The Next Platform

The Other Cray Launches CPU-FPGA Hybrids

Everybody who is operating at any sort of scale is looking to pack more compute into a smaller space for less money. At The Next Platform, we watch the goings on in the hyperscale and HPC arenas to ...
Design-Reuse

FPGA Soft Processor Design Considerations

With so many available processor design options design teams must make the difficult decision to choose the solution that best fits their specific project requirements, while supporting extended ...
GIGAZINE

Is there a possibility that 'FPGA' will become the protagonist of computing on behalf of CPU and GPU?

" Field-programmable gate array (FPGA)" is in the world of computing, when Intel acquires FPGA maker Altera at a huge price, Microsoft uses FPGAs for data centers, Amazon's AWS supports FPGAs, I am ...
Network World

Intel plans hybrid CPU-FPGA chips

Two years ago, Intel spent $16.7 billion to acquire FPGA chip vendor Altera. So, what’s it going to do with that big purchase? The company is finally ready to say. A field-programmable gate array, or ...
HotHardware

AMD Patent Reveals Hybrid CPU-FPGA Design That Could Be Enabled By Xilinx Tech

While they often aren’t as great as CPUs on their own, FPGAs can do a wonderful job accelerating specific tasks. Whether it's accelerating acting as a fabric for wide-scale datacenter services ...
Hackaday

Zork Comes To Custom FPGA CPU (Again)

[Robert Baruch] wanted to tackle a CPU project using an FPGA. One problem you always have is you can either mimic something that has tools and applications or you can go your own way and just build ...
The Next Platform

Giving SmartNICs Bigger FPGA And CPU Brains

The lines between a server, a SmartNIC, and a Data Processing Unit, or DPU, are getting fuzzier, and the good news is that definitions do not matter nearly as much as use cases. And with its so-called ...
GIGAZINE

AMD filed patent for 'CPU and FPGA hybrid processor'

AMD has applied for a patent for a processor that integrates an integrated circuit ' FPGA ' and a CPU that allows the purchaser to change the circuit configuration by himself. AMD acquired Xilinx, the ...
Hackaday

The Oldland CPU 32-bit FPGA Core

It’s an open source 32 bit CPU core that you can synthesize for use on an FPGA. Not only can you browse through all the Verilog code in the Github repo, but there’s also a bunch of tools for working ...
Embedded

CPU plus FPGA design flow for software developers: A new tangible reality

Recently, Brian Bailey organized a round table that resulted in a two-part article called Supporting CPUs Plus FPGAs. The experts discussed the evolving reality of systems design based on FPGAs and ...
Business Wire

Tachyum Unveils Prodigy Universal Processor FPGA Emulation Prototype

LAS VEGAS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Tachyum™ Inc. today announced the upcoming availability of its Prodigy Universal Processor prototype, built using field-programmable gate array (FPGA) emulation boards. The ...
EDN

Xilinx revisits the embedded-CPU FPGA

Nearly a decade ago Xilinx and Altera set a new direction for the FPGA industry, each announcing a high-end FPGA sitting beside a powerful CPUs on one die. Enticed by what had been explosive growth in ...