Field-Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs) continue to drive innovation in customizable hardware solutions for industries like telecommunications, aerospace, and automotive electronics. With advancements in hardware acceleration, FPGA technology allows for real-time processing, AI/ML acceleration, and high-speed signal processing. Their reconfigurability makes them a popular choice for embedded systems and prototyping. As FPGA vendors develop new models with improved performance and efficiency, discover how this versatile technology is enabling faster, more flexible design iterations in industries like data centers, medical technology, and consumer electronics, transforming product development cycles and capabilities.
AMD has introduced the Kintex UltraScale+ Gen 2 FPGA family with PCIe Gen4 to support 4K AV-over-IP operation for 4K/8K media operations. The XC2KU040P and XC2KU050P FPGAs are likely to have six 32-bit hard LPDDR memory controllers, operating at 4,266Mbps. The FPGAs will also have high-speed transceivers and frame-accurate transport for professional broadcast and remote production applications. They will be ...
Fabless French FPGA company, NanoXplore has announced that its NG-Ultra FPGA, which is based on STMicroelectronics’ 28nm FD-SOI digital technology, is qualified for the ESCC 9030 for space missions. The radiation-hardened SoC FPGA combines a multi-core processor with programmable hardware on a single chip. It has been designed for low- and medium-earth orbit constellations and will be used in satellite ...
Mouser is now shipping the AMD’s Spartan UltraScale+ FPGAs, based on the company’s UltraScale architecture for high I/O, low power applications. The FPGAs enable I/O expansion, sensor processing and control, and board management and are suitable for devices and sensors connected at the edge, including industrial automation, networking, robotics, wireless applications and industrial IoT. They are also suitable for data ...
Arrow Electronics is offering a starter kit development board for Altera Agilex 5 FPGAs. Called AXE5000, it is built around a A5EC008BM16AE6S, an IC with 85,196 logic elements and, for migration from Arria 10 and Stratix 10 FPGAs, a 28,880 LUT ‘adaptive logic module’. CPUs include a 1.4GHz dual core Arm Cortex-A76, and a dual core 1.25GHz Cortex-A55. DSP performance ...
Codasip has launched a complete exploration platform to accelerate CHERI adoption. Codasip Prime comprises pre-silicon hardware and software development kits to realise state-of-the-art memory-safe compute. The platform is based on the Codasip X730 application core, which integrates CHERI (Capability Hardware Enhanced RISC Instructions). Based on commercially available IP, Codasip Prime enables advanced development of memory-safe and secure software. The platform ...
At Hardware Pioneers Max 2025 we caught up with Dunstan Power, Director and Co-Founder of ByteSnap, as part of our promotional coverage for the event. He explains how industrial manufacturers can navigate today’s technical challenges, including implementing FPGA solutions, modernising systems, extending product lifecycles, and managing obsolescence without costly redesigns. He also shares insights from his new industry report on ...
A $3.5 billion foundry contract, the road ahead for Intel, AMD launching auto-qualified FPGAs, Intel securing a customer for its 18A process, and alternatives for IGBTs...
Nearly a year after announcing its strategic partnership with FPGA developer QuickLogic to produce FPGA chiplets, YorChip elaborated on its plans to apply chiplets to more general-purpose applications. Start-up YorChip specialises in UCIe-compatible IP. Last August the company announced a partnership with FPGA provider QuickLogic to collaborate in developing FPGA chiplets optimised for low power consumption and low cost. The ...
Achronix has teamed up with Bluespec to offer a family of Linux-capable RISC-V soft processors for the Speedster7t FPGA family. “Bluespec’s RISC-V processors now integrate into the Achronix 2D network-on-chip architecture, simplifying integration and enabling engineers to add scalable processing to their designs,” according to Achronix. “The network allows multiple instances of the RISC-V core to be added, and relocated ...
DigiKey has teamed up with LabsLand to release Prism4, a remote engineering hardware system. The distributor will be exclusively releasing the modular system, designed to build real-time, remote hardware systems, in a fast and efficient manner. Prism4 supports systems with cameras, modular lights and evaluation boards and the platform includes a set of Phase Dock workbench bases, where devices can ...
