In an article titled EDA tools for FPGA running out of gas Mark LaPedus reports comments made by Simon Bloch, vice president and general manager of the Design and Synthesis Division for Mentor ...

There are reported to be hundreds of thousands of designers working with FPGAs and programmable logic – most of them using the free or very low cost tools from the device vendors. But a rapid ...

Mentor Graphics has been going head to head with Synplicity in the FPGA-synthesis market for well over a decade. Now Mentor hopes to grab a greater share of that market with a new version of its ...

Metal Copy-28 Matches 28nm FPGA Capabilities, While Significantly Reducing Power Consumption and at a Fraction of the FPGA Unit Price Metal Copy is a low risk and efficient FPGA to ASIC conversion.

We like the ICE40 FPGA from Lattice for two reasons: there are cheap development boards like the Icestick available for it and there are open source tools. We’ve based several tutorials on the ...

When pondering your next-generation system design, you may ask yourself whether the spiraling mask costs have priced you out of the ASIC game. You'll perform the requisite analyses of performance ...

Tooling-up for FPGA design has become a serious business on a par with Asic. The flowsare similar and some tools, such as those used in verification, are now common to both.Physical synthesis for ...

Lattice Diamond software tool for low power FPGA design receives IEC 61508 (Industrial) and ISO 26262 (Automotive) Certifications Certification of design tool accelerates time-to-market for ...

Over a third of all high-end ASIC designers now use FPGAs for prototyping 500,000-plus-gate designs. Driving this trend is the fact that a median application-specific integrated-circuit (ASIC) design ...

Digital systems need clocks. Today’s designs require more from clocking schemes than ever before, and it’s likely this trend will continue. Increasing power constraints have resulted in finer-grained ...

A field programmable gate array (FPGA) is a user-programmable piece of silicon constructed in very large-scale integration (VLSI) technology. The VLSI transistor-level detail is absolutely predefined ...