Hackaday

FPGA Snake Game Uses No VHDL At All

We’re really not supposed to start a feature like this; but this hack is awesome. It’s a game of Snake implemented by an FPGA dev board. It uses a 16×16 LED matrix as the display and an SNES ...
EDN

VHDL 101 – Introduction

Field-Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs) look like very complex integrated circuits. Performing bespoke functions and having engineers programming them in strange languages puts many people off. This is ...
Semiconductor Engineering

FPGA VHDL Verification

This is actually possible – and with an average efficiency improvement of 20% to 50% for medium to high complexity FPGAs. Less for data path oriented designs and more for control or protocol oriented ...
Hackaday

Programming FPGAs With Python

If you’ve ever wanted to jump into the world of FPGAs but don’t want to learn yet another language, you can now program an FPGA with Python. PyCPU converts very, very simple Python code into either ...
Electronic Design

11 Myths About High-Level-Synthesis Techniques for Programming FPGAs

The numbers of applications using FPGAs are on the rise. They have long been used for avionics and DSP-based applications, but are finding many new applications in which their flexible and ...
Design-Reuse

Altera Announces Industry's First OpenCL Program for FPGAs

San Jose, Calif., November 15, 2011—Altera Corporation (NASDAQ: ALTR) today announced a development program focused on the Open Computing Language (OpenCL™) standard for FPGAs and SoC FPGAs. The ...
Electronic Design

11 Myths About High-Level-Synthesis Techniques for Programming FPGAs (.PDF Download)

The numbers of applications using FPGAs are on the rise. They have long been used for avionics and DSP-based applications, but are finding many new applications in which their flexible and ...