Field-Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs) look like very complex integrated circuits. Performing bespoke functions and having engineers programming them in strange languages puts many people off. This is ...

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 ...

This Design Idea describes a VHDL implementation of a PCI 2.2-bus arbiter (Figure 1). Any PCI system may have one or more PCI-master devices. Most devices can behave as target hosts, but one must be a ...

MyHDL is a Python module that brings FPGA programming into the Python environment. [Christopher Felton] tipped us off about a simple tutorial he just finished that gives an overview of how the module ...

High-level synthesis to the rescue? You might be surprised at how hardware designers are getting new value from HLS when designing systems with FPGAs. The numbers of applications using FPGAs are on ...

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 ...

Chip giant Intel has been talking about CPU-FPGA compute complexes for so long that it is hard to remember sometimes that its hybrid Xeon-Arria compute unit, which puts a Xeon server chip and a ...

Every new hardware device that offers some kind of benefit compared to legacy devices faces the task of overcoming the immense inertia that is imparted to a platform by the software that runs upon it.

The numbers of applications using FPGAs are on the rise. They have long been used for avionics and DSP-based applications, but are finding many new applications in which their flexible and ...