Industry Webinar

Introduction to FPGA Design with Efinix

Andreas Schwarztrauber CEO of TRS-STAR

ABOUT

Most of Andreas‘ professional was related to FPGAs. He designed a full custom ASIC during his EE master thesis and joined Actel (now Microchip) engineering in Sunnyvale, California. After returning to Germany he worked as an FPGA and hardware developer for Traceport-Analyzers at Lauterbach Datentechnik. Over the past 15 years he was in various business development roles all FPGA related. Since 2023 he is CEO of TRS-STAR a European distributor focusing on suppliers with great products and high growth potential. FPGAs are still his passion and he strongly believes in the benefits of the Efinix Quantum technology.

Markus Pfaff CEO & Co-Founder P2L2)

ABOUT

Markus Pfaff adopted HDL for digital design in 1989 and did the first HDL based FPGA design ever done at the Technical University Darmstadt starting in the winter of 1991 in the proprietary hardware description language REGLAN at a time when synthesis simply was not available and rudimentary simulation ran on a VAX VMS computer occupying a large room in the university basement. Ever since he focused his career on FPGA and ASIC design methodology as well as advanced co-simulation techniques and engaged in several academic and industrial projects including the design of the Infineon S-GOLD chip, which you find at the heart of the original iPhone. In 2002 he was appointed as a full professor at the University of Applied Sciences of Upper Austria at Hagenberg. His recent research topics span design and verification methodology especially targeting signal processing applications. He is co-founder and CEO of the Austrian-based embedded and FPGA design service provider P2L2 and runs an FPGA consulting business since 2004. Markus Pfaff holds a Dipl.-Ing. degree in Electrical Engineering from Technical University Darmstadt and a PhD in the field of methods for advanced digital simulation from Johannes Kepler University Linz.

Introduction to FPGA Design with Efinix

Watch this webinar to learn about Quick Instruments (QI) — a test & measurement framework that loads itself into on-board FPGAs for test, validation or programming purposes.

In partnership with TRS-STAR

Webinar Overview

With the TEC BYTES webinars, TRS-STAR offers you bite-sized technical tidbits. Efinix FPGAs use the disruptive QuantumTM technology for their low-power, cost-effective, compact and resource-conserving FPGAs. The FPGAs scale from 4 kLUT to currently 375 kLUT and also offer SoC variants with a RISC-V Quad-Core Processor (up to 1 GHz). In the webinar, Andreas Schwarztrauber (CEO of TRS-STAR) will give you a brief overview of the Efinix FPGA families. Afterwards, FH-Prof. DI Dr. Markus Pfaff (CEO & Co-Founder P2L2) will show you how to easily get started with or switch to this fascinating FPGA technology.

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