EDN

How to implement DSP algorithms using the Xilinx Spartan-3E starter board

Editor's Note: This “How To” tutorial is an excerpt from a recently published book: Embedded Design Using Programmable Gate Arrays by Dennis Silage (ISBN-13: 978-1589094864). Dennis is a Professor in ...
EDN

Xilinx adds new variant to Spartan FPGA family

San Jose—Xilinx Inc. this week will unveil the newest variant of its low-cost Spartan FPGA (field programmable gate array) family. The new Spartan 3E device family continues to reduce the price per ...
Hackaday

Xilinx FPGAs In C For Free

When you think of developing with FPGAs, you usually think of writing Verilog or VHDL. However, there’s been a relatively recent trend to use C to describe what an FPGA should do and have tools that ...
Design-Reuse

Xilinx Spartan-3 FPGAs Enable Latest Digital Audio Products for Touring Musicians

SAN JOSE, Calif., Sept 28, 2005 -- Xilinx, Inc. (Nasdaq: XLNX) and Lab X Technologies, LLC, a leading engineering design firm serving the audio industry, today announced the successful deployment of ...
Hackaday

Tiny Cray-1 Courtesy Of An FPGA

[Chris Fenton] spent a year and a half constructing a 1/10th scale Cray-1 reproduction. The famous supercomputer was meticulously modelled in a field programmable gate array for a “nearly ...
Geeky Gadgets

Logitraxx Robot Kit Built On Xilinx Spartan 6 FPGA Available From $230 (video)

A new robot kit has been unveiled this week in the form of the Logitraxx Robot Kit built on Xilinx Spartan 6 FPGA, and which is now available to purchase from $230. The Logitraxx Robot Kit has been ...
Electronic Design

Xilinx introduces automotive-qualified XA Spartan-3A and Spartan-3A DSP FPGAs

Xilinx (www.xilinx.com) has introduced Automotive (XA) Spartan-3A and Spartan-3A digital signal processor field programmable gate arrays (DSP FPGAs) for input/output (I/O) intensive thin film ...