We will admit it: mostly when we see a homebrew CPU design on an FPGA, it is a simple design that wouldn’t raise any eyebrows in the 1970s or 1980s. Not so with [Henry Wong’s] design, t… ...

However, once configured, an FPGA can emulate digital logic at speeds analogous to ‘hard wired’ circuits. So, just as the CPU excels at peforming varied tasks, the FPGA excels at performing repetitive ...

Let’s say you had a SNES with a busted CPU. What would you do? Your SNES would be through! That is, unless, you had a replacement based on an FPGA. [leonllr] has been developing just such a t… ...

Another key aspect of the WiMi hybrid CPU-FPGA approach is the implementation of software-hardware co-design optimization. At the software level, a dedicated simulator framework has been developed ...

One of the biggest innovations in this industry is going to come from a fundamental reapplication of a technology that has been known and understood for some time; enter the humble FPGA. FPGAs started ...

Our Universal Processor does it all - CPU, GPU, DSP, FPGA - in one chip, one architecture. This isn't an incremental improvement. It is a paradigm shift.

A US start-up has come up with a twist on the idea of offloading processor intensive tasks to a block of programmable logic. Stretch says programmers can use C and C++ to target its device directly, ...

Our Universal Processor does it all - CPU, GPU, DSP, FPGA - in one chip, one architecture. This isn't an incremental improvement. It is a paradigm shift.

A new patent by AMD, though, could mean that the FPGA newcomer might be ready to make one of its own. In October, AMD announced plans to acquire Xilinx as part of a big push into the datacenter.