EDN

Large, low-cost FPGA touted as ASIC, ASSP alternative

San Jose, Calif—Altera Corp. is offering what it claims is the largest, low-cost field programmable gate array (FPGA) with densities of more than 68K logic elements, up to 1.1-Mbits of embedded RAM ...
EDN

How to Choose the Right FPGA

Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs) are a tremendously exciting implementation platform. They are used to replace Application Specific ICs (ASICs), such as digital receivers, and programmable ...
VentureBeat

FPGA chips are coming on fast in the race to accelerate AI

AI is hungry, hyperscale AI ravenous. Both can devour processing, electricity, algorithms, and programming schedules. As AI models rapidly get larger and more complex (an estimated 10x a year), a ...
Electronic Design

AMD’s New Family of Low-Cost FPGAs is All About Flexibility

With an eye toward the intelligent edge, the Spartan UltraScale+ family of programmable logic chips presents a large generational leap in not only performance and power efficiency, but also ...
Semiconductor Engineering

Integrating FPGA: Comparison Of Chiplets Vs. eFPGA

FPGA is widely popular in systems for its flexibility and adaptability. Increasingly, it is being used in high volume applications. As volumes grow, system designers can consider integration of the ...
Semiconductor Engineering

FPGA Design Tradeoffs Getting Tougher

FPGAs are getting larger, more complex, and significantly harder to verify and debug. In the past, FPGAs were considered a relatively quick and simple way to get to market before committing to the ...