As system design companies deal with the trials of today's economic environment, they face the dual challenges of finding ways to improve the efficiency of their product development and manufacturing ...

SANTA CRUZ, Calif. — Mentor Graphics Corp. will roll out a tool this week that it says will enable concurrent FPGA and board design. I/O Designer lets those designing printed-circuit boards ...

VHDL and Verilog are hardware description languages, used to describe and define logic circuits. They’re typically used to design ASICs and to program FPGAs, essentially using software to define ...

Xilinx delivers big, fast FPGAs pushing 28nm technology (see Xilinx Unifies FPGA Line). So how do you improve on the cutting edge? How about stacking a bunch of FPGA slice together. That is what ...

The MKR Vidor-4000 FPGA is the latest market entry of the Arduino boards. Since its introduction in 2011, the Arduino low-cost electronics prototyping platform has allowed engineers, designers, ...

The key part of the FPGA design is to determine the voltage requirements needed and the current requirements of each voltage rail. The major FPGA vendors offer comprehensive calculators that take into ...

When I was a kid, my best friend Jeremy lived just around the corner. I have an old black-and-white picture in my archive. It’s of me and Jeremy when we were 6 years old. We were sitting in a tree, ...