Electronic Design

Design Tool Streamlines SoC FPGA Application Creation

Xilinx’s SDSoC represents a major shift in support for SoC FPGAs. It opens FPGA development to software developers without requiring a major investment in time and effort to utilize the hardware ...
Electronic Design

Free Access to Soft-Core Cortex-M Designs for Xilinx FPGA Users

There ain’t no such thing as a free lunch (TANSTAAFL), but Xilinx and Arm are making it easier to use soft-core, Cortex-M1 and Cortex-M3 platforms on Xilinx FPGAs (Fig. 1). Through an enhancement to ...
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Beginner’s Guide to Understanding FPGA Development

There are a lot of great Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) articles; however, it can be challenging to find ones written for beginners. I wrote this article to help beginners understand basic FPGA ...
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10 Ways to program your FPGA

Despite the recent push toward high level synthesis (HLS), hardware description languages (HDLs) remain king in field programmable gate array (FPGA) development. Specifically, two FPGA design ...