Design-Reuse

Capturing a UART Design in MyHDL & Testing It in an FPGA

The universal asynchronous receiver/transmitter (UART) is an old friend to embedded systems engineers. It's probably the first communications protocol that we learn in college. In this article, we ...
Hackaday

Taking The Pulse (Width Modulation) Of An FPGA

Use the FPGA as a CPU which allows you to add predefined I/O blocks Build custom peripherals for an external CPU from predefined I/O blocks Build custom logic circuitry from scratch Projects that ...
Hackaday

Intel Altera

Being able to communicate between a host computer and a project is often a key requirement, and for FPGA projects that is easily done by adding a submodule like a UART. A Universal Asynchronous ...
Electronic Design

How to Take Advantage of Embedded FPGAs (.PDF Download)

An embedded field-programmable gate array (FPGA) is an IP block that allows a complete FPGA to be incorporated in a system-on-chip (SoC) or any kind of integrated circuit. Embedded FPGAs are new, but ...
Semiconductor Engineering

Micro FPGAs And Embedded FPGAs

When people hear “FPGA” they think “big, expensive, power hungry.” But it doesn’t need to be that way. Renesas has announced their Forge FPGA family. Details are at their website and in one of the ...
Electronic Design

Getting “Creative” with RISC-V

Senior Technology Editor Bill Wong takes RISC-V for a ride on Microsemi’s FPGA. I’ve been following the RISC-V movement almost since its inception, and had a chance to try out SiFive’s ...
Electronics Weekly

Xilinx expands FPGA range

Xilinx has expanded its portfolio of no-fee intellectual property (IP) cores for its FPGAs. The 10/100 Ethernet MAC Lite, single precision floating-point unit, industry standard UART (Universal ...