EDN

Solving FPGA I/O pin assignment challenges

Editor's Note: I've long been impressed by Xcell Journal from Xilinx, both for the quality of its production and the quality of its articles. A few weeks ago we looked at an article on Replacing ...
Hackaday

FreeSoC, For When You Need 68 I/O Pins

Like many of us, [Jon] began his journey through the magical world of microcontrollers with an Arduino. For a beginner, the Arduino is a wonderful tool, but [Jon] quickly found himself limited by the ...
EDN

Binding the “Ties that Break” – Getting FPGA and PCB designers to meet at the I/O pin negotiating table

With their zero NRE and shorter design cycles, FPGA's are steadily replacing ASIC's in mid-level commercial and even higher-volume consumer applications. But as FPGA usage has steadily grown, so have ...
Hackaday

Dual Core Arduino For More Pins

There are easy ways of getting more I/O pins for any project; shift registers, I2C expanders, or ADCs will give you plenty of pins for whatever project you have in mind. All these require extra ...
Design-Reuse

FPGA design from the outside in

FPGAs enable everyone to be a chip designer. This installment shows how to design the bus interface for a generic peripheral chip. When designing with an embedded microprocessor, you always have to ...
CNX Software

AMD Spartan UltraScale+ SU35P FPGA evaluation kit supports Raspberry Pi, Arduino, Mikrobus, and Pmod expansion

AMD's SCU35 Evaluation Kit is an affordable ($229) development board powered by the AMD Spartan UltraScale+ SU35P FPGA device, which targets low-power ...
Design-Reuse

A Reconfigurable System featuring Dynamically Extensible Embedded Microprocessor, FPGA and Customisable I/O

A system-chip targeting image and voice processing and recognition application domains is implemented as a representative of the potential of using programmable logic in system design. It features an ...
Geeky Gadgets

Alan Arduino Compatible Mircoprocessor And Xilinx FPGA (video)

Ewan Lister based in the UK has this created a new development board called the Alan which he has designed to help you expand the functionality of your projects. The Alan Arduino compatible ...
Electronic Design

FPGA Design Tool Aids In I/O Assignments

The latest version of Xilinx’s PlanAhead hierarchical FPGA design and analysis software sports support for the company’s 65-nm Virtex-5 and Spartan-3 devices. Used with the Xilinx Integrated Software ...
Electronic Design

FPGA Q&A: Lattice Semiconductor

Electronic Design held a series of Q&A sessions with several major FPGA companies. Here, our roundtable discussion with Lattice Semiconductor included Bertrand Leigh, director of applications ...