Semiconductor Engineering

New Embedded FPGA Compiler Maximizes IP Implementation Efficiency

When designing IP for system-on-chip (SoC) and application-specific integrated circuit (ASIC) implementations, IP designers strive for perfection. Optimal engineering often yields the smallest die ...
Design-Reuse

FPGA Implementation of DLX Microprocessor With WISHBONE SoC Bus

DLX is an open source microprocessor, it’s free and it has never been implemented in a commercial ASIC (Application Specific Integrated Circuit) design. The objective of this project is to use the ...
Electronic Design

Design Tool Streamlines SoC FPGA Application Creation

Xilinx’s SDSoC represents a major shift in support for SoC FPGAs. It opens FPGA development to software developers without requiring a major investment in time and effort to utilize the hardware ...
Design And Reuse

CAST Introduces PSI5-HOST IP Core for Automotive Sensor Interfaces

Semiconductor intellectual property provider CAST today announced the PSI5-HOST Peripheral Sensor Interface 5 Host Controller ...
Electronic Design

Solutions Mitigate Mixed-Signal SoC Implementation Headaches

The concept of silicon realization, as defined in the Cadence EDA360 vision paper, represents everything required to produce a system-on-a-chip (SoC) design in silicon. 1 Silicon realization addresses ...
Semiconductor Engineering

Using FPGAs For Emulation

For many years, emulators were available only to verification teams working on the largest projects in companies with deep enough pockets. Due to size rather than capabilities they were called “Big ...