Editor's Note: I've long been impressed by Xcell Journal from Xilinx, both for the quality of its production and the quality of its articles. A few weeks ago we looked at an article on Replacing ...

With their zero NRE and shorter design cycles, FPGA's are steadily replacing ASIC's in mid-level commercial and even higher-volume consumer applications. But as FPGA usage has steadily grown, so have ...

Like many of us, [Jon] began his journey through the magical world of microcontrollers with an Arduino. For a beginner, the Arduino is a wonderful tool, but [Jon] quickly found himself limited by the ...

Ewan Lister based in the UK has this created a new development board called the Alan which he has designed to help you expand the functionality of your projects. The Alan Arduino compatible ...

There are easy ways of getting more I/O pins for any project; shift registers, I2C expanders, or ADCs will give you plenty of pins for whatever project you have in mind. All these require extra ...

Introduced as a standalone, no-bus version of the FPGA-based Anything I/O card series, the 7I60 I/O card provides 96 I/O bits and four serial ports: two RS-232 and two RS-485. One RS-232 port is used ...

The latest version of Xilinx’s PlanAhead hierarchical FPGA design and analysis software sports support for the company’s 65-nm Virtex-5 and Spartan-3 devices. Used with the Xilinx Integrated Software ...

The ButterStick is an ECP5 FPGA-based development board from Greg Davill (also the creator of the Orange Crab). Building from the previously released OrangeCrab, the ButterStick’s primary focus is ...

Arduino, the company behind the growing family of mostly-open microcontroller development boards bearing its name, has announced that it is getting into the entry-level field-programmable gate array ...

MKR Vidor 4000 is the first-ever Arduino board featuring an FPGA chip – an Intel/Altera MAX10 – plus an ARm Cortex-M0+ based MCU (SAMD21) and U-blox Nina W102-00B Wi-Fi connectivity. Also on-board is ...