Embedded

Tackle team-based FPGA design

You see them at almost every user seminar or industry trade show workshop: the Methodology Managers from XYZ Corporation, who describe the system they use to help the company make sense of the ...
Electronic Design

Take The FPGA Plunge

FPGAs are expensive... and hard to use... and too slow... and difficult to program... and hard to debug... and they draw too much power... and require register-transfer-level (RTL) wizards. That’s the ...
Design-Reuse

Do's and Don'ts of Architecting the Right FPGA Solution for DSP Design

Finally a Practical "Do and Don't" primer on architecting FPGA solutions for DSP design. With more do's than don’ts, the article is a down-to-basics look at how to avoid the pitfalls and realize ...
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 ...
EDN

Is FPGA a simpler puzzle for ASIC designers?

Over the last 10 years, FPGA vendors have made great strides in overcoming the shortcomings of FPGAs and taking share from the ASIC market. In the late 1990s, FPGA vendors increased the capacity of ...