Design Center

• Back to the basics: Doing Hardware Counter/Timer design using High School Science

• Backplane tutorial: RapidIO, PCIe and Ethernet

• Simplifying design of industrial process-control systems with PLC evaluation boards (Part 1 of 2)

• Debugging hardware designs with an FPGA-based emulation tool

• Debugging hardware designs with an FPGA-based emulation tool

Learning Center

Most Recent Courses

• Fundamentals of FPGAs
  Technology course  45 min.
• Competitive Programmable Logic Power Measurements
  Video Tutorial  4 min.
• Plug & Play Signal Integrity in Altera's Stratix II GX FPGAs
  Video Tutorial  4 min.
• Design Low Cost - Low Power Wireless Systems With Cyclone III FPGAs
  Educast  10 min.
• Design Video and Image Processing Systems with Low Cost Cyclone III FPGAs
  Educast  10 min.
• Develop a Display System Using Low-Cost Cyclone III FPGAs
  Educast  10 min.
• FPGA Synthesis of Custom DSP Blocks Using Distributed Arithmetic
  Lecture  20 min.

Product Center

Actel rolls mixed-signal FPGA with hard ARM core
Claiming a major breakthrough that could have broad appeal for embedded designers, Actel has introduced a family of flash-based FPGAs that feature a complete microcontroller subsystem built around a hard ARM Cortex-M3 processor and programmable analog blocks.

Latest Product Articles

• Xilinx, Inova team on in-car video links
• Impulse C adds support for C-language math.h functions
• Altera moves 40-nm Arria II GX to mass production
• XMOS offers iPhone/iPod dock reference design
• GateRocket rolls new version of FPGA debug tool
• NI adds vision capabilities to CompactRIO, Single-Board RIO
• Avnet offers Virtex-6 DSP development kit
• Xilinx banks on power efficiency for 28-nm

Under the Hood

• Teardown: Digicam highlights integration, price erosion
• Good vibrations for energy harvesting
• Under the Hood: Android dreams, GooglePhone delivers
• Under the Hood: Esquire puts e-ink on the cover

Technical Paper Library

Latest Technical Papers

• Bridging the Voltage Gap with FPGAs
• Book excerpt: Chapter 2—mod m reduction
• A New Approach to FPGA Testing and Validation for Today's Market
• Top 10 tips to minimize power consumption when designing with FPGAs
• Cornering Those Corner Case Bugs: Functional Coverage On Multiple Interfaces
• An example of application—elliptic curve cryptography
• Innovative Heat Sink Designs Cool "Hot" FPGAs

Featured Technical Papers

• Intelligent Digital Power Management
  Actel
• "Energy Aware" Appliance Platform: A New Approach To Home Energy Control
  Altera
• Protect Your FPGA Against Piracy: Cost-Effective Authentication Scheme Protects IP in SRAM-Based FPGA Designs
  Maxim Integrated Products

Webinars

Latest Webinars

• Accelerate FPGA Designer Productivity with ISE Design Suite
  Xilinx
• Ensuring Safe Design for Mil-Aero & Safety-Critical Applications
  Mentor Graphics
• Stratix-based Algorithmic Acceleration and Prototyping: unique capabilities enabling new use modes
  Synopsys and Altera
• Create faster, less expensive, and lower power memory interfaces with Xilinx Virtex-6 and Spartan-6 FPGAs
  Xilinx
• Create faster, less expensive, and lower power memory interfaces with Xilinx Virtex-6 and Spartan-6 FPGAs.
  Xilinx
• Increase Your Team's Productivity with the Right FPGA Software
  Altera