Hackaday

NEO430 Puts A Custom MSP430 Core In Your FPGA

We are certainly spoiled by all the microcontroller options nowadays — which is a great problem to have. But between the good old 8-bit controllers and an increasing number of 32-bit varieties, it ...
EDN

Microcontroller interfaces ARM7 core with FPGA

Atmel’s ARM7-based AT91CAP7E microcontroller includes an FPGA interface, a six-layer AHB (advanced high-speed bus), a peripheral-DMA controller, and 160 kbytes of on-chip SRAM. The FPGA interface ...
Design News

Learning About FPGAs, Part 1

Field programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) are integrated circuits that provide the foundation to implement custom digital circuits. These highly customizable ICs make it possible to design complex ...
Hackaday

Using An FPGA To Glitch The Olimex LPC-P1343

After trying out hardware hacking using an FPGA to interface with target hardware, [Grazfather] was inspired to try using the iCEBreaker (one of the many hobbyist FPGAs to have recently flooded the ...
Electronic Design

FPGAs Build Bridges To Wireless Connectivity

The need for wireless connectivity in embedded systems is growing. In general, connectivity is becoming widespread as consumers and enterprises alike become accustomed to having continual access to ...
BizTech

What Is an FPGA? Understanding Field-Programmable Gate Arrays

Ernie Smith is a former contributor to BizTech, an old-school blogger who specializes in side projects, and a tech history nut who researches vintage operating systems for fun. When it comes to major ...
New Electronics

SEGGER Flashers get FPGA programming capabilities with Flasher BitStreame

SEGGER has announced the introduction of the Flasher BitStreamer, a new embedded software solution that expands the programming capabilities of its Flasher family of in-system programmers (ISPs).
Electronic Design

Take The FPGA Plunge

FPGAs are expensive... and hard to use... and too slow... and difficult to program... and hard to debug... and they draw too much power... and require register-transfer-level (RTL) wizards. That’s the ...
EDN

FPGAs don remote reprogram habits

Field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) are often used in embedded devices because they can be reprogrammed. The question is, how do you get the new program to the device when it is in the field? There ...
Design News

Design-In Spartan 7 FPGA Tile Speeds Embedded Project Development

In an earlier column (see "Embedded Dev Board Boasts Spartan 7 FPGA With Raspberry Pi Pico RP2040 MCU," I made mention of my friend Adam Taylor, who is the founder of a high-tech consultancy called ...
Network World

Intel updates FPGA product line

Intel refreshed its FPGA line-up with cost-optimized offerings, released its FPGA software stack as open source, and added a new processor design based on the RISC-V architecture. The first of the new ...