Xilinx has announced immediate availability of its low cost Spartan-3A FPGA development kit for DDR2 SDRAM interfaces, the Virtex-5 FPGA development platform (ML-561) for multiple high-performance ...

At the recent Hot Chips conference, three of the world’s largest datacenter companies detailed projects that exploit Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs) as accelerators for performance-hungry ...

Today, TierLogic breaks out of its seven years in Stealth Mode to launch its 3D FPGAs. The company is open for business now, and is offering free NREs to early adopters. TierLogic’s approach is to ...

It’s been more than a month since teardown shops like iFixit and Chipworks took apart and dissected Apple’s iPhone 7. The biggest surprise remains Apple's decision to dual source its LTE modems from ...

Free software licenses and operating systems like GNU/Linux make it possible to learn programming and customize state-of-the-art software in countless ways. Hacking software, however, isn't the last ...

1. Embedded FPGAs must be expensive. An embedded FPGA is similar to an FPGA chip, but simpler and cheaper. An FPGA chip has 30% or more of its area consumed by the SerDes, PHYs, PLLs, etc., which aren ...

It seems like it wasn't too long ago that we crowned the Raspberry Pi 4 as one of the best retro game consoles around. Indeed, the Raspberry Pi foundation's latest single-board computer still a ...