EDN

Altera’s Nios II FPGA soft processor core now available for standard cell ASIC designs

This is rather interesting. Over the years, FPGA vendors have either developed their own microprocessor cores (for example the Nios from Altera and the MicroBlaze from Xilinx) or they've ported ...
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 ...
TechRepublic

SPI Flash Memory Configuration in ZYNQ FPGA Using Microprocessor

FPGA (Field Programmable Gate Array) becoming more popular, many designers want to reduce their component count and increase flexibility. To accomplish both of these goals, a microprocessor already ...
Electronic Design

Custom Blocks Fortify eFPGAs While Shrinking ASIC/SoC Die Size

For more than three decades, system-level designers have employed FPGAs for multitude of reasons, but the two main factors are performance and flexibility. Many tasks executed in software running on a ...
Semiconductor Engineering

Are FPGAs More Secure Than Processors?

Security concerns often focus on software being executed on processors. But not all electronic functionality runs in software. FPGAs provide another way to do work, and they can be more secure than ...
Business Wire

Tachyum Unveils Prodigy Universal Processor FPGA Emulation Prototype

LAS VEGAS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Tachyum™ Inc. today announced the upcoming availability of its Prodigy Universal Processor prototype, built using field-programmable gate array (FPGA) emulation boards. The ...
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.
ExtremeTech

Intel unveils new Xeon chip with integrated FPGA, touts 20x performance boost

Late yesterday, Intel quietly announced one of the biggest ever changes to its chip lineup: It will soon offer a new type of Xeon CPU with an integrated FPGA. This new Xeon+FPGA chip will fit in the ...
Business Wire

Mixel MIPI D-PHY IP Integrated Into Hercules Microelectronics Award-Winning FPGA/Processor

SAN JOSE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Mixel ®, a leading provider of mixed-signal intellectual property (IP), and Hercules Microelectronics (HME), a China-based developer of programmable FPGA cores, ...
PC World

Intel’s first processor with performance-boosting FPGA to ship early next year

Intel will ship its first Xeon server chip with a programmable FPGA from Altera in the first quarter next year, some 18 months after announcing work on the product. FPGAs, or field programmable gate ...
ExtremeTech

Microfluidic cooling yields huge performance benefits in FPGA processors

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Nasdaq

Microchip Unveils Family Details and Opens Early Access Program for RISC-V Enabled Low-Power PolarFire SoC FPGA Family

BANGKOK, Dec. 12, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- RISC-V Summit -- The trend towards compute intensive gateways and edge devices is driving the integration of traditional deterministic control applications with ...