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AMD Patent Reveals Hybrid CPU-FPGA Design That Could Be Enabled By Xilinx Tech

While they often aren’t as great as CPUs on their own, FPGAs can do a wonderful job accelerating specific tasks. Whether it's accelerating acting as a fabric for wide-scale datacenter services ...
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 ...
CU Boulder News & Events

ECEA 5362 FPGA Softcore Processors and IP Acquisition

The objective of this course is to learn how to develop, program, and use Softcore Processors with associated IP integration. To accomplish this, the Nios II Softcore Processor from Intel Altera is ...
Semiconductor Engineering

Applying Machine Learning to EDA, FPGA Design Automation Tools

A technical paper titled “Application of Machine Learning in FPGA EDA Tool Development” was published by researchers at the University of Texas Dallas. “With the recent advances in hardware ...
TweakTown

Ubitium announces 'universal processor': combines CPU, GPU, DSP, FPGA in a single RISC-V chip

TL;DR: Ubitium is developing a Universal Processor that combines CPU, GPU, DSP, and FPGA into a single chip, aiming to revolutionize the market by reusing every transistor for multiple functions.
The Next Platform

Giving SmartNICs Bigger FPGA And CPU Brains

The lines between a server, a SmartNIC, and a Data Processing Unit, or DPU, are getting fuzzier, and the good news is that definitions do not matter nearly as much as use cases. And with its so-called ...
EDN

FPGA vs. DSP Design Reliability and Maintenance

Digital signal processing (DSP) underpins modern wireless and wireline communications, medical diagnostic equipment, military systems, audio and video equipment, and countless other products, becoming ...
Ars Technica

New CPU design

We don't have a perpetual general thread, so.... This video sounds kind of interesting. From what it sounds like, there are a number of circuits (one for each operation) on tiles in the CPU (not like ...
CU Boulder News & Events

ECEA 5363 FPGA Capstone: Building FPGA Projects

The objective of this course is provide a platform to get hands-on experience designing FPGA circuits and systems. To this end the DE10-Lite from TerAsic featuring the Intel Altera MAX10 FPGA is ...
Electronic Design

Reap the Processing Power of FPGA-Integrated SDRs

How FPGAs allow for the implementation of a reconfigurable SDR that’s scalable and can adapt to an unlimited number of transmission standards and techniques. How FPGAs are programmed. Important ...
Electronic Design

Verification Techniques For FPGA Designs

With the increasing size and complexity of FPGA devices, there is a need for more efficient verification methods. Timing simulation can be the most revealing verification method; however, it is often ...