The Secret Life Of Accelerators
Accelerator chips increasingly are providing the performance boost that device scaling once provided, changing basic assumptions about how data moves within an electronic system and where it should be...
View ArticlePrototyping Partitioning Problems
Gaps are widening in the prototyping of large, complex chips because the speed and capacity of the FPGA is not keeping pace with rapid rollout pace of advanced ASICs. This is a new twist for a...
View ArticleNew Deep Learning Processors, Embedded FPGA Technologies, SoC Design Solutions
Some of the most valuable events at DAC are the IP Track sessions, which give small and midsize companies a chance to share innovations that might not get much attention elsewhere. The use of IP in...
View ArticleFPGAs 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 system...
View ArticleEmbedded FPGA Design Considerations
Geoff Tate, CEO of Flex Logix, talks about interconnects, memory, different design approaches, and why foundry processes are critical to eFPGA design.
View ArticleFPGAs Drive Deeper Into Cars
FPGAs are reaching deeper and wider inside of automobiles, playing an increasingly important role across more systems within a vehicle as the electronic content continues to grow. The role of FPGAs in...
View ArticleSecurity, Scaling and Power
If anyone has doubts about the slowdown and increasing irrelevance of Moore’s Law, Intel’s official unveiling of its advanced packaging strategy should leave little doubt. Inertia has ended and the...
View ArticleWeek in Review: IoT, Security, Autos
Products/Services Rambus reports completing its acquisition of Northwest Logic, a supplier of memory, PCIe, and MIPI digital controllers. Meanwhile, the company named Sean Fan as chief operating...
View ArticleAMD Wants An FPGA Company, Too
AMD signed a definitive agreement to acquire Xilinx for $35 billion in stock, setting the stage for a head-to-head battle against Intel in nearly all major markets. But there’s more to this acquisition...
View ArticleML Focus Shifting Toward Software
New machine-learning (ML) architectures continue to garner a huge amount of attention as the race continues to provide the most effective acceleration architectures for the cloud and the edge, but...
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