FPGA / PLD

Lattice Semiconductor is aiming at system control with a family of FPGAs that includes PCIe Gen 2 interfacing and embedded security. MachXO5T-NX, as they are called, are suited to “a set of control function designs for enterprise networking, machine vision and industrial IoT”, it said. They are built using the company’s FDSoI process (image right), which can dramatically reduce soft ...

Fraunhofer Institute for Microelectronic Circuits and Systems IMS has had a version of its 32bit AIRisc RISC-V microcontroller intellectual property certified by by TÜV SGS to the ISO 26262 ASIL-D automotive safety standard. Called AIRisc-Safety, it can now be licensed from the organisation, which also offers customised versions for asic and FPGA integration. “Certification means that industrial customers directly receive a ...

Working with FPGAs allows architects and designers to deliver end-to-end security without sacrificing efficiency for telecom innovations, says Bob O’Donnell of TECHnalysis Research. Telecommunication vendors are in the middle of two technological revolutions that are driving the industry forward – the evolution of 5G networks and the transition to open radio access network (oran) architectures. Network architects are no longer ...

Digi-Key has announced it will host a RVfpga webinar, in collaboration with Imagination Technologies, on the topic of understanding RISC-V architecture and implementation on an FPGA. Running on Wednesday 23 February, at 2 p.m. CST, it will be presented by Dr. Sarah Harris, associate professor of electrical and computer engineering at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. Specifically, the webinar ...

An edge inference accelerator developed by Flexlogix has a 4k MAC dynamic tensor processor array and is optimised for Mpixel image processing models in medical, surveillance and IoT applications. The InferX X1 edge inference accelerator is designed for processing real-time Mpixel vision workloads which requires high bandwidth support for deep learning models which operate with small batch sizes in real ...

At DAC, French embedded FPGA (eFPGA) supplier, Menta, introduced what it claims is the first eFPGA soft IP. It  enables designers to perform closure directly at the top level. This is significant for AI, as well as space and defence projects, which rely on low latency, explained Yoan Dupret, Menta’s managing director and CEO.   Since 2013, Menta’s technology has ...

Following its created in April this year, the Open Source FPGA Foundation was at DAC (Design Automation Conference) to advocate for innovation with open source tools and wrestle control from what has been a largely unchanged FPGA space for 30 years. The fledging non-profit foundation has over 20 members from academia and more than 1,000 individual members worldwide, said CEO, ...

Digi-Key Electronics has partnered with Make – the publishers behind the maker magazines and books – to release an augmented reality (AR) app to accompany its 2021 Boards Guide. Divided into sections for microcontroller (MCU), single-board controller (SBC) and field programmable gate array (FPGA)-based boards, the guide helps students, makers and professional engineers navigate the latest technology for their possible ...

Digi-Key Electronics and the FPGA and embedded FPGA IP company QuickLogic are partnering to sell IoT and AI technology through the DigiKey Marketplace. Specifically, the agreement covers QuickLogic’s low power, multi-core MCU, FPGAs and embedded FPGAs, voice and sensor processing products. For example, included are the EOS S3 MCU Sensor Processing Platform, EOS S3-AI, EOS S3 Voice + Sensor Hub, ...

Claiming to be able to reduce design compile times by a factor of five, Xilinx has launched the Vivado ML Editions tool suite. The latest addition to the company’s Vivado tool suite is believed to be the first FPGA EDA tool suite based on machine learning (ML) optimisation algorithms. In addition to faster compile times, it is claimed to deliver ...