EDN

FPGA dev. kits target DSP, comm, embedded

Six new development kits for the Virtex-6 and Spartan-6 FPGA families enable developers to focus on innovation and differentiation when designing with FPGAs. The kits are part of the company’s ...
Electronic Design

Embedded: FPGA Toolkit Supports Hard And Soft Processor Designs

Version 6.2i of the Embedded Development Kit (EDK) can handle the company's FPGAs, including embedded PowerPC processors as well as the MicroBlaze soft processor. It supports the Virtex-II Pro, Virtex ...
Electronic Design

EiED Online>> FPGA 2: Xilinx Embeds Processors

Xilinx’s PowerPC and MicroBlaze Development Kit ($895) provides a quick way to get started with FPGA processor development using either the built-in PowerPC processor in the Virtex-4 FX12 found in the ...
Semiconductor Engineering

On-Chip FPGA: The “Other” Compute Resource

When system companies discuss processing requirements for their next generation products, the typical discussion invariably leads to: what should the processor ...
Semiconductor Engineering

Embedded GPU for FPGA, Achieving Over 770 MHz Operating Frequency With Unconstrained Compile

A technical paper titled “eGPU: A 750 MHz Class Soft GPGPU for FPGA” was published by researchers at Intel Corporation and Imperial College London. “This paper introduces the eGPU, a SIMT soft ...