Strategies for EDA tool usage will change course as gate levels, and ultimately costs, rise in programmable logic designs. For designs below 25,000 gates, the basic tools from logic vendors and many ...

Lattice Semiconductor Corporation announced the immediate availability of Version 4.2 of its web-downloadable ispLEVER-Starter programmable logic design tool suite. The ispLEVER-Starter tools are a ...

As you may recall, earlier this year, the folks at Altium introduced their Innovation Station, which is a combination of th their unified electronics design software, Altium Designer and an extended ...

After one of my engineers told me that she had found a typo in her hardware, I thought just how far design has come in the last 30 years and more. Back then, the analog section of a system consisted ...

This course will give you the foundation for FPGA design in Embedded Systems. You will learn what an FPGA is and how this technology was developed, how to select the best FPGA architecture for a given ...

A programmable logic controller, or PLC, is a software-based equivalent of a relay panel. A PLC is a general-purpose device. One model can be programmed to control a variety of machines, and programs ...

Editor's note: This is a brief excerpt from article on EE Times' Programmable Logic Designline. To read the full article, click here. Sven Andersson's tutorial “How to design an FPGA from scratch” was ...

Semiconductor company Xilinx is taking the wraps off of its software programmable chip design that it claims is part of an entirely new computing category. It's called the Adaptive Compute ...