Ernie Smith is a former contributor to BizTech, an old-school blogger who specializes in side projects, and a tech history nut who researches vintage operating systems for fun. When it comes to major ...

If you've talked on a cell phone, browsed the Internet, or watched a show on 4K TV, you've benefited from field programmable gate arrays (FPGAs). Other examples of FPGAs at work include Google search ...

Achronix Semiconductor announced that it has started shipping its Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs). The Speedster family with the SPD60 will be its initial member and is capable of delivering ...

Content Addressable Memory (CAM) architectures provide a powerful approach to high-speed data searches by comparing search data against an entire memory in parallel, rather than relying on sequential ...

[Brad Robinson] was feeling a bit nostalgic for his Microbee, so he rebuilt it in an FPGA. Not once, but three times. For the uninitiated, the Applied Technology Microbee was a Z80 based computer 1980 ...

If you are searching for a small form factor Field-Programmable Gate Array complete with Mini PCIe you might be interested in the upcoming launch of the TinyBeast FPGA. Offering a PolarFire FPGA in ...

Pretty much anybody in technology knows about CPUs (central processing units), the backbone of computers. And most people also know about GPUs (graphical processing units), which excel not only at ...

Algorithm-driven design is the norm rather than the exception for the modern system designer, often requiring them to incorporate higher performance integrated circuits (ICs). Unfortunately, the ...

Advances in silicon photonics, compound III–V semiconductor technology and hybrid integration now mean that powerful, programmable optical integrated circuits could be within sight. The recent ...

Field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) and system-on-a-chip (SoC) products are among the programmable logic devices (PLDs) that Xilinx creates, develops, and sells. One of the world's biggest and most ...

An earlier type of ASIC chip that was partially finished with rows of unconnected transistors and resistors. The chip was completed by designing and adhering the top metal layers that provided the ...