Category Archives: FPGA Design

Xilinx Powers Baidu’s Production-Ready ACU-Advanced Platform for Automated Valet Parking

23/12/2019, hardwarebee

CHANGSHA, China, Dec. 19, 2019 – (Baidu 2019 Apollo Ecosystem Event) – Xilinx, Inc. (NASDAQ: XLNX), the leader in adaptive and intelligent computing, today announced that the Xilinx® Automotive (XA) Zynq® UltraScale+™ MPSoC (XAZU5EV) is powering Baidu’s production-ready Apollo Computing Unit (ACU)-Advanced platform for Automated Valet Parking (AVP), the industry’s first dedicated computing solution

Aldec’s Latest Embedded Development Platform is First to Feature Largest PolarFire and SmartFusion2 FPGAs on a Single Board

27/11/2019, hardwarebee

Henderson, USA – November 26, 2019 – Aldec, Inc., a pioneer in mixed HDL language simulation and hardware-assisted verification for FPGA and ASIC designs, has launched the HES-MPF500-M2S150 Development Kit, to aid engineers in the development of FPGA-based embedded systems that will use devices from either or both of Microchip’s PolarFire or SmartFusion2

Diamond Design Software from Lattice Semiconductor Enables Enhanced Security Features for MachXO3D FPGAs

17/11/2019, hardwarebee

HILLSBORO, OR – November 14, 2019 – Lattice Semiconductor Corporation (NASDAQ: LSCC), the low power programmable leader, today announced immediate availability of a new software release (SP1) for its powerful Lattice Diamond® 3.11 design software that includes new capabilities to access the MachXO3D™ FPGA’s security features that protect system firmware against data and

Efinix Rolls Out Trion T120 FPGAs

14/11/2019, hardwarebee

Efinix®, an innovator in programmable product platforms and technologies, today announced the rollout of Trion® T120 FPGAs, featuring a small, high-density fabric, a hardened DDR memory controller and hardened MIPI CSI-2 and PHY interfaces.

“The T120 FPGAs demonstrate how the Quantum architecture scales for high density,” said Efinix Co-founder,

Abaco Announces Industry’s First 6U VPX Solution to Feature New Xilinx RF System-on-Chip Technology

08/11/2019, hardwarebee

baco Systems today announced the industry’s first 6U VPX implementation of the transformational Xilinx® 16×16 RF system-on-chip (RFSoC) technology combined with the Xilinx Ultrascale+™ FPGA with High Bandwidth Memory (HBM). The VP460 Direct RF Processing System is aligned with the SOSA™ standard to deliver the cost-effective interoperability required by the US Air

Understanding FPGA Programming and Design Flow

28/10/2019, hardwarebee

 
This article will brief you on how to perform a full hardware implementation on FPGA. However, before we get to the FPGA design flow, let’s discuss first why you would choose to use an FPGA.
 
There are 2 ways in which you can develop chips: ASIC (Application-Specific Integrated

Xilinx FPGA Products and Data Sheets 1985-Today

23/10/2019, hardwarebee

In 1990 and not so far from Tel Aviv, I started my first FPGA design. It was a new XC3090 FPGA from Xilinx.
 
Until then, I was using EPLDs (mostly Altera’s EP900) in several projects and was fascinated by the fact that I can replace several EPLDs with a

iWave Systems Ultra-High-Performance FPGA Platforms for AI/ML accelerated Edge Computing in IoT applications

14/10/2019, hardwarebee

With the advent of IoT and the proliferation of connected embedded devices, one of the biggest challenges in developing competitive IoT solutions is the ability to bring intelligence at the Edge of the IoT networks. Edge computing is crucial in IoT applications as it paves the way for faster real-time

Xilinx Announces Vitis – a Unified Software Platform Unlocking a New Design Experience for All Developers

02/10/2019, hardwarebee

SAN JOSE, Calif., Oct. 1, 2019 /PRNewswire/ — XILINX DEVELOPER FORUM (XDF) AMERICAS 2019 – Xilinx, Inc. (NASDAQ: XLNX), the leader in adaptive and intelligent computing, today announced Vitis™ (pronounced Vī-tis), a unified software platform that enables a broad new range of developers – including software engineers and AI scientists – to take advantage of the power

Machine Learning FPGA Applications

01/10/2019, hardwarebee

Machine learning and artificial intelligence have quickly become some of the leading technologies for the present as well as for the near future.
 

 
Neural networks on FPGA chips are all the fad right now, and for good reason. A neural network works very similarly to how the