Hackaday

A Bitcoin Mining Example For The BeagleBone With An FPGA Shield

If you’ve got a BeagleBone and an FPGA board you should give this Bitcoin mining rig a try. The hardware uses brute-force to solve hashes, looking for the rare sets that can be used as digital ...
Hackaday

Pipelining Digital Logic In FPGAs

When you first learn about digital logic, it probably seems like it is easy. You learn about AND and OR gates and figure that’s not very hard. However, going from a few basic gates to something like a ...
EDN

FPGA firmware example of how to interface Altera FPGAs to high-speed LVDS-interface data converters

This reference design and the associated example Verilog code can be used as a starting point for interfacing Altera FPGAs to Texas Instruments' high-speed LVDS-interface analog-to-digital converters ...
CU Boulder News & Events

ECEA 5360 Introduction to FPGA Design for Embedded Systems

This course will give you the foundation for FPGA design in Embedded Systems. You will learn what an FPGA is and how this technology was developed, how to select the best FPGA architecture for a given ...
The Next Platform

Where The FPGA Hits The Server Road For Inference Acceleration

There are an increasing number of ways to do machine learning inference in the datacenter, but one of the increasingly popular means of running inference workloads is the combination of traditional ...
Forbes

This Mysterious Chip In The iPhone 7 Could Be Key To Apple's AI Push

It’s been more than a month since teardown shops like iFixit and Chipworks took apart and dissected Apple’s iPhone 7. The biggest surprise remains Apple's decision to dual source its LTE modems from ...
Semiconductor Engineering

The Case For Combining CPUs With FPGA Fabrics

Given that the industry is beginning to reach the limits of what can physically and economically be achieved through further shrinkage of process geometries, reducing feature size and increasing ...
Embedded

How to design an FPGA from scratch

Editor's note: This is a brief excerpt from article on EE Times' Programmable Logic Designline. To read the full article, click here. Sven Andersson's tutorial “How to design an FPGA from scratch” was ...
EDN

Tip: FFTs in LabVIEW FPGA

Since the release of NI LabVIEW 8.5 software, the new fixed-point numeric data type has opened up an entirely new world of possibilities for signal processing in LabVIEW FPGA. The most recent example ...
Electronic Design

Verification Techniques For FPGA Designs

With the increasing size and complexity of FPGA devices, there is a need for more efficient verification methods. Timing simulation can be the most revealing verification method; however, it is often ...
Automation World

How Vision Is Becoming More Viable for Automation

FPGAs can be targeted at a wide array of automation hardware, including vision systems. In a recent blog post, The Coming Age of Vision Guided Robots, the impact low-cost imaging sensors are having on ...