Category Archives: FPGA Design

FPGA Design Flow – An Introduction

02/04/2018, hardwarebee

 The design flow of Field Programmable Gate Arrays (or FPGAs) consists of several steps that must work in unison for proper function. The steps consist of the following:
 

Design Entry
Logic Synthesis
Physical Synthesis
Verification
Implementation

 
Each step must be followed and verified to ensure that

A Brief History of Altera

29/03/2018, hardwarebee

The Altera Corporation is a FPGA company that creates FPGA and PLDs along with development software. The primary products produced by Altera today include the following:
 

FPGAs: Arria, Cyclone, and Stratix
CPLDs: Max Series
Enpirion PowerSoC DC-DC Power Solutions
Quartus II Design Software

 
Today, Altera is

A Brief History of Xilinx

29/03/2018, hardwarebee

Xilinx is an amazing FPGA company with an impressive track record of success. Xilinx creates, develops, and offers FPGA devices that are programmable along with software that work in conjunction to their main products. Xilinx is the leading supplier of FPGAs in the world.
 

 
Founding
 
In

Plunify, Tencent Cloud Team Up to Offer FPGA Workflows Acceleration in the Cloud

18/03/2018, hardwarebee

Plunify®, a leading design optimization technology provider, today announced immediate availability of the Plunify Cloud client in the Tencent Cloud field programmable gate array (FPGA) Ecosystem for designers.
 
Plunify Cloud client is an interface to the Xilinx Vivado™ design suite for on-demand development, optimization, testing and deployment of FPGA

Xilinx Technology Enables 5G for Hyper-Connected Urban Society at University of Bristol Smart Internet Lab

18/03/2018, hardwarebee

University of Bristol, Smart Internet Lab, leverages Xilinx® (NASDAQ: XLNX) silicon technology to deploy and demonstrate the world’s first end-to-end 5G urban network.  This flexible and programmable 5G network testbed consisting of 5G NR radio heads connected to the 5G virtualized baseband pool using multiple protocols with dynamic low latency aggregation and

Efinix™ Releases Trion™ Programmable Platform

03/03/2018, hardwarebee

Efinix™, an innovator in programmable product platforms and technology, today announced the release of its Trion™ programmable platform. The Trion platform was built using Efinix’s Quantum™ programmable technology, comprising logic, routing, embedded memory and DSP blocks. The first eight FPGAs in the Trion platform are built on SMIC’s (Semiconductor Manufacturing

Choosing FPGA Design Services Company

01/03/2018, hardwarebee

In 2009 I applied for a job in San Diego. The job required hands on technical and commercial skills and therefore the interview was a bit tricky.
 
One very difficult question in the interview related to estimating different things. They asked me to estimate the number of Piano Tuning

Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) History

23/02/2018, hardwarebee

By the 1980s, the FPGA industry has been born through the established programmable logic devices (PLD) and the programmable read only memory (PROM). Unlike PLD and PROM which had to be hard-wired programmed during manufacturing, FPGA allowed the programming to happen later in the process, even by the consumer, this

Xilinx CEO Moshe Gavrielov Announces Retirement

11/01/2018, hardwarebee

Xilinx, Inc. (NASDAQ: XLNX) the global market leader of All Programmable semiconductor products, today announced that chief executive officer and president Moshe Gavrielov has informed the company’s board of directors that he is retiring from the company and the board, effective January 28, 2018.  Gavrielov’s decision to step down from his operational role will