Santa Cruz, Calif. – Mentor Graphics Corp. will roll out a tool this week that it says will enable concurrent FPGA and board design. I/O Designer lets those designing printed-circuit boards ...

I won't delve into PCB design here (see some of the articles below), but will point out a few things to think about for FPGA designs. Stackup design is critical to any complex board, and FPGAs are ...

We recently noticed an open source design for TinyFPGA A-Series boards from [Luke Valenty]. The tiny boards measure 18 mm by 30.5 mm and are breadboard friendly. You can choose a board that holds a… ...

Providing the pcb design perspective, Mentor Graphics' product manager Rakesh Jain said: "We see designs spanning all ranges; from big fpgas with lots of functionality to boards where fpgas act as ...

The board itself is completely open-source. In the GitHub repo, you’ll find the KiCAD 5 design files for the PCB released under an MIT-style license.

Xilinx and Ansoft have created a Xilinx Virtex-II Pro X FPGA-based gigabit interconnect design kit for high-speed PCB and backplane designs. The kit is designed to predict the quality of a signal and ...

This will let you start working with the layout engineer and planning for pc-board (PCB) routability, escape planning, thermal issues, and signal integrity early in the design process.

The SBC347D also features an FPGA. Rose noted the design constraints meant there was only one place for it to go – near the bottom right hand edge. “That’s not ideal as it has to connect to all areas ...

Traditionally, FPGA design and PCB design has been done separately by different design teams using multiple EDA tools and processes. This can create board level connectivity and timing closure ...

"The primary design goal for the TSK3000 was to bring the power of 32-bit RISC processors to FPGA-based system design, while keeping the ease of use and simplicity of traditional board-level 8-bit ...