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

Does The World Need An FPGA Arduino?

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 ...
Hackaday

Hands-On With New Arduino FPGA Board: MKR Vidor 4000

Hackaday brought you a first look the Arduino MKR Vidor 4000 when it announced. Arduino sent over one of the first boards so now we finally have our hands on one! It’s early and the documentation is ...
EDN

Xilinx packs more I/O into its top-selling FPGA line

SAN MATEO, Calif. — Xilinx Inc. has upgraded its top-selling FPGA line by packing in more I/O pins and logic resources, a move that will give designers one more reason to quit using ASICs, the company ...
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 ...
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 ...
Geeky Gadgets

ButterStick ECP5 FPGA-based development board

The ButterStick is an ECP5 FPGA-based development board from Greg Davill (also the creator of the Orange Crab). Building from the previously released OrangeCrab, the ButterStick’s primary focus is ...
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 ...
Design-Reuse

Solving FPGA I/O pin assignment challenges

A few weeks ago we looked at an article on Replacing obsolete video game circuits with Xilinx CPLDs, and now I'm delighted to have the opportunity to present the following piece from the Third Quarter ...