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FPGAs Are More Accessible to Non-FPGA Specialists Than Ever Before

FPGAs Are More Accessible to Non-FPGA Specialists Than Ever Before

FPGAs pose a major drawback: they require the expertise of highly specialized (and scarce) engineers trained to work with FPGAs. Three companies have set out to change that.


News Mar 26, 2020 by Gary Elinoff
Osaka University Develops an FPGA Computing Device for Maximal Optimization of AI Tasks

Osaka University Develops an FPGA Computing Device for Maximal Optimization of AI Tasks

Osaka University researchers have built a new device that can be customized by the user for maximum efficiency in AI applications.


News Mar 13, 2020 by Luke James
What Is a Hardware Description Language (HDL)?

What Is a Hardware Description Language (HDL)?

This FEQ (or Frequent Engineering Question) covers the basics of a crucial topic: hardware description languages.


Data Centers Are Overloaded. The Inventor of FPGAs Is Swooping In With a “Comprehensive” SmartNIC

Data Centers Are Overloaded. The Inventor of FPGAs Is Swooping In With a “Comprehensive” SmartNIC

The FPGA-based SmartNIC arena—including giants like Microsoft and Intel—just got more interesting. Enter the inventor of FPGAs.


News Mar 04, 2020 by Gary Elinoff
Microchip’s New MCUs Move Software Tasks to Hardware for Faster Throughput

Microchip’s New MCUs Move Software Tasks to Hardware for Faster Throughput

Microchip’s PIC18-Q43 family is designed to eliminate software bottlenecks and allows designers to bring products to market more quickly.


News Feb 17, 2020 by Gary Elinoff
Watchdog Timers in Microcontrollers

Watchdog Timers in Microcontrollers

This article is the fourth of a series on microcontroller timers which discusses internal watchdogs.


 Real Time Clocks (RTCs) in Microcontroller Timers

Real Time Clocks (RTCs) in Microcontroller Timers

This article is the third of a series on microcontroller timers which describes the RTCs inside a microcontroller.


Upcoming embedded world 2020 Demonstrates the Latest Developments in Embedded System Technologies

Upcoming embedded world 2020 Demonstrates the Latest Developments in Embedded System Technologies

The embedded world Conference is the world’s leading meeting place for the embedded community, and it is returning again for its 18th year.


News Feb 03, 2020 by Luke James
Digilent’s New Dev Boards Help C and C++ Designers Interface With FPGA

Digilent’s New Dev Boards Help C and C++ Designers Interface With FPGA

Diligent’s Eclypse Z7 and Genesys ZU are designed to speed development for projects based on Xilinx’s Zynq-7000 and Zynq Ultrascale+.


News Jan 30, 2020 by Gary Elinoff
Introduction to Microcontroller Timers: Periodic Timers

Introduction to Microcontroller Timers: Periodic Timers

This article, the first in a series on “timer/counter” functions in microcontrollers, discusses periodic timers.


What’s New in Space? Components Designed to Weather Aerospace and Defense

What’s New in Space? Components Designed to Weather Aerospace and Defense

This article highlights a few recent products that aim to meet the engineering pain points for harsh environments, including processing, power usage, size, and weight.


News Jan 05, 2020 by Hannah DeTavis
PRO DESIGN Extends Family of FPGA-based Prototyping Modules

PRO DESIGN Extends Family of FPGA-based Prototyping Modules

The XCVU13P module incorporates 52 multi-gigabit transceivers for stable performance up to 32.75Gbps.


News Dec 26, 2019 by Gary Elinoff
Dialog Semiconductor Licenses Flex Logix’s Embedded FPGA Technology for High-volume ICs

Dialog Semiconductor Licenses Flex Logix’s Embedded FPGA Technology for High-volume ICs

Flex Logix’s eFPGA is a low-power FPGA that can be integrated into SoCs, microcontrollers, and ICs.


News Dec 18, 2019 by Cabe Atwell
Microchip Announces First RISC-V-based SoC FPGA to Use Half the Power of Other FPGAs

Microchip Announces First RISC-V-based SoC FPGA to Use Half the Power of Other FPGAs

Microchip's new RISC-V-based PolarFire SoC family is said to provide 50% lower power than competing mid-range FPGAs.


News Dec 10, 2019 by Lisa Boneta.
Recent FPGAs Designed for C++ and Python, Harsh Environments, and ASIC Prototyping

Recent FPGAs Designed for C++ and Python, Harsh Environments, and ASIC Prototyping

These recently-released FPGAs aim to use accessible programming languages, withstand harsh environments, and support ASIC prototyping.


News Nov 23, 2019 by Robin Mitchell
Xilinx Hails New Single-chip Microprocessors as the “World’s Highest Performing” for ADAS

Xilinx Hails New Single-chip Microprocessors as the “World’s Highest Performing” for ADAS

The single chip integrates 64-bit quad-core Arm Cortex-A53 and the dual-core Arm Cortex-R5 based processing system.


News Nov 15, 2019 by Lisa Boneta.
Concurrency and Interrupts in Microcontrollers and Embedded Systems

Concurrency and Interrupts in Microcontrollers and Embedded Systems

This article introduces the idea of concurrency and a mechanism that many computers provide for dealing with concurrency called interrupts.


Embedded Firmware Tips: How to Initialize Arrays in C with Signal Waveforms and Other File Data

Embedded Firmware Tips: How to Initialize Arrays in C with Signal Waveforms and Other File Data

This article shows how to initialize arrays in a C program with values from text files.


Dialog Semiconductor Launches New Series of Programmable Sub-PMICs

Dialog Semiconductor Launches New Series of Programmable Sub-PMICs

Dialog Semi's four new high-frequency, I2C-controlled buck converters aim to save onboard space and external component count.


News Sep 19, 2019 by Gary Elinoff
Embedded Firmware Tips and Tricks: Use Your Read Only Memory to Free Up RAM

Embedded Firmware Tips and Tricks: Use Your Read Only Memory to Free Up RAM

Learn how to use code memory to free up RAM on your MCU.