Hackaday

Mithro Runs Down Open Source FPGA Toolchains

Tim [Mithro] Ansell has a lot to tell you about the current state of open FPGA tooling: 115 slides in 25 minutes if you’re counting. His SymbiFlow project aims to be the GCC of FPGA toolchains: ...
Electronic Design

Q&A: Embedded FPGA Facilitates Reconfigurable SoC/MCU RTL Blocks

Field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) have provided developers with flexibility. Recently, FPGAs have incorporated system-on-chip (SoC) microprocessors such 64-bit, ARM Cortex-A57 cores. This ...
VentureBeat

FPGA chips are coming on fast in the race to accelerate AI

AI is hungry, hyperscale AI ravenous. Both can devour processing, electricity, algorithms, and programming schedules. As AI models rapidly get larger and more complex (an estimated 10x a year), a ...
Digi Times

iCometrue is actively promoting logic drive and field programmable multi-chip package

Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) chips manufactured on sub-10-nm nodes are suitable for realizing Logic Drive. With 10 nm and more advanced processes, tens of billions of transistors and more than ...
HotHardware

Intel Spins Off Programmable Chip Business With FPGA Market Poised For Explosive Growth

Intel's share price is up in after market hours following the announcement of its plans to spin off its Programmable Solutions Group (PSG) into a standalone business, followed by an eventual IPO. The ...
Nasdaq

BittWare Launches IA-840F with Intel® Agilex™ FPGA and Support for oneAPI™ Unified Software Programming Environment

CONCORD, N.H., Nov. 17, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- BittWare, a Molex company, today unveiled the IA-840F, the company's first Intel® Agilex™-based FPGA card designed to deliver significant ...
Defense One

DARPA licenses emerging chip technology

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency will license emerging "embedded" programmable chip technology from a Silicon Valley startup that specializes in chip intellectual property cores and ...
PC World

Intel looks beyond x86, puts 64-bit ARM processor in new FPGA chip

It seems like the chip war between Intel and ARM is slowly winding down, at least for the time being. Intel for decades has doggedly sworn by chips based on its homegrown x86 architecture, but the ...
EDN

Sky-rocketing chip prices? Not with embedded FPGA (eFPGA)

Today’s chip design market has become extremely competitive and when you add on the rising cost of semiconductor manufacturing, it’s no wonder why the embedded FPGA (eFPGA) market is taking off. In ...
HotHardware

AMD's $35B FPGA Chip Power Move To Acquire Xilinx Just Cleared All Regulatory Hurdles

There are no more regulatory roadblocks standing in the way of AMD acquiring Xilinx, a powerhouse in field programmable chip array (FPGA) designs, in an all-stock transaction valued at $35 billion.
EurekAlert!

Critical 'starbleed' vulnerability in FPGA chips identified

Field Programmable Gate Arrays, FPGAs for short, are flexibly programmable computer chips that are considered very secure components in many applications. In a joint research project, scientists from ...
VentureBeat

Xilinx makes programmable chips that can be used in space

Xilinx has unveiled radiation-tolerant Kintex UltraScale programmable chips that can be used in satellites and other space hardware. These types of chips, which can endure harsh radiation in space, ...