EDN

Embedded Linux and FPGAs accelerate embedded software development

The folks at LynuxWorks, who specialize in the embedded software market, and the folks at Impulse Accelerated Technologies, who specialize in software-to-FPGA tools, today announced technical ...
EDN

Linux is available for Altera’s Nios II embedded processor

Getting Linux support on an FPGA is important; how you get it and who you get it from is really important. So I was excited to hear that the folks at Altera Corporation and Wind River have announced ...
Semiconductor Engineering

Embedded FPGA, The Ultimate Accelerator

An embedded FPGA (eFPGA) is an IP core that you integrate into your ASIC or SoC to get the benefits of programmable logic without the cost, but with better latency, throughput, and power ...
Electronic Design

Linux Development Platform Eases FPGA Design

For the first time, developers of FPGA systems using the popular Xilinx products can build and deploy their systems on a Linux platform, thanks to the Linux Professional Edition from MontaVista ...
Linux Journal

Xilinx FPGA Design Tools for Linux

A field programmable gate array (FPGA) is a user-programmable piece of silicon constructed in very large-scale integration (VLSI) technology. The VLSI transistor-level detail is absolutely predefined ...
Electronic Design

Linux Targets Virtex-4 FX FPGA

Developers looking to take advantage of the two 32-bit PowerPC 405 processor cores in a Xilinx Virtex-4 FX FPGA can check out the Timesys 2.6.23 Linux kernel. The distribution is optimized for the ...
Linux Journal

Linux at the Embedded Systems Conference

In my writings about past embedded systems conferences, I've characterized the impact of Linux on the embedded market as a “disruptive technology” that was rewriting the rules of the game. Not any ...
Embedded

Microchip launches $500 RISC-V based FPGA development kit

Microchip Technology has launched what it says is the industry’s first RISC-V based system-on-chip (SoC) field programmable gate array (FPGA) development kit, available for under $500. The rising ...
Embedded

Combining FPGAs & Atom x86 CPUs for SBC design flexibility

This product how-to design article describes how an embedded X86 single board computer’s feature set need no longer be set in stone, and shows how this was done in Kontron’s PCIe/104 MICROSPACE MSMST ...
Seeking Alpha

Microchip’s Low-Cost PolarFire® SoC Discovery Kit Makes RISC-V® and FPGA Design More Accessible for a Wider Range of Embedded Engineers

CHANDLER, Ariz., Feb. 15, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The embedded industry is seeing an increased demand for open-source RISC-V ®-based processor architectures, but there are still limited options when ...
Semiconductor Engineering

Basics Of Embedded FPGA Acceleration

Making a chip run faster is no longer guaranteed by shrinking features or moving to a different manufacturing process. It now requires a fundamental change in the architecture of the chip itself. The ...
Design News

The Advantages of Embedded FPGA for Aerospace and Defense

Market research reports show that 10% or more of all FPGAs are used by military and aerospace systems. Clearly FPGA provides major advantages in the flexibility to adapt to changing standards and ...