But there’s a real sweet spot when you have a CPU and an FPGA together. Intel (or Altera, if you prefer) has the NIOS II CPU core, but that’s hard to configure, right? Maybe not, thanks to a ...

The combined tools are now sufficient to build the J1A CPU and can even run a simple version of Forth. If you’ve ever wanted to play with an FPGA-based CPU design, you now have a $22 hardware ...

Altera CEO Sandra Rivera tells CRN in an exclusive interview that Intel’s plan to sell a stake in the FPGA business and push ...

A third approach is to embed a processor inside an FPGA. Xilinx has done this with its Zynq 7000 series, which uses a separate Arm chip inside of an FPGA, as well as its MicroBlaze, which is a soft ...

FPGA coprocessors are blocks of hardware IP that can easily be integrated into a processor-based system in order to offload some of the most computationally intensive tasks. A combination of ...

Physics restricts how much further process geometry shrinkage can take us in terms of boosting processor throughput ... enter the humble FPGA. FPGAs started life as discrete devices in 1984. At this ...

A soft-core FPGA processor might have been able to fit in an 1990 s FPGA but it occupied the majority of the device. An off-the-shelf processor chip was cheaper, faster, and readily available. With ...

The MARS FPGA is an ambitious, open-source project designed to surpass the capabilities of existing FPGA-based retro gaming ...

Key updates in the final FPGA-based build include support for an ... The universal Prodigy processor promises to equally ...

Two months after Intel spun off the Programmable Solutions Group into a stand-alone FPGA company, it reveals it’s taking its original Altera name and chasing a market opportunity exceeding $55 ...

The Santa Clara-based biz was one of the first tech companies to join the blue-chip stock market index in 1999, but financial ...

The Intel (INTC) stock price has been one of the worst-performing technology companies in the United States. After peaking at ...