Ok, we’ll admit it. We like FPGAs because it reminds us of wiring up a 100-in-1 kit when we were kids. But the truth is, many projects are just as well off to have a CPU. But there’s a real sweet spot ...

When you develop software, you need some kind of toolchain. For example, to develop for an ARM processor, you need a suitable C compiler, a linker, a library, and a programmer. FPGAs use a similar set ...

Some interesting FPGA/processor combinations have been announced recently. Intel announced Atom processors that include an Altera FPGA and meanwhile Xilinx announced FPGAs with a hard ARM Cortex-A9 ...

LAS VEGAS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Tachyum™ Inc. today announced the upcoming availability of its Prodigy Universal Processor prototype, built using field-programmable gate array (FPGA) emulation boards. The ...

Two years ago, Intel spent $16.7 billion to acquire FPGA chip vendor Altera. So, what’s it going to do with that big purchase? The company is finally ready to say. A field-programmable gate array, or ...

WTF?! Many people have probably heard of FPGA from its applications for legacy hardware emulation. A recent FPGA demonstration, however, managed to run a simple game utilizing ray tracing - something ...

With so many available processor design options design teams must make the difficult decision to choose the solution that best fits their specific project requirements, while supporting extended ...

While they often aren’t as great as CPUs on their own, FPGAs can do a wonderful job accelerating specific tasks. Whether it's accelerating acting as a fabric for wide-scale datacenter services ...

When Intel bought Altera last year, there was speculation on how we'd see future FPGA products fit within Intel's existing product lines. Intel has previously stated it intends to offer a Xeon ...

The lines between a server, a SmartNIC, and a Data Processing Unit, or DPU, are getting fuzzier, and the good news is that definitions do not matter nearly as much as use cases. And with its so-called ...