System designers face a number of key questions during the architecture phase of their project. Increasingly one of these questions is whether to use an FPGA (field programmable gate array) or a DSP ...

The wireless communications technology explosion came at a near-perfect time for FPGA companies with access to leading-edge fabrication technology. Reductions in FPGA feature size to 0.18 micron and ...

Typically, DSP designers are unfamiliar with FPGA design tools, and FPGA designers are unfamiliar with DSP algorithms. But when Sandia National Laboratories needed to replace an analog implementation ...

In recent years, FPGAs (field-programmable gate arrays) have become increasingly attractive as signal processing engines, sometimes used alone and sometimes in conjunction with a processor chip. The ...

Hoping to make field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) an attractive alternative for emerging DSP applications, Xilinx Inc. has launched a major initiative to broaden the devices' role in the DSP arena ...

TL;DR: Ubitium is developing a Universal Processor that combines CPU, GPU, DSP, and FPGA into a single chip, aiming to revolutionize the market by reusing every transistor for multiple functions.

With the V5+C kit, software application developers who may be less familiar with low-level VHDL design methods can easily move ANSI C algorithms to an FPGA-accelerated platform. Experienced hardware ...

Build a high performance quad-channel H.264 encoder using lowcost, low power FPGAs to deliver higher resolutions and frame rates. Good techniques for FPGA implementations of the mod operation have ...

I've been thinking a little more about Afterburner and have wondered why Apple specifically chose to base it off of an FPGA IC instead of a traditional, higher level general purpose ASIC such as a DSP ...

The Agilex™ 5 product families are mid-range FPGAs and SoCs that are optimized for applications requiring high performance, lower power, and small package sizes: • Up to 2X better fabric ...

DSPs and FPGAs both offer advantages for signal processing. Here are the design guidelines you need to choose between DSPs, FPGAs, or a combination of the two. Topics covered include device cost, ...