FPGAs continue to advance, enabling ever more integration of programmable technologies into the heart of embedded systems. Today’s high-performance FPGAs boast hundreds of thousands of programmable ...

Before I tell you what I’m about to tell you, let’s first refresh our minds as to RISC-V processors. Why? Well, because even though what I’m about to tell you has nothing to do with RISC-V per se, in ...

For the retro gaming enthusiast, nothing beats original hardware. The feel of the controllers and the exact timing of the original, non-emulated software provide a certain experience that’s difficult ...

Microchip Technology has announced significant advancements in its Radiation-Tolerant (RT) PolarFire® technology, achieving MIL-STD-883 Class B and QML Class Q qualifications for the RT PolarFire ...

In an earlier column (see "Embedded Dev Board Boasts Spartan 7 FPGA With Raspberry Pi Pico RP2040 MCU," I made mention of my friend Adam Taylor, who is the founder of a high-tech consultancy called ...

Microchip Technology Inc. has announced that its radiation-tolerant (RT) PolarFire RTPF500ZT FPGA has achieved MIL-STD-883 Class B and QML Class Q qualification. The company also released engineering ...

PCI-SIG’s Peripheral Component Interconnect Express Gen5 (PCIe Gen5) is a system protocol used primarily for data transfers at high rates in systems. A transfer rate of 32 Gb/s can be achieved by PCIe ...

ThreadX from Express Logic now works with the Xilinx Embedded Development Kit 6.1i (EDK) and supports the Xilinx 32-bit MicroBlaze soft processor. The MicroBlaze processor uses a Harvard-style RISC ...

Altera – Intel’s standalone company focused on FPGA hardware – introduced an array of FPGA hardware, software, and services at its annual developer conference. Nine months ago, Intel spun out Altera ...