EDN

DSP or FPGA? How to choose the right device

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 ...
EDN

Optimizing DSP functions in advanced FPGA architectures

Although FFT and FIR filters may seem complex, in reality they use simple add/subtract/multiply operations. So how can these arithmetic modules, along with shift and pipeline registers in modern FPGAs ...
Electronic Design

PCs Bridge The Gap Between DSP And FPGA Designers

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 ...
TweakTown

Ubitium announces 'universal processor': combines CPU, GPU, DSP, FPGA in a single RISC-V chip

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.
Electronic Design

Flow Implements C++ DSP Algorithms in FPGAs

Using a design flow put together by Mentor Graphics and Altera, designers can implement complex DSP algorithms in high-performance FPGAs directly from ANSI C++ code. The flow, which is based on Altera ...
Semiconductor Engineering

Fully Reconfigurable DSP: As Fast As Hardwired At ~2x Area/Power

What we hear from customers is that there is a growing need for very fast and very flexible DSP, which hardwired solutions can’t address. And that the fastest solutions are FPGAs, but they are big, ...
Electronics Weekly

CT-JPEG04 core for Sundance modular DSP FPGA multiprocessor systems

Sundance has extended its partnership with IP firm Cadre Codesign to offer the firm’s CT-JPEG04 core across a range of its modular DSP FPGA multiprocessor hardware systems. Based on the JPEG ISO/IEC ...
电子工程专辑

Altera Agilex™ 5 FPGA and SoC

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 ...
Design-Reuse

Xilinx Adds Greater Power Efficiency to High Performance Spartan-3A DSP Platform FPGAs

SAN JOSE, Calif., July 23, 2007 – Xilinx, Inc. today announced the addition of power efficient Spartan™-3A DSP devices to its XtremeDSP™ portfolio of solutions for signal processing applications ...
Design-Reuse

Altera and Mango DSP Announce Bluejay Video Processing Board Featuring Stratix II FPGAs

San Jose, Calif., June 13, 2005—Altera Corporation (NASDAQ: ALTR) and Mango DSP Incorporated, a leading maker of high-performance digital signal processing (DSP) development boards, today announced ...
Ars Technica

Let's talk Afterburner: Could Apple release a specialized HDL 'toolkit' for Xcode?

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 ...
Houston Chronicle

(PRN) TMS320C6455 DSP Enables a Robust Serial RapidIO Ecosystem Driving Higher Bandwidth Interconnect

TI Announces Sampling of TMS320C6455 DSPs and a New EVM Providing 10 Gb/s Serial RapidIO(R) for Video, Telecom and Imaging Infrastructure Applications DALLAS, Feb. 28 /PRNewswire/ -- Continuing its ...