EDN

Souped-up C compiler autoconfigures FPGAs

FORT COLLINS, Colo. — A C compiler has been developed for systems that use a microprocessor and a field-programmable-gate-array coprocessor. The Single-Assignment C compiler not only speeds up ...
EDN

Synopsys takes another stab at FPGA synthesis

SAN JOSE, Calif. — Making its fourth run at FPGA synthesis, Synopsys Inc. has tweaked its Design Compiler ASIC synthesis tool to enable designers to use the same tools and potentially the same design ...
Business Wire

Starbridge and Impulse Collaborate on C-to-FPGA Acceleration

KIRKLAND, Wash. & SALT LAKE CITY--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Starbridge Systems and Impulse Accelerated Technologies today announced a joint initiative to provided graphical and C-language tools for ...
Houston Chronicle

(BW) VMETRO FPGA Design Kit Accelerates DSP Development for Xilinx(R) Virtex(TM)-5 FPGAs

With the V5+C kit, software application developers who may be less familiar with low-level VHDL design methods can easily move ANSI C algorithms to an FPGA-accelerated platform. Experienced hardware ...
Hackaday

Hands-On With New Arduino FPGA Board: MKR Vidor 4000

Hackaday brought you a first look the Arduino MKR Vidor 4000 when it announced. Arduino sent over one of the first boards so now we finally have our hands on one! It’s early and the documentation is ...
WatersTechnology

Impulse Announces C-to-HDL FPGA Compiler

Impulse Accelerated Technologies has announced the latest version of its C-to-HDL compiler, providing field-programmable gate array (FPGA) coding support for Arista Switch users. FPGAs, which are ...
Design-Reuse

Cadence Expands C-to-Silicon Compiler with High-level Synthesis Support for Altera and Xilinx FPGAs

Integration Enables High-level Synthesis of Mixed Control/Datapath Designs and Incremental Synthesis for FPGAs SAN JOSE, Calif., and TOKYO, 20 Jan 2009-- Cadence Design Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ: CDNS), ...
Electronic Design

Updated C-to-FPGA Compiler Accelerates Image Processing

Version 3.7 of CoDeveloper C-to-FPGA compiler includes performance improvements, wider Linux support, and more parallel hardware optimization features including higher-throughput streaming I/O. Other ...
Embedded

CPU plus FPGA design flow for software developers: A new tangible reality

Recently, Brian Bailey organized a round table that resulted in a two-part article called Supporting CPUs Plus FPGAs. The experts discussed the evolving reality of systems design based on FPGAs and ...
Hackaday

FPGA Retrocomputer: Return To Moncky

Part of the reason that retrocomputers are still so popular despite their obsolescence is that it’s possible to understand the entire inner workings of a computer like this, from the transistors all ...
Electronic Design

3D FPGA Takes On 100G Networking

Tabula's original ABAX introduced its 3D SpaceTime architecture to the FPGA world (see FPGAs Enter The Third Dimension). The ABAX 2 series is implemented using Intel's 22nm Tri-Gate technology (see ...