EDN

Synplicity upgrades FPGA logic, physical synthesis tools

SAN JOSE, Calif. — Synplicity Inc. has announced the latest version of its FPGA logic synthesis and physical synthesis software solutions featuring what it claims is better quality of results and ...
Semiconductor Engineering

Logic Synthesis Basics For FPGA

In the early days of digital design, all circuits were designed manually. You would draw K-map, optimize the logic and draw the schematics. If you remember, we all ...
Design-Reuse

New Lattice ispLEVER 4.0 Programmable Logic Design Tools Improve Design Efficiency, Ease Design Process

Major design tool upgrades unleash the power of Lattice programmable logic device technologies HILLSBORO, OR - May 4, 2004 - Lattice Semiconductor Corporation (NASDAQ: LSCC), the inventor of in-system ...
EDN

EDA tools for FPGAs break down the complexity gridlock

Advances in semiconductor manufacturing are the primary reasons for the increased popularity of FPGAs. As long as engineers could use only a PLD or an FPGA to implement relatively simple glue-logic ...
Linux Journal

Xilinx FPGA Design Tools for Linux

A field programmable gate array (FPGA) is a user-programmable piece of silicon constructed in very large-scale integration (VLSI) technology. The VLSI transistor-level detail is absolutely predefined ...
Electronic Design

Make Logic Synthesis Work For YouSponsored by: CADENCE DESIGN SYSTEMS

Think Global RTL coding style and how you drive today's synthesis tools affect your results. Take advantage of global RTL optimizations by synthesizing big blocks in top-down fashion instead of ...
Electronic Design

Synthesis Attacks The Abstract

HARDWARE DESIGN is a process of refining an idea from a highly abstract form to a concrete, physical implementation. Along the way, a design is continually transformed from a given state of ...
Design-Reuse

Linking synthesis with DFT key for network switch ICs

As the challenges of network execution time reach new heights, the question of integrating synthesis and design-for-test (DFT) in the fabrication of high density networking devices merits reassessment ...