Electronic Design

FPGAs Ride Tools Into ASIC Territory

As their on-chip resources and gate count grow, more ASIC-like implementation flows push FPGAs into unlikely applications. When pondering your next-generation system design, you may ask yourself ...
EDN

Upgraded FPGA design tool boosts logic performance by 15%

New tool delivers an additional 15% performance improvement and up to 50% faster design closure SAN JOSE, Calif.— Xilinx, Inc. today announced the immediate availability of its next generation ...
EDN

EDA Tools for FPGAs

In an article titled EDA tools for FPGA running out of gas Mark LaPedus reports comments made by Simon Bloch, vice president and general manager of the Design and Synthesis Division for Mentor ...
Electronics Weekly

Firms tool up for FPGAs

There are reported to be hundreds of thousands of designers working with FPGAs and programmable logic – most of them using the free or very low cost tools from the device vendors. But a rapid ...
Electronics Weekly

Design tools must keep pace with FPGAs, says Xilinx exec

When the FPGA industry sets about building design tools, it has the logic designer in mind as the main user. However, with the rapid advances in device functionality, vendors now need to think “out-of ...
insideHPC

Gidel FPGA Tools Speed Development with Intel’s HLS

Today Gidel announced the availability of new development tools that take advantage of Intel’s HLS, producing a speed increase of 5x over prior development options. Intel’s High Level Synthesis (HLS) ...
Embedded

Model-based FPGA design tool quietly gains adherents

This tool is called DSP Builder Advanced Blockset (the marketing folks were obviously not at their best when naming this tool). This is a model-based design tool, meaning that design entry is ...
Electronic Design

C Tool Targets FPGA Design

The CoDeveloper Tool Suite is designed to ease a software developer's job of creating an FPGA-based solution. Impulse Accelerated Technologies' collection of C-based ...
Design-Reuse

Partial reconfiguration in FPGA rapid prototyping tools

FPGA rapid prototyping tools are greatly useful at the time of designing and testing complex signal processing systems, due to their graphic programming environment and the possibility they offer to ...
Semiconductor Engineering

FPGA And System Designs Get To Market Faster Leveraging ASIC-Proven Analysis Tools

Digital systems need clocks. Today’s designs require more from clocking schemes than ever before, and it’s likely this trend will continue. Increasing power constraints have resulted in finer-grained ...
Design-Reuse

Synopsys steps up efforts in FPGA design tools

SAN MATEO, Calif. — Once thought of as paying only lip service to FPGA tools, Synopsys Inc. is now acting like a serious player in high-end FPGA design. The company recently announced it has developed ...
SiliconANGLE

Intel adds new programming tools to speed adoption of FPGA custom chips for AI

Intel Corp. has spent a lot of effort pushing the concept of its Field Programmable Gate Arrays, which can be used to accelerate various computing tasks such as artificial intelligence and machine ...