FPGA

One of the best ways to learn about new technology is to have it explained by the people that designed it.  From there, working through guided exercises and examples will reinforce the concepts as well as give you a clear understanding of…

Modern music is leaning more and more heavily on electronics. It's a noticeable trend that as technology as improved, and become more widely available, creative types have found novel uses for it in different fields, such as the…

Adafruit makes it easy to quickly start a project or test out a concept with the DE0-Nano FPGA development kit. This kit comes with the evaluation board featuring the Altera Cyclone IV FPGA (Field Programmable Gate Array) and two CDs…

Profiling the top FPGA companies for 2013, Altera and Xilinx continue to dominate the market for general purpose programmable logic. These two companies comprise approximately 90% market share (Xilinx 47%, Altera 41%) in 2012 with…

This article provides a primer on programmable logic to explain the technology, terms and functionality. The original programmable logic devices were commercially available to the general market in the early 1980's.  These started…

Released in March, 2013 Lattice announces iCE40 FGPA for ultra low power applications is available for production builds. The iCE40 FPGA in the LP384 package with a 2.5 mm x 2.5 mm micro-BGA footprint  is the smallest member of the…

Achronix Is Latest FPGA Vendor to announce a new high density FPGA (Field Programmable Gate Array) chip. Their new family of Speedster22i HD devices have an impressive 1.7 million effective LUT (Look Up Table) cells with 138 megabits…