Hackaday

NEO430 Puts A Custom MSP430 Core In Your FPGA

We are certainly spoiled by all the microcontroller options nowadays — which is a great problem to have. But between the good old 8-bit controllers and an increasing number of 32-bit varieties, it ...
Electronic Design

Microchip Delivers RISC-V Hard-Core FPGA SoCs

Microchip’s PolarFire SoC that incorporated multiple, 64-bit hard RISC-V cores with its FPGA fabric was announced last year. The company’s announcement at this year’s RISC-V Summit includes delivery ...
Semiconductor Engineering

Adding NoCs To FPGA SoCs

FPGA SoCs straddle the line between flexibility and performance by combining elements of both FPGAs and ASICs. But as they find a home in more safety- and mission-critical markets, they also are ...
Electronic Design

Enhanced Logic, Clock Management Give FPGAs 500-MHz Internal Speed

Designing high-speed digital systems on FPGA platforms has always been challenging. The large amounts of routing required by SRAM-based FPGAs often limits system performance to well below that ...