RICHARDSON, TX. Newly released support for Microsemi FPGAs and SoCs on ASSET InterTech’s ScanWorks can decrease programming times for SPI flash memory devices to the point where inline programming on ...

FPGAs are being chosen more and more frequently to comprise the heart of the modern electronic system. There are several possible reasons for this – low cost, ready availability and increasing ...

FlashPro4 is hardware programmer supporting Actel's flash FPGAs: the IGLOO series and ProASIC3 series (including RT ProASIC3), SmartFusion and Actel Fusion families. It also supports FPGA embedded ...

It’s been a few years since the introduction of the first Open Source toolchain for FPGAs. You would think a free and Open way to program FPGAs would be a boon for hardware development, but so far ...

Higher mask cost and increasing minimum lot sizes, two economic trends of the semiconductor industry, are making FPGAs increasingly more cost effective compared to the competing ASIC solutions. As a ...

The substantial growth experienced by the portable point-of-sale (POS) market has combined with the falling cost of wireless networking to make portable POS terminals popular. However, these devices ...

SEGGER has announced the introduction of the Flasher BitStreamer, a new embedded software solution that expands the programming capabilities of its Flasher family of in-system programmers (ISPs).

Free software licenses and operating systems like GNU/Linux make it possible to learn programming and customize state-of-the-art software in countless ways. Hacking software, however, isn't the last ...

Microsemi's IGLOO2 flash-based FPGAs incorporate differential power analysis countermeasure technology to prevent counterfeiting and hardware attacks. Figure 1. The IGLOO2 FPGA uses an instant-on, ...

The quest for better throughput, faster changeover times, and less waste and downtimes has made machine-automation systems more complicated. Besides handling logic or process controls, systems today ...