EDN

FPGA Soft Processor Design Considerations

With so many available processor design options design teams must make the difficult decision to choose the solution that best fits their specific project requirements, while supporting extended ...
Electronic Design

Embedded: Real-Time Operating System Supports FPGA Soft Processor

ThreadX from Express Logic now works with the Xilinx Embedded Development Kit 6.1i (EDK) and supports the Xilinx 32-bit MicroBlaze soft processor. The MicroBlaze processor uses a Harvard-style RISC ...
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 ...
Business Wire

Micrium RTOS Kernels Support Xilinx’ All Programmable Zynq UltraScale+ MPSoC

WESTON, Fla.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Micrium today announced commercial real time operating system (RTOS) support for Xilinx’ new All Programmable Zynq® UltraScale+™ MPSoC. Micrium’s µC/OS-II®, µC/OS-III® ...
Semiconductor Engineering

FPGA Design Tradeoffs Getting Tougher

FPGAs are getting larger, more complex, and significantly harder to verify and debug. In the past, FPGAs were considered a relatively quick and simple way to get to market before committing to the ...
EDN

Kintex UltraScale FPGAs for space applications

Last April at ESA’s SEFUW conference, I discussed the first design-in experiences of Xilinx’s next FPGA for space applications, the 20 nm Kintex UltraScale XQRKU060. The new space-grade device will ...