EDN

How to interface FPGAs to microcontrollers

As many as half of all embedded designs have an FPGA next to a microcontroller. The FPGA can be used to implement anything from glue logic, to custom IP, to accelerators for computationally intensive ...
Semiconductor Engineering

The Importance Of An eFPGA’s Configuration Interfaces

eFPGAs are heralded throughout the semiconductor industry for their flexibility and programmability, especially when it comes to high-performance compute applications. Let’s take a closer look at how ...
EDN

Renesas Technology Receives Certification for New IP that Supports the PCI Express 2.0 High-speed Serial Inter

SAN JOSE, Calif. — December 16, 2008 — Renesas Technology America, Inc. today announced the development of a new logical- and physical-layer intellectual property (IP) conforming to PCI ExpressBase ...
Semiconductor Engineering

Efficient Data Transfer With High-Speed Serial Flash Interface IP

Technology advancement and increasing data transfer rate, have made serial flash memories widely popular to store data on off-chip locations. Traditionally, flash memory devices use a primary ...
Design-Reuse

SPI-S--a next-generation interface for serial physical interconnects

SPI-S delivers a channelized, streaming-packet interface scaleable to hundreds of Gb/s for chip-to-chip and backplane applications using OIF CEI interconnects with either 64B66B or CEI-P framing. By ...
Design-Reuse

Serial Peripheral Interface. SPI, these three letters denote everything you asked for

Electronics is everywhere, especially these days. Many times, as frequent users, we do not even notice a “paradigm change” in the things we use on regular basis. We use a fridge, but we do not care ...