Electronics Weekly

IP block secures FPGAs with one external IC

Protecting against IP theft, and to prevent contract manufacture hardware counterfeiting, ‘FPGA Lock’ from Nial Stewart Developments is an intellectual property block for FPGAs that communicates with ...
Design-Reuse

M2000 starts offering IP cores and tools that marry ASIC and FPGA design

San Jose, Calif. - More than a few chip companies have tried their hand at embedding blocks of FPGA logic into otherwise-hardwired ASIC devices. Startup M2000 says it wants to be the first to make a ...
Design-Reuse

Mapping LMS Adaptive Filter IP Core to Multiplier-Array FPGA Architecture for High Channel-Density VOIP Line Echo Cancellation

The LMS adaptive filter is the main functional block in high channel-density line echo cancellers for VOIP. In this paper, we describe an LMS adaptive FIR filter IP and estimate its performance when ...
EDN

An FPGA-to-ASIC case study for refining smart meter design

Many embedded system designs are first implemented using FPGAs. This may be for quicker prototyping or to provide a platform for software development. Sometimes, the FPGAs will remain in the design ...