Electronic Engineering Journal

LatticeECP3 FPGA Jamz Music Video

If you enjoyed the original Lattice MachXO2 "pitchman" video in 2010, or the follow-up Power Manager II "pickle" video, check out the latest music video from Lattice featuring the LatticeECP3 FPGA. It's not surprising that when you mix a great product like the LatticeECP3 with a light-hearted video, the response is going to be win-win for an engineering audience.

Video sponsored by Lattice

FPGA Design Methods for Fast Turnaround

This paper takes an in depth look at a variety of techniques to help you speed up your synthesis iterations. Whether the goal is aggressive performance or to get a working initial design or prototype on the board as quickly as possible, this paper provides information on traditional and new techniques that accelerate design and debug iterations.

White Paper sponsored by Synopsys

Hierarchical Design Flows: Design Preservation & Team Design

In this episode of Chalk TalkHD, Amelia chats with David Dye of Xilinx about how Hierarchical Design methodologies and Team Design can accelerate your next FPGA design and get those team members of yours working productively together. With these tools and techniques, two million logic elements won't seem like that much after all.

Chalk Talk sponsored by Xilinx

Optimizing 10-Gbps Backplane Performance on Stratix V FPGAs

With our Transceiver Signal Integrity Development Kit, Stratix V GX Edition and the Transceiver Toolkit tool in Quartus II software, you can easily and efficiently evaluate the performance of the high-speed serial transceivers in the Stratix V FPGA.

Video sponsored by Altera

Optimizing Performance, Power, and Area in SoC Designs Using MIPS® Multi-threaded Processors

Hardware-based multi-threading technology has for some time been known in the industry as a feasible technique for improving system performance, but not too many people are aware of just how much traction the technology has gained since its early implementations in the 1960s. This article provides a brief history of hardware based multi-threading and some examples of its commercial adoption so far. It then gives an overview of the fundamental value of multi-threading in hardware, and describes MIPS Technologies’ multi-threading architecture and product offerings. The article also provides several multi-threaded application examples—including those in the areas of driver assistance systems and home gateways—to demonstrate the broad applicability of multi-threading in real-world applications.

White Paper sponsored by MIPS

Integrated Power and System Management

In this episode of Chalk TalkHD Amelia chats with Shyam Chandra of Lattice Semiconductor about an integrated approach to system and power management that will lighten your design load, improve your overall system design, and probably lower your total cost at the same time.

Chalk Talk sponsored by Lattice

Teradici Success Story

Synopsys and Teradici: ASIC Prototyping Made Fast and Efficient with Synplify Premier

White Paper sponsored by Synopsys

IP and Process Solutions for Energy-efficient PMICs

In this episode of Chalk TalkHD Amelia chats with Ravi Mahatme from ARM and King Ou from GLOBALFOUNDRIES about how IP and process solutions can help solve our power management problems.

Chalk Talk sponsored by ARM

Using Low Cost, Non-Volatile PLDs in System Applications

Power supply sequencing, voltage and current monitoring, bus bridging, voltage level translation, interface control, and temperature measurement are typical board functions found in system applications. By using a programmable-based approach instead of several discrete devices or Application Specific Standard Products (ASSPs), designers can accelerate their time-to-market, address system cost and space reduction, and ensure a high level of product differentiation.

White Paper sponsored by Lattice

Using External Memory Interfaces to Achieve Efficient High-Speed Memory Solutions

Because a fast and robust memory interface is crucial for many designers, Altera provides the fastest, most efficient, and lowest latency memory controllers, which allow designers to work with today’s higher speed memories quickly and easily. Designing with Arria V FPGAs not only helps to make designs successful but also ensures that implementation is fast and easy.

White Paper sponsored by Altera

Spartan-6 FPGAs in Video Designs

In this episode of Chalk TalkHD, Amelia chats with Tom Hill and Maureen Smerdon of Xilinx about how Spartan-6 FPGAs can accelerate your next video design, and how adding embedded vision to those designs is getting easier and easier.

Chalk Talk sponsored by Xilinx

Scalable Smart Debugging With ZeBu-Server

In this episode of Chalk TalkHD, Amelia chats with Lauro Rizzatti of EVE about how EVE's ZeBu emulation technology can help you find that one last bug in even the biggest of designs.

Chalk Talk sponsored by EvE

Hierarchical Design Flows: Design Preservation & Team Design

In this episode of Chalk TalkHD, Amelia chats with David Dye of Xilinx about how Hierarchical Design methodologies and Team Design can accelerate your next FPGA design and get those team members of yours working productively together. With these tools and techniques, two million logic elements won't seem like that much after all.

Chalk Talk sponsored by Xilinx

Adding Wi-Fi to Your FPGA Design

In the first episode of our new Chalk Talk^HD series, Amelia Dalton talks to Bob Potock from Altium as they add Wi-Fi to an FPGA-based embedded system.

Chalk Talk sponsored by Altium

Intel Atom™ Processor with built-in Altera Arria® FPGA

In this Chalk Talk^HD Amelia talks to David Schmidt of Arrow about the new Intel Atom™ processor with an Altera Arria FPGA built right into the package.

Chalk Talk sponsored by Arrow

IP and Process Solutions for Energy-efficient PMICs

In this episode of Chalk TalkHD Amelia chats with Ravi Mahatme from ARM and King Ou from GLOBALFOUNDRIES about how IP and process solutions can help solve our power management problems.

Chalk Talk sponsored by ARM

A Platform for Reducing Verification Time and Improving Reliability of Embedded System Hardware

In this whitepaper the author reviews how leveraging in-system diagnostics during the prototype phase can assist engineers in overcoming the challenges design complexity exerts on product development, manufacturing, and overall time-to-market. Readers will gain insight into how they can replace today’s ad-hoc board level verification approaches with an ordered methodology that will enable designers to automatically validate their own hardware designs, optimize system performance, and simplify the process of integrating new hardware with new software

White Paper sponsored by Kozio

Maximize Design Productivity With PCIe/104 FPGA/Processor

In this episode of Chalk TalkHD Amelia chats with Christine Van De Graaf of Kontron, who explain how Kontron is incorporating pre-made, small form factor boards, a high-performance embedded processor programmable logic into their new MSMST board and how we can get started designing with one.

Chalk Talk sponsored by Kontron

Integrated Power and System Management

In this episode of Chalk TalkHD Amelia chats with Shyam Chandra of Lattice Semiconductor about an integrated approach to system and power management that will lighten your design load, improve your overall system design, and probably lower your total cost at the same time.

Chalk Talk sponsored by Lattice

Microspace MSMST

Data Sheet sponsored by Kontron

No end to the possibilities: x86 meets FPGA

White Paper sponsored by Kontron

Optimizing 10-Gbps Backplane Performance on Stratix V FPGAs

With our Transceiver Signal Integrity Development Kit, Stratix V GX Edition and the Transceiver Toolkit tool in Quartus II software, you can easily and efficiently evaluate the performance of the high-speed serial transceivers in the Stratix V FPGA.

Video sponsored by Altera

Meeting the Low Power Imperative at 28 nm (REVISED)

Reducing power consumption in electronic products is no longer just a good idea; for many product developers and manufacturers, it is an essential strategy for gaining competitive advantage in an increasingly power-aware and power-hungry world.

White Paper sponsored by Altera

IP and Process Solutions for Energy-efficient PMICs

In this episode of Chalk TalkHD Amelia chats with Ravi Mahatme from ARM and King Ou from GLOBALFOUNDRIES about how IP and process solutions can help solve our power management problems.

Chalk Talk sponsored by ARM

Achieving Lowest System Cost with Midrange 28 nm FPGAs

Increased capability does not have to increase your cost. Arria V FPGAs provide the highest bandwidth and the most hard IP at the lowest price. In addition, by designing with Arria V FPGAs, you can save system costs, operating costs, and manufacturing costs.

White Paper sponsored by Altera

A Review of BCDlite

GLOBALFOUNDRIES offers BCDliteTM foundry technology optimized for applications such as power management devices, audio amplifiers, displays and LED driver integrated circuits (ICs).

Data Sheet sponsored by ARM