EDN

Implementing floating-point DSP on FPGAs

For developers using FPGAs for the implementation of floating-point DSP functions, one key challenge is how to decompose the computation algorithm into sequences of parallel hardware processes while ...
EDN

Targeting Floating-Point Algorithms for FPGA or ASIC Deployment

Native Floating-Point HDL code generation allows you to generate VHDL or Verilog for floating-point implementation in hardware without the effort of fixed-point conversion. Native Floating-Point HDL ...
TechRepublic

Design of FPGA Based 32-Bit Floating Point Arithmetic Unit and Verification of Its VHDL Code Using MATLAB

Most of the algorithms implemented in FPGAs used to be fixed-point. Floating-point operations are useful for computations involving large dynamic range, but they require significantly more resources ...
CIOL

Altera changes game for floating point DSP in FPGAs

SAN JOSE, USA: Altera Corp. changed the game as it relates to floating-point DSP performance in an FPGA. Altera is the first programmable logic company to integrate hardened IEEE 754-compliant, ...
Design-Reuse

How to achieve 1 trillion floating-point operations-per-second in an FPGA

Based on recent technological developments, high-performance floating-point signal processing can, for the very first time, be easily achieved using FPGAs. To date, virtually all FPGA-based signal ...
Design-Reuse

Altera Introduces Industry's First FPGA Floating-Point FFT IP Cores

New Cores Leverage Stratix Device Family's Embedded DSP Blocks to Deliver a Cost-Effective Floating-Point FFT FPGA Solution San Jose, Calif., June 3, 2003—Altera Corporation (NASDAQ: ALTR) today ...
NextBigFuture

10 Teraflops per FGPA chip and 100 GFlops per watt

Altera Corporation is a pioneer of programmable logic solutions and enabling systems. They are a leader with FPGAs. The field-programmable gate array (FPGA) is a semiconductor device that can be ...
The Next Platform

FPGAs Focal Point for Efficient Neural Network Inference

Over the last couple of years, we have focused extensively on the hardware required for training deep neural networks and other machine learning algorithms. Focal points have included the use of ...
Machine Design

FPGAs put PLCs in motion

The quest for better throughput, faster changeover times, and less waste and downtimes has made machine-automation systems more complicated. Besides handling logic or process controls, systems today ...
Electronic Design

FPGAs Get A Performance/Reliability Lift From The Bumps

According to Altera it will be the first company to use fine-pitch copper, bump-based packaging technology for commercial purposes. The technology, patented by the Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing ...
The Next Platform

FPGAs Held Back in HPC, But Hope on the Horizon

The accelerator story for top supercomputers is a strong one, starting with GPUs, which were snapped in as coprocessors on some of the world’s largest systems over the last five years. Since then, ...