EDN

A practical approach to reusing HDL code in FPGA designs

From the very first day that you learn a new hardware description language (HDL), you reuse code. Initially, this might involve copying an example and modifying it in order to learn and expand your ...
EDN

How to build reliable FPGA memory interface controllers without writing your own RTL code!

As FPGA designers strive to achieve higher performance while meeting critical timing margins, one consistently vexing performance bottleneck is the memory interface. Today's more advanced FPGAs ...
Hackaday

JTAG Dongle Pushes Code To FPGA After Bootup

This gnarly beast has near-magical qualities. [Sprite_TM] patched it together as a dongle which attaches to a JTAG header (we’re fairly certain this is not a standard footprint for that interface ...
Semiconductor Engineering

Challenges In Using HLS For FPGA Design

High-level synthesis (HLS) tools, which transform C/C++ source code to Verilog/VHDL, have been commercially available for over 15 years. HLS tools from FPGA vendors and EDA companies promise improved ...
Design-Reuse

"Lattice Diamond" FPGA Design Software Heralds New Era for Low Power, Cost Sensitive FPGA ...

HILLSBORO, OR, Jun 28, 2010 -- Lattice Semiconductor Corporation (NASDAQ: LSCC) today announced Version 1.0 of its Lattice Diamond(TM) FPGA design software, the new flagship design environment for ...
Design-Reuse

A practical approach to reusing HDL code in FPGA designs

From the very first day that you learn a new hardware description language (HDL), you reuse code. Initially, this might involve copying an example and modifying it in order to learn and expand your ...
Electronic Design

Programming FPGA Systems: Code Conversion

Code Conversion On the left side below is the ANSI-C software code that makes the call to the C Hough function. The input to the Hough function is the image to be processed (TileIn). The output of the ...
TechRepublic

Simulation and Optimization of VHDL Code for FPGA-Based Design Using Simulink

Simulations and prototyping have been a very important part of the electronics industry since a very long time. In recent years, FPGA’s have become increasingly important and have found their way into ...
Electronic Design

Best practices for user-programmable FPGA instrumentation

Field programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) are used extensively in today’s electronic assemblies and test engineers are also choosing to incorporate user-programmable FPGA instrumentation as part of their ...