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 ...

SAN MATEO, Calif. — Xilinx Inc. has upgraded its top-selling FPGA line by packing in more I/O pins and logic resources, a move that will give designers one more reason to quit using ASICs, the company ...

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 ...

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 ...

Want to build a custom USB-based interface such as a USB-to-GPIB bridge? Check out the ZestSC1. The 7.5- by 12.5-cm module contains a USB controller, a Xilinx Spartan-3 1000 FPGA, 8 Mbytes of SRAM, ...

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 ...

A palm-sized, reconfigurable Linux computer that connects to the real world with ARM, FPGA, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, and 154 I/O for the price of a wireless-enabled Raspberry Pi snickerdoodle is a tiny ...

Today, Xilinx unveiled three new series of FPGAs all based on 28nm process technology from Samsung and TSMC. The three families are called the Virtex-7, Kintex-7, and Artix-7 series. All three FPGA ...

Electronic Design held a series of Q&A sessions with several major FPGA companies. Here, our roundtable discussion with Lattice Semiconductor included Bertrand Leigh, director of applications ...

A few weeks ago we looked at an article on Replacing obsolete video game circuits with Xilinx CPLDs, and now I'm delighted to have the opportunity to present the following piece from the Third Quarter ...