Hackaday

Does The World Need An FPGA Arduino?

What would you get it you mashed up an FPGA and an Arduino? An FPGA development board with far too few output pins? Or a board in the form-factor of Arduino that’s impossible to program? The Alhambra ...
EDN

Solving FPGA I/O pin assignment challenges

Editor's Note: I've long been impressed by Xcell Journal from Xilinx, both for the quality of its production and the quality of its articles. A few weeks ago we looked at an article on Replacing ...
Hackaday

Dual Core Arduino For More Pins

There are easy ways of getting more I/O pins for any project; shift registers, I2C expanders, or ADCs will give you plenty of pins for whatever project you have in mind. All these require extra ...
EDN

Binding the “Ties that Break” – Getting FPGA and PCB designers to meet at the I/O pin negotiating table

With their zero NRE and shorter design cycles, FPGA's are steadily replacing ASIC's in mid-level commercial and even higher-volume consumer applications. But as FPGA usage has steadily grown, so have ...
Electronic Design

FPGA Design Tool Aids In I/O Assignments

The latest version of Xilinx’s PlanAhead hierarchical FPGA design and analysis software sports support for the company’s 65-nm Virtex-5 and Spartan-3 devices. Used with the Xilinx Integrated Software ...
Design-Reuse

A Reconfigurable System featuring Dynamically Extensible Embedded Microprocessor, FPGA and Customisable I/O

A system-chip targeting image and voice processing and recognition application domains is implemented as a representative of the potential of using programmable logic in system design. It features an ...
Geeky Gadgets

Alan Arduino Compatible Mircoprocessor And Xilinx FPGA (video)

Ewan Lister based in the UK has this created a new development board called the Alan which he has designed to help you expand the functionality of your projects. The Alan Arduino compatible ...
Electronic Design

Embedded: Module Blends USB With FPGA

Want to build a custom USB-based interface such as a USB-to-GPIB bridge? Check out the ZestSC1. The 7.5- by 12.5-cm module contains a USB controller, a Xilinx Spartan-3 1000 FPGA, 8 Mbytes of SRAM, ...
Bit-Tech

Arduino announces first FPGA-powered product

Arduino, the company behind the growing family of mostly-open microcontroller development boards bearing its name, has announced that it is getting into the entry-level field-programmable gate array ...
Design-Reuse

Solving FPGA I/O pin assignment challenges

A few weeks ago we looked at an article on Replacing obsolete video game circuits with Xilinx CPLDs, and now I'm delighted to have the opportunity to present the following piece from the Third Quarter ...