Electronic Design

EiED Online>> FPGA 2: Xilinx Embeds Processors

Xilinx’s PowerPC and MicroBlaze Development Kit ($895) provides a quick way to get started with FPGA processor development using either the built-in PowerPC processor in the Virtex-4 FX12 found in the ...
EDN

Plug-and-play embedded modules rest on FPGAs

San Mateo, Calif. – Taking a page from the history of board-level computer systems and adding several bits of new technology, startup Ultimodule Inc. today will announce a complete do-it-yourself tool ...
Design-Reuse

Understanding FPGAs – From Architecture to SoC, RFSoC, and Embedded FPGA Technologies

One of the most crucial components of modern digital systems, field programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) provide for flexibility, parallel processing, and hardware-level acceleration. FPGAs, in contrast ...
Electronic Design

Embedded: FPGA Toolkit Supports Hard And Soft Processor Designs

Version 6.2i of the Embedded Development Kit (EDK) can handle the company's FPGAs, including embedded PowerPC processors as well as the MicroBlaze soft processor. It supports the Virtex-II Pro, Virtex ...
Semiconductor Engineering

Embedded GPU for FPGA, Achieving Over 770 MHz Operating Frequency With Unconstrained Compile

A technical paper titled “eGPU: A 750 MHz Class Soft GPGPU for FPGA” was published by researchers at Intel Corporation and Imperial College London. “This paper introduces the eGPU, a SIMT soft ...