EDN

Actel taps ARM core crafted for FPGAs

Madison, Ala. — ARM Ltd. today will announce the Cortex-M1, the first ARM soft core to be designed from the ground up for use in FPGAs. Actel Corp. has signed on as the lead FPGA partner and the first ...
Hackaday

ARM core

In a surprising move, ARM has made two Cortex-M cores available for FPGA development at no cost. In the over three decades since [Sophie Wilson] created the first ARM processor design for the Acorn ...
Embedded

Actel, ARM put soft CPU in FPGA

FREMONT, Calif. Actel Corp. and ARM Ltd. will announce Monday (March 7) a collaboration that has led to the first certified ARM CPU core available as soft IP for implementation in an FPGA. Previously, ...
EDN

System Update – FPGA DSP, OpenCL; 14nm ARM core; Free dev tools

Altera announced results of a benchmark study performed by Berkeley Design Technology Inc. (BDTI) on implementing floating-point DSP designs on Altera 28 nm FPGAs. As much an examination of Altera’s ...
Electronic Design

FPGA Module Combines FPGA with an ARM Core Processor

The proFPGA ZynqTM 7000 FPGA Module from PRO DESIGN is a complete embedded processing platform for the development and verification of SoC and IP design. The proFPGA ZynqTM 7000 FPGA Module from PRO ...
Hexus

Intel sampling 14nm Stratix 10 FPGA with ARM cores and HBM2

Intel has announced that it has started sampling Stratix 10 field programmable arrays (FPGA chips) to customers. The chip is significant as "the industry’s first 14nm FPGA," but not only that - it is ...
Design-Reuse

ARM show new AMBA specs: think FPGAs and multicore

ARM this morning took the wraps off its plans for release of a new silicon interconnect specification: AMBA 4. The company intends to publicly describe AMBA 4 in two phases during this year. IP ...
TechRepublic

Implementation of Multi-Threading on Hybrid ARM Cortex Dual Core A9-FPGA Architecture for Energy Efficiency

One of the greatest challenges of FPGA is the crave for a platform, which runs a system, handles a software and co-ordinates exchange with peripherals. To explore this advantage on FPGA with energy ...
PC World

Intel looks beyond x86, puts 64-bit ARM processor in new FPGA chip

It seems like the chip war between Intel and ARM is slowly winding down, at least for the time being. Intel for decades has doggedly sworn by chips based on its homegrown x86 architecture, but the ...
Design-Reuse

NEWS ANALYSIS - Xilinx puts ARM core into its FPGAs

My first reaction was, "It's about time." My second reaction was, "I hope they did it right." Let me explain. Xilinx, considered by many to be the market leader for FPGAs, had a hole in its lineup, at ...
Hackaday

A Xilinx Zynq Linux FPGA Board For Under $20? The Windfall Of Decommissioned Crypto Mining

One of the exciting trends in hardware availability is the inexorable move of FPGA boards and modules towards affordability. What was once an eye-watering price is now merely an expensive one, and no ...