EDN

FPGAs: System gates or logic cells/elements?

Arrgghhh! Will this never end? I just received an email from someone who asked: Hello Max, Would you please provide me any details about relation between Logic Elements (LEs) and System Gates count.
EDN

Building an FPGA FIFO without using logic resources

Today, FPGA designers are using these flexible devices to perform everything from simple glue logic tasks to implementing complicated system on a chip (SoC) functions. The efficiency and ease of ...
Electronic Design

Cost-Conscious FPGAs Quadruple Logic Density

Nearly four times the logic density of previous low-cost FPGA families—that's the earmark of the just-released Cyclone FPGA family. With a logic architecture redesigned from the ground up, Altera now ...
Electronic Design

Incremental Compilation Comes To FPGA Design

Today's FPGAs are large--really large. The largest are closing in on 200,000 logic elements and include features like memories, analog phase-locked loops, transceivers, and more. Yet that complexity ...
Embedded

Tackle team-based FPGA design

You see them at almost every user seminar or industry trade show workshop: the Methodology Managers from XYZ Corporation, who describe the system they use to help the company make sense of the ...
Semiconductor Engineering

FPGAs Becoming More SoC-Like

FPGAs are blinged-out rockstars compared to their former selves. No longer just a collection of look-up tables (LUTs) and registers, FPGAs have moved well beyond into now being architectures for ...
Design-Reuse

Implementing DSP Functions Within FPGAs

Cofer and Harding discuss how to implement DSP functionality, covering when FPGAs are a good fit for DSP algorithm implementation and important design decisions and considerations. Each of these ...
Design-Reuse

Building an FPGA FIFO without using logic recourses

Today, FPGA designers are using these flexible devices to perform everything from simple glue logic tasks to implementing complicated system on a chip (SoC) functions. The efficiency and ease of ...