Hackaday

Learning Verilog For FPGAs: The Tools And Building An Adder

Over the last year we’ve had several posts about the Lattice Semiconductor iCEstick which is shown below. The board looks like an overgrown USB stick with no case, but it is really an FPGA development ...
EDN

Mentor tool links FPGA, pcb design

SANTA CRUZ, Calif. — Mentor Graphics Corp. will roll out a tool this week that it says will enable concurrent FPGA and board design. I/O Designer lets those designing printed-circuit boards ...
Hackaday

Mithro Runs Down Open Source FPGA Toolchains

Tim [Mithro] Ansell has a lot to tell you about the current state of open FPGA tooling: 115 slides in 25 minutes if you’re counting. His SymbiFlow project aims to be the GCC of FPGA toolchains: ...
Electronics Weekly

Software links FPGA and PCB tools

A tool linking programmable logic design and PCB layout has been unveiled by Mentor Graphics. John Isaac, director of market development at Mentor, said the I/O Designer software would “provide for ...
Electronics Weekly

Third-party tools boost FPGAs

The FPGA tool market-place is a hive of activity with products popping up from chip firms as well as the third-party community. Called the Low Power RDK, it “lets designers directly measure actual ...
EDN

Mentor introduces next generation FPGA synthesis tool

SAN MATEO, Calif. — Stepping up its efforts in the FPGA tools space, Mentor Graphics Corp. is essentially phasing out its Leonardo Spectrum FPGA synthesis tool in favor of a new, more updated and ...
Design-Reuse

Synplicity adds IP savvy to FPGA synthesis tool

SAN MATEO, Calif. — Synplicity Inc. has enhanced its Synplify Pro FPGA synthesis tool to better support designers integrating intellectual property (IP) cores into high-density FPGAs. Key new features ...
Design-Reuse

M2000 starts offering IP cores and tools that marry ASIC and FPGA design

San Jose, Calif. - More than a few chip companies have tried their hand at embedding blocks of FPGA logic into otherwise-hardwired ASIC devices. Startup M2000 says it wants to be the first to make a ...
New Electronics

Aldec fpga simulation technology added to Altium Designer

Altium and Aldec have signed an OEM agreement that adds Aldec's fpga simulation capabilities to Altium Designer. The agreement adds an extra dimension for electronics designers working with fpgas and ...
Electronic Design

Xilinx And Synopsys Collaborate On Tool Flow For Platform FPGAs

Time-saving verification tools have been added to an advanced tool flow for high-end FPGA design. The flow, a collaboration between Xilinx Inc. of San Jose and Synopsys Inc. of Mountain View, Calif., ...