Category Archives: FPGA Design

Intel Acquires Omnitek, Strengthens FPGA Video and Vision Offering

17/04/2019, hardwarebee

Intel Corporation today announced the acquisition of Omnitek, a leading provider of optimized video and vision FPGA IP solutions. Omnitek’s technology enables customized high-performance vision and artificial intelligence (AI) inferencing capabilities on FPGAs for customers across a range of end markets. Omnitek’s IP addresses demanding application requirements in areas such

Overview of Lookup Tables (LUT) in FPGA Design

17/04/2019, hardwarebee

FPGAs are reconfigurable chips that are made up of individual logic blocks, each of which is composed of a flip flop and a Lookup Table (LUT).
 

 
You might have heard of the Lookup table (LUT) being referred to here and there and wondered what it does. if you

Quick Overview to FPGA Architecture

04/03/2019, hardwarebee

More and more companies are using FPGAs as a key component in their electronic product. If you are reading this article, you are probably interested in learning more about FPGA architecture.
 
So, let us dive into the very basics of FPGA architecture.
 
What is an FPGA?
 
An FPGA,

FPGA vs GPU, What to Choose?

27/02/2019, hardwarebee

Whenever you are starting a new project, one of the first steps is to determine what technologies you will be needing in order to start the development process, knowing that you will meet the target cost and performance. In fact, today there are several technologies to choose from, but as an

The Ultimate Guide to FPGA Design Flow

17/02/2019, hardwarebee

This article describes the entire FPGA design flow along with the various steps required in designing an FPGA — from the very beginning to the stage where the design can be upload to the FPGA. But before that, let’s first introduce the FPGA technology very quickly.
 
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Top 10 FPGA Advantages

10/02/2019, hardwarebee

FPGAs or Field Programmable Gate Arrays are semiconductor chips which are exactly as the name suggests – gate arrays that be configured in the field by the designer based on their needs. It consists of many configurable logic blocks which can be programmed based on what functions the designer requires

FPGA vs. CPU – What is the difference

04/02/2019, hardwarebee

So, you need to design a digital circuit, but you are not sure whether to choose FPGA vs CPU. In some cases, you can implement the exact same functionality using a CPU or an FPGA but not at the same cost and speed.
 
This article will help you understand the

Hardent and Xilinx Collaborate to Deliver Complete 8K Ready DisplayPort 1.4 IP Subsyste

01/02/2019, hardwarebee

Hardent, a leading provider of video compression IP cores and Certified member of the Xilinx Alliance Program, today announced the launch of a new DisplayPort™ 1.4 IP subsystem solution developed in collaboration with Xilinx. The VESA-compliant IP subsystem combines Xilinx DisplayPort 1.4 IP and Hardent VESA Display Stream Compression (DSC)

The Ultimate Guide to FPGA Clock

30/01/2019, hardwarebee

Field Programmable Gate Arrays or FPGAs in short, have become one of the most popular choices among digital engineers, having already taking a big share of the market among microprocessors and ASICs. Not only do FPGAs offer an affordable and relatively less expensive alternative to these other traditionally used embedded

Xilinx Technology to Power Baidu Brain Edge AI Applications

18/01/2019, hardwarebee

Xilinx (NASDAQ: XLNX), the leader in adaptive and intelligent computing, today announced that the newly unveiled EdgeBoard, Baidu’s edge acceleration computing solution is enabled by Xilinx. The EdgeBoard is a turn-key solution which is available fully configured directly from Baidu. It can also be configured and customized as part of the