FPGAs can provide a fast, cost effective solution to many of today's complex demands for DSP functionality. However, many DSP engineers have traditionally focused on software, and may not know where ...

System designers face a number of key questions during the architecture phase of their project. Increasingly one of these questions is whether to use an FPGA (field programmable gate array) or a DSP ...

In considering the design option for DSP vs. FPGA it is helpful to compare both architectures in a FIR filter application, writes Reg Zatrepalek One of the most widely used digital signal-processing ...

Cofer and Harding discuss how to implement DSP functionality, covering when FPGAs are a good fit for DSP algorithm implementation and important design decisions and considerations. Each of these ...

Code:DSP Development Solution Enables System Designers to Build FPGA Co-Processors to Lower Design Costs and Improve System Performance San Jose, Calif., April 30, 2003— Altera Corporation (NASDAQ: ...

Over a third of FPGA users now integrate some form of digital signal processing (DSP) into their devices and this percentage is growing, according to Xilinx. And the DSP benchmarking company, BDTI, ...

SAN JOSE, USA: Altera Corp. changed the game as it relates to floating-point DSP performance in an FPGA. Altera is the first programmable logic company to integrate hardened IEEE 754-compliant, ...

In the next five years, there will be more wireless and digital communication standards, pervasive computing and widespread availability of data on the move. The growing requirements for processing ...

Using a design flow put together by Mentor Graphics and Altera, designers can implement complex DSP algorithms in high-performance FPGAs directly from ANSI C++ code. The flow, which is based on Altera ...

Described as the company's biggest move in digital signal processing since it started developing dsp48 slices, Xilinx has launched three dsp development kits which are said to further extend the ...