EDN

Cadence links FPGA-pin allocation to PCB-layout tools

Designers who use today’s large FPGAs on their PCBs (printed-circuit boards) face an increasing problem: handling the pinout and board tracking around the packages of these programmable devices. The ...
EDN

Implementing an FPGA / PCB co-design process

Intelligent design of the FPGA interface is an imperative when using FPGA devices to meet leading-edge system interface requirements such as DDR3. An FPGA interface design without PCB process ...
Electronic Design

FPGA Q&A: Lattice Semiconductor

Electronic Design held a series of Q&A sessions with several major FPGA companies. Here, our roundtable discussion with Lattice Semiconductor included Bertrand Leigh, director of applications ...
Design-Reuse

FPGA prototyping of complex SoCs: Partitioning and Timing Closure Challenges with Solutions

In the nanometer era, complex SoCs have higher risk of re-spins. Undoubtedly FPGA prototyping is the right way of pre-silicon SoC validation, accelerate system software development and to meet time-to ...
Electronic Design

Prototyping Systems: JESD204B Converters And FPGAs

The selection criteria for analog-to-digital converters (ADCs) and digital-to-analog converters (DACs) can seem overwhelming at first. There is a broad array of analog requirements for sample rate, ...