It’s time to do a series on logic including things such as programmable logic, state machines, and the lesser known demons such as switching hazards. It is best to start at the beginning — but even ...

Ashish Dixit from Tensilica looks at multiple processor SoC design, and considers how the processor has become the basic building block The arrival of affordable multiprocessing in embedded systems ...

Like the chips in Xilinx Inc.'s Virtex 4 family, each Virtex 5 FPGA will include the logic fabric, blocks of dedicated RAM, dedicated but configurable blocks optimized for DSP algorithms, and lots of ...

This file type includes high-resolution graphics and schematics when applicable. The first FPGA was invented by Ross Freeman (cofounder of Xilinx) in 1985 and since then their logic capacity has ...

Many—maybe even most—SoC design teams use C or C++ to explore algorithms and the behavior of their system before they begin implementation. That makes it entirely natural for designers of new ...