Configurable analog ICs have been available in various forms for years, seemingly making less of an impression on the market than their digital cousins, FPGAs (field-programmable gate arrays). The ...

Semiconductor company Xilinx is taking the wraps off of its software programmable chip design that it claims is part of an entirely new computing category. It's called the Adaptive Compute ...

ICs and SoCs are utilizing a range of processing elements that allow them to optimize current workloads while hedging their bets for the future. What used to be a simple choice between an ASIC, FPGA, ...

Configurable logic blocks (CLBs) house the logic for the FPGA. Typically, these CLBs contain enough logic to create a small state machine. A CLB normally contains RAM to create arbitrary combinatorial ...

Intel Corp. today announced plans to spin out its programmable chip unit as a standalone business, and will treat it as a separate entity going forward. Ultimately, the chip giant aims to hold an ...

Xilinx, whose programmable chips are often used as prototypes for next-generation networking products, is teaming with IBM's Microelectronics unit in a move that could lead to more powerful chips for ...

A couple of weeks ago SDxCentral learned that Marvell was discontinuing the Xpliant programmable chip line it got through its acquisition of Cavium. And the news provoked readers to ask: “What does ...

Efinix is trying to make these chips small and efficient enough for factory sensors and smartphones, which usually defer machine learning tasks to the cloud. The goal is to make these chips small and ...

The advent of big data era raising significant challenges in information processing, especially in the aspect of capacity and power consumption. Situations become even worse when we consider the fact ...

Advances in silicon photonics, compound III–V semiconductor technology and hybrid integration now mean that powerful, programmable optical integrated circuits could be within sight. The recent ...