EDN

FPGA synthesis can be a leverage point in your design flow

FPGA design starts are on the rise due to the lower startup costs and re-programmability that FPGA devices can provide. However, large, complex FPGA devices pose significant challenges to an FPGA ...
EDN

Mentor introduces next generation FPGA synthesis tool

SAN MATEO, Calif. — Stepping up its efforts in the FPGA tools space, Mentor Graphics Corp. is essentially phasing out its Leonardo Spectrum FPGA synthesis tool in favor of a new, more updated and ...
Electronic Design

C Synthesis Nurtures FPGA Development

This Synthesis-Tool Package Gives The Designer An Inexpensive And Effective Method For Evaluating C-Based Methodologies. The design starts that use reconfigurable processors—namely field-programmable ...
Electronic Design

Equivalence Checker For FPGAs Unearths Synthesis Errors

FPGAs, popular as they are these days for prototyping and/or production runs, come with their own little quirks. One of those is the nagging tendency for functional errors to appear in synthesis and ...
Business Wire

Lattice Semiconductor and Synopsys Renew Partnership on FPGA Synthesis Tools

HILLSBORO, Ore.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Lattice Semiconductor Corporation (NASDAQ: LSCC), the low power programmable leader, and Synopsys, Inc. (NASDAQ: SNPS) today announced the extension of their ...
Semiconductor Engineering

Logic Synthesis Basics For FPGA

In the early days of digital design, all circuits were designed manually. You would draw K-map, optimize the logic and draw the schematics. If you remember, we all ...
Nasdaq

Microchip Acquires High-Level Synthesis Tool Provider LegUp to Simplify Development of PolarFire® FPGA-based Edge Compute Solutions

Software engineers can now map applications coded in C/C++ directly into PolarFire FPGAs and SoCs that are the industry’s lowest-power mid-range fabric solutions for acceleration CHANDLER, Ariz., Oct.
Embedded

Tackle team-based FPGA design

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 ...
Semiconductor Engineering

FPGA Equivalence Checking For A Nuclear Safety Controller

Every chip development team wants to find and fix all the bugs they possibly can in pre-silicon verification. Turning a chip to fix issues found in the bring-up lab incurs high costs and product ...