It seems like the chip war between Intel and ARM is slowly winding down, at least for the time being. Intel for decades has doggedly sworn by chips based on its homegrown x86 architecture, but the ...
Semiconductor Engineering

On-Chip FPGA: The “Other” Compute Resource

When system companies discuss processing requirements for their next generation products, the typical discussion invariably leads to: what should the processor ...