EDN

FPGA synthesis can be a leverage point in your design flow

FPGA design starts are on the rise due to the lower startup costs and re-programmability that FPGA devices can provide. However, large, complex FPGA devices pose significant challenges to an FPGA ...
Semiconductor Engineering

Why Your FPGA Synthesis Flow Requires Verification

When you think about it, logic synthesis is a vital but rather intimidating part of modern chip design. This process takes a high-level description of intended functionality, written in an RTL ...
EDN

Mentor introduces next generation FPGA synthesis tool

SAN MATEO, Calif. — Stepping up its efforts in the FPGA tools space, Mentor Graphics Corp. is essentially phasing out its Leonardo Spectrum FPGA synthesis tool in favor of a new, more updated and ...
Electronic Design

C Synthesis Nurtures FPGA Development

This Synthesis-Tool Package Gives The Designer An Inexpensive And Effective Method For Evaluating C-Based Methodologies. The design starts that use reconfigurable processors—namely field-programmable ...
Business Wire

Lattice Semiconductor and Synopsys Renew Partnership on FPGA Synthesis Tools

HILLSBORO, Ore.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Lattice Semiconductor Corporation (NASDAQ: LSCC), the low power programmable leader, and Synopsys, Inc. (NASDAQ: SNPS) today announced the extension of their ...
Electronic Design

FPGA Synthesis Speeds Up And Spreads Out

As designers well know, today’s FPGAs are large enough to swallow a lot of functionality, which is a good thing. The bad news is that going from RTL to a bit file for these big chips is starting to ...
Embedded

Tackle team-based FPGA design

You see them at almost every user seminar or industry trade show workshop: the Methodology Managers from XYZ Corporation, who describe the system they use to help the company make sense of the ...
Semiconductor Engineering

Logic Synthesis Basics For FPGA

In the early days of digital design, all circuits were designed manually. You would draw K-map, optimize the logic and draw the schematics. If you remember, we all ...
Nasdaq

Microchip Acquires High-Level Synthesis Tool Provider LegUp to Simplify Development of PolarFire® FPGA-based Edge Compute Solutions

Software engineers can now map applications coded in C/C++ directly into PolarFire FPGAs and SoCs that are the industry’s lowest-power mid-range fabric solutions for acceleration CHANDLER, Ariz., Oct.