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 ...

When pondering your next-generation system design, you may ask yourself whether the spiraling mask costs have priced you out of the ASIC game. You'll perform the requisite analyses of performance ...

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 ...

Increasingly FPGAs are being used to perform signal-processing tasks, particularly in computationally demanding application areas such as video processing and communications. Their massive parallelism ...

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 ...

Metal Copy-28 Matches 28nm FPGA Capabilities, While Significantly Reducing Power Consumption and at a Fraction of the FPGA Unit Price Metal Copy is a low risk and efficient FPGA to ASIC conversion.

Over a third of all high-end ASIC designers now use FPGAs for prototyping 500,000-plus-gate designs. Driving this trend is the fact that a median application-specific integrated-circuit (ASIC) design ...

Over the last year we’ve had several posts about the Lattice Semiconductor iCEstick which is shown below. The board looks like an overgrown USB stick with no case, but it is really an FPGA development ...

We like the ICE40 FPGA from Lattice for two reasons: there are cheap development boards like the Icestick available for it and there are open source tools. We’ve based several tutorials on the ...

Lattice Diamond software tool for low power FPGA design receives IEC 61508 (Industrial) and ISO 26262 (Automotive) Certifications Certification of design tool accelerates time-to-market for ...

A field programmable gate array (FPGA) is a user-programmable piece of silicon constructed in very large-scale integration (VLSI) technology. The VLSI transistor-level detail is absolutely predefined ...

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 ...