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 ...
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

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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Hackaday

Arduino Hacks

What would you get it you mashed up an FPGA and an Arduino? An FPGA development board with far too few output pins? Or a board in the form-factor of Arduino that’s impossible to program? The Alhambra ...
Electronic Design

Embedded: Module Blends USB With FPGA

Want to build a custom USB-based interface such as a USB-to-GPIB bridge? Check out the ZestSC1. The 7.5- by 12.5-cm module contains a USB controller, a Xilinx Spartan-3 1000 FPGA, 8 Mbytes of SRAM, ...