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A Preview of What’s Brewing for Embedded World 2025

A Preview of What’s Brewing for Embedded World 2025

Check out the technologies and products these leading companies plan to showcase at next week's Embedded World trade show in Nuremberg, Germany.


News Mar 08, 2025 by Jeff Child
Tradeshows Help Make This a People Business—A Look Back at Four 2024 Events

Tradeshows Help Make This a People Business—A Look Back at Four 2024 Events

Merry Christmas! Never forget that our business is a people business. Enjoy this review of four of the trade shows All About Circuits attended this year, and the great people we met.


News Dec 25, 2024 by Jeff Child
AMD Reveals Adaptive SoCs With RF Conversion and 80 TOPS DSP

AMD Reveals Adaptive SoCs With RF Conversion and 80 TOPS DSP

Announced today, the new series integrates RF-sampling converters and high-performance compute on a single chip.


News Dec 10, 2024 by Jake Hertz
Electronica 2024 Was Jammed Packed With Exciting Technologies and Products

Electronica 2024 Was Jammed Packed With Exciting Technologies and Products

Enjoy this selection of fascinating technology news from the recent Electronica 2024 trade show in Munich, Germany.


News Nov 28, 2024 by Jeff Child
AMD First to Release FPGA Devices With CXL 3.1 and PCIe Gen6

AMD First to Release FPGA Devices With CXL 3.1 and PCIe Gen6

Unveiled today at Electronica, AMD designed the new FPGA to act as a “traffic cop” in larger AI systems.


News Nov 12, 2024 by Jake Hertz
From VHDL Code to Real Hardware: Designing a Finite-State Machine

From VHDL Code to Real Hardware: Designing a Finite-State Machine

Learn how to implement finite-state machines in VHDL by creating a 4-bit binary counter. After compiling, it will run on an Altera CPLD development board connected to a custom PCB with input switches and an LED display.


Go Big or Go Home: Efinix Targets Mass Market With New FPGA Family

Go Big or Go Home: Efinix Targets Mass Market With New FPGA Family

The Topaz FPGA line builds on the company’s Titanium FPGA portfolio with high-performance, cost-effective chips for mainstream applications.


News Aug 15, 2024 by Duane Benson
Lattice Combines Security of Fixed Hardware With Flexibility of an FPGA

Lattice Combines Security of Fixed Hardware With Flexibility of an FPGA

Lattice Semiconductor is bringing cryptographic agility and hardware root of trust to low-power FPGAs.


News Jul 02, 2024 by Duane Benson
Targeting 4K Video Interfaces, Small FPGA Boasts Hard-Core MIPI C-PHYs

Targeting 4K Video Interfaces, Small FPGA Boasts Hard-Core MIPI C-PHYs

"Dynamite comes in small packages": Gowin Semiconductor adopts this mentality with its new FPGA targeting embedded high-speed interfaces.


News Jul 02, 2024 by Aaron Carman
Modifying the Operation of Digital Components in LTspice

Modifying the Operation of Digital Components in LTspice

Customizing the device parameters of LTspice's logic gates and flip-flops can help you more accurately simulate these components. This article walks through the specification process and provides some helpful tips.


An Introduction to Using Logic Gates in LTspice

An Introduction to Using Logic Gates in LTspice

This article explains how to successfully integrate logic gates into an LTspice simulation.


Altera Infuses AI Into New Mid-Range FPGAs

Altera Infuses AI Into New Mid-Range FPGAs

Barely a month after its creation (or re-creation), FGPA company Altera hit the stage at Embedded World 2024 in Nuremberg to highlight new AI-focused Agilex 5 FPGAs.


News Apr 10, 2024 by Dale Wilson
All About Circuits Looks Ahead at Embedded World 2024

All About Circuits Looks Ahead at Embedded World 2024

Check out the technologies and products these leading companies plan to showcase at next week's Embedded World trade show in Nuremberg, Germany.


News Apr 03, 2024 by Jeff Child
Intel Spins Off Altera as Independent FPGA Supplier

Intel Spins Off Altera as Independent FPGA Supplier

Eight and a half years after acquiring Altera, Intel has spun off the FPGA division as an independent subsidiary.


News Mar 08, 2024 by Duane Benson
AMD Rolls Out Cost-Optimized FPGA Family

AMD Rolls Out Cost-Optimized FPGA Family

As FPGAs target more applications, AMD’s newest family—launched today—balances cost and power with performance.


News Mar 05, 2024 by Aaron Carman
Siemens Unveils 3-Piece Emulation and Prototyping Solution

Siemens Unveils 3-Piece Emulation and Prototyping Solution

The new hardware-assisted verification and validation system marks a first for the EDA industry.


News Feb 21, 2024 by Jake Hertz
AMD Launches Embedded+ Architecture Blending Ryzen and Versal

AMD Launches Embedded+ Architecture Blending Ryzen and Versal

Unveiled today, the new architecture hopes to facilitate sensor integration, offloaded processing, and faster times to market.


News Feb 06, 2024 by Jake Hertz
I’m Thankful for These 6 EE Online Resources on All About Circuits

I’m Thankful for These 6 EE Online Resources on All About Circuits

On Thanksgiving today, Jeff reflects on how electronics technology enables all our amazing devices, and shares six useful All About Circuits online resources to be thankful for.


News Nov 23, 2023 by Jeff Child
FPGA Advances Tackle Mounting Data Demands From E-Trading to AI Processing

FPGA Advances Tackle Mounting Data Demands From E-Trading to AI Processing

In this roundup, we discuss how AMD, Intel, and Lattice Semiconductor are pushing the boundaries of FPGAs with new offerings.


News Nov 06, 2023 by Jake Hertz
From VHDL Code to Real Hardware: Designing an 8-bit ALU

From VHDL Code to Real Hardware: Designing an 8-bit ALU

In this project we create an 8-bit arithmetic logic unit (ALU) in the VHDL language and run it on an Altera CPLD development board connected to a custom PCB with input switches and LED display.