Hackaday

MyHDL Python Programming Option For FPGA

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 ...
EDN

Tools make MCU + FPGA programming a snap

Embedded designers have implemented heterogeneous architectures since the advent of commercially viable FPGAs. Initially, FPGAs acted primarily as glue logic for an interface between processing ...
Hackaday

Mithro Runs Down Open Source FPGA Toolchains

Tim [Mithro] Ansell has a lot to tell you about the current state of open FPGA tooling: 115 slides in 25 minutes if you’re counting. His SymbiFlow project aims to be the GCC of FPGA toolchains: ...
EDN

JTAG chip eases multi-board structural test, FPGA config, in-field updates

Grappling with testability? Then check out what intellectual property vendor Intellitech Corp. (Durham, New Hampshire) is dishing up. The company now offers a unique IEEE-1149.1-compliant test and ...
ZDNet

Academics develop super-fast 1,000 core FPGA chip

Academics have created a field programmable gate array chip with the functionality of 1,000 distinct cores for super-fast image processing. On Tuesday Glasgow University announced that academics led ...
Business Wire

Tachyum Sends Prodigy Chip FPGA Emulation Prototype to Manufacturing

SANTA CLARA, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Tachyum™ Inc. today announced that it has achieved another major milestone of its Prodigy Universal Processor development by releasing the netlist of its Prodigy ...
Semiconductor Engineering

A Chip For All Seasons

FPGAs are showing up in more designs and in more markets, and as they get included in more systems they are becoming much more complex. A decade ago, the key markets for FPGAs were industrial, medical ...