The introduction to FPGA Design – Best Practices for Team-based Design by Philip Simpson of Altera, promises the book will “help you adopt the best design methodology to meet your requirements.” It ...

[Roland Lutz] gave a talk about FPGA design using the free tools for Lattice devices at the MetaRheinMainChaosDays conference this year. You can see the video below. It’s a great introduction to FPGAs ...

An FPGA and VHDL Awareness seminar organised by the Electronics Design Technology Support Centre for Scotland at SAMC, Livingston will take place on 17th and 18th June. Day one of the 2-day course ...

There are a lot of great Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) articles; however, it can be challenging to find ones written for beginners. I wrote this article to help beginners understand basic FPGA ...

This course will give you the foundation for using Hardware Description Languages, specifically VHDL and Verilog for Logic Design. You will learn the history of both VHDL and Verilog and how to use ...

Are methodology manuals selfishly motivated by the vendors who produce them? Sure they are, but that doesn't mean there's nothing in it for you as a design engineer. Here's an introduction to the FPGA ...

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 ...

You see them at almost every user seminar or industry trade show workshop: the Methodology Managers from XYZ Corporation, who describe the system they use to help the company make sense of the ...

With the increasing size and complexity of FPGA devices, there is a need for more efficient verification methods. Timing simulation can be the most revealing verification method; however, it is often ...

The availability of the ARM Cortex-M0 processor within ARM’s DesignStart portal makes designing and prototyping a Cortex-M0 based system-on-chip (SoC) much easier. Quick and free-of-charge access to ...