Why use an FPGA?
“Please help me do this on an FPGA” The question you shouldn’t ask! A common refrain on many of the internet’s finest help forums and newsgroups is “I’m trying to do x using an FPGA, …
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More ARM FPGA
A while ago I compared Altera and Xilinx’s ARM-based FPGA combos. More information is now available publicly, so let’s see what we know now… One thing that’s hard to miss is that Altera are …
FPGAs and ARMs - a summary
Today, I compared the new combined ARM and FPGA devices from Xilinx and Altera. This post summarises that rather long post! Summary Well, there’s two interesting new series of devices. Both chip families look …
FPGAs considered ARM-full
Xilinx and Altera have both announced FPGAs with hard ARM processors on them. Xilinx have even got a new product famliy name (Zynq) for them. The products are potential game-changers in some applications. The combination …
libv has a home
Some of my “useful bits” of library code have lived in libv.vhd for a while - I’ve split it off and licensed it with a CC0 license (which means the author disclaims copyright and offers no warranty). …