FPGA

May 11, 2015

Altera uses hierarchical approach to speed up FPGA compiles

Altera is revamping the Quartus II software for its FPGAs with a mapping and synthesis engine aimed at the upcoming Gen 10 products, as well as adding a C/C++ front-end for system-level design.
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April 21, 2015

Neuroprocessing to drive next wave of processor cores, says Qualcomm

Deep learning offers the next major opportunity for specialist processors, Qualcomm's Karim Arabi claimed in his keynote at Mentor Graphics’ U2U in San Jose.
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September 30, 2014

Altera moves to 55nm for non-volatile programmable logic

Altera has moved to a 55nm embedded flash process to continue its Max series of non-volatile FPGAs.
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August 18, 2014

Power and clocking at 20nm force changes in FPGAs

Design for the 20nm generation of processes has revealed power and clocking issues for the two major FPGA manufacturers presentations at Hot Chips revealed.
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August 6, 2014

NI moves Spice to FPGA for faster simulations

National Instruments has developed a kernel for Spice analog simulations that can be downloaded for faster performance on the FPGAs inside CompactRIO hardware.
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April 24, 2014

Altera finds a way to cheaper floating point in FPGAs

Altera has revealed that the DSP blocks in the Arria 10 FPGAs contain the logic needed to make them work as IEEE754-compliant floating-point units.
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March 27, 2014

Intel and Altera extend foundry deal into interposer and full 3D

Deal quashes rumors that Altera was about to move its cutting edge production back to TSMC, but nor does it appear to be 'exclusive' for 3D products.
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October 29, 2013

Altera to go 64bit with ARM on FPGAs

Altera will add a quad-core 64bit ARM processor complex to the Stratix 10 family of high-end FPGAs that will be made on Intel's 14nm finFET process.
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July 9, 2013

Xilinx tapes out for first of 20nm-generation FPGAs

Xilinx aims to be first of the FPGA makers to produce 20nm devices, expecting to move to production samples for some products by the end of the year.
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June 18, 2013

Microsemi focuses on security with Igloo2 FPGAs

Design security is a major target for Microsemi’s update to its Igloo series of flash memory-based FPGAs, which add an ARM-oriented memory subsystem.
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