Hackaday

Learn FPGA With This Persistence Of Vision Hack

Everybody wants to give FPGA development a try and here’s a great way to get into it. You can build your own Persistence of Vision display using a $30 dev board. It’s a fun project, and you’ll learn ...
The Next Platform

Microsoft Extends FPGA Reach From Bing To Deep Learning

After three years of research into how it might accelerate its Bing search engine using field programmable gate arrays (FPGAs), Microsoft came up with a scheme that would let it lash Stratix V devices ...
EDN

FPGA learning made easy with a virtual university program

Altera University aims to affordably and easily introduce students to the world of FPGAs and digital logic programming tools by unveiling the curriculum, tutorials, and lab exercises that bridge the ...
Hackaday

Learn FPGA Programming From The 1940s

We often think that not enough people are building things with FPGAs. We also love the retrotechtacular posts on old computer hardware. So it was hard to pass up [karlwoodward’s] post about the Chip ...
EDN

A Breakthrough in FPGA-Based Deep Learning Inference

Mipsology’s Zebra Deep Learning inference engine is designed to be fast, painless, and adaptable, outclassing CPU, GPU, and ASIC competitors. I recently attended the 2018 Xilinx Development Forum (XDF ...
Geeky Gadgets

Logitraxx Tracked Robot Kit Lets You Learn About FPGAs (video)

Makers and hobbyists that enjoys building robotic kit, might enjoy this new Logitraxx tracked robot kit that has been created by Shane Lewis and has just launched over on the Kickstarter crowd funding ...
Semiconductor Engineering

Deep Learning Hardware: FPGA vs. GPU

FPGAs or GPUs, that is the question. Since the popularity of using machine learning algorithms to extract and process the information from raw data, it has been a race between FPGA and GPU vendors to ...
Semiconductor Engineering

Applying Machine Learning to EDA, FPGA Design Automation Tools

A technical paper titled “Application of Machine Learning in FPGA EDA Tool Development” was published by researchers at the University of Texas Dallas. “With the recent advances in hardware ...
The Next Platform

LEARN HOW FPGA-BASED PCIE CARDS CAN ACCELERATE YOUR APPLICATIONS

In this webinar, you will learn how to leverage FPGA-based PCIe accelerator cards to achieve 10-100x increase in performance vs. CPU-only based systems for compute, network, storage and sensor ...
Electronic Design

FPGA Highways Speed Machine Learning and Communication

Today’s high-speed FPGAs have a passing similarity to their older counterparts. However, large arrays of identical lookup tables (LUTs) and interconnect fabrics have given way to high-speed, ...