Design-Reuse

Building Soft Radio Channelizers Using Top-Down Design

Software-defined radios (SDRs) are adaptable transceiver systems that learn and adapt to transmission and channel environments with software. A key element of an SDR architecture is the channelizer, ...
Semiconductor Engineering

Is An FPGA IP Business Model Finally Possible?

The IP-SoC conference panel, “IPs on FPGA: Strategy and Vision,” was a learning experience for me. Coming from the software and silicon/ASIC/ASSP worlds, I thought I had a pretty comprehensive view of ...
EDN

FPGA/DSP-development kit features RTL and model-based support

The Avnet Electronics Marketing operating group of Avnet Inc is now accepting orders for its $1995 Xilinx Spartan-6 FPGA/DSP-development kit. The kit includes a device-locked version of Xilinx’s ISE ...
EDN

FPGA timing model evolves

SAN MATEO, Calif. —As field-programmable gate arrays increase in complexity and continue to press toward the leading edge of Moore's Law, the timing models FPGA vendors provide to their customers are ...