The Next Platform

The Other Cray Launches CPU-FPGA Hybrids

Everybody who is operating at any sort of scale is looking to pack more compute into a smaller space for less money. At The Next Platform, we watch the goings on in the hyperscale and HPC arenas to ...
Hackaday

Open Source FPGA Toolchain Builds CPU

When you develop software, you need some kind of toolchain. For example, to develop for an ARM processor, you need a suitable C compiler, a linker, a library, and a programmer. FPGAs use a similar set ...
The Next Platform

Giving SmartNICs Bigger FPGA And CPU Brains

The lines between a server, a SmartNIC, and a Data Processing Unit, or DPU, are getting fuzzier, and the good news is that definitions do not matter nearly as much as use cases. And with its so-called ...
EDN

FPGA/processor combinations change the game

Some interesting FPGA/processor combinations have been announced recently. Intel announced Atom processors that include an Altera FPGA and meanwhile Xilinx announced FPGAs with a hard ARM Cortex-A9 ...
Hackaday

Zork Comes To Custom FPGA CPU (Again)

[Robert Baruch] wanted to tackle a CPU project using an FPGA. One problem you always have is you can either mimic something that has tools and applications or you can go your own way and just build ...
Embedded

CPU plus FPGA design flow for software developers: A new tangible reality

Recently, Brian Bailey organized a round table that resulted in a two-part article called Supporting CPUs Plus FPGAs. The experts discussed the evolving reality of systems design based on FPGAs and ...
Circuit Digest

Vicharak’s FPGA Boards Start at 349 Rupees and Scale as You Skill Up

Backing its low-cost positioning, the board relies on a fully open-source toolchain. Also, while not official yet, Akshar ...
HotHardware

AMD Patent Reveals Hybrid CPU-FPGA Design That Could Be Enabled By Xilinx Tech

While they often aren’t as great as CPUs on their own, FPGAs can do a wonderful job accelerating specific tasks. Whether it's accelerating acting as a fabric for wide-scale datacenter services ...
Network World

Intel plans hybrid CPU-FPGA chips

Two years ago, Intel spent $16.7 billion to acquire FPGA chip vendor Altera. So, what’s it going to do with that big purchase? The company is finally ready to say. A field-programmable gate array, or ...
EDN

FPGA Soft Processor Design Considerations

With so many available processor design options design teams must make the difficult decision to choose the solution that best fits their specific project requirements, while supporting extended ...
Semiconductor Engineering

Supporting CPUs Plus FPGAs (Part 3)

While it has been possible to pair a CPU and FPGA for quite some time, two things have changed recently. First, the industry has reduced the latency of the connection between them and second, we now ...
Business Wire

Tachyum Unveils Prodigy Universal Processor FPGA Emulation Prototype

LAS VEGAS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Tachyum™ Inc. today announced the upcoming availability of its Prodigy Universal Processor prototype, built using field-programmable gate array (FPGA) emulation boards. The ...