EDN

Inside DSP on Tools: FPGA Tools Bridge Gap Between Algorithm and Implementation

Increasingly FPGAs are being used to perform signal-processing tasks, particularly in computationally demanding application areas such as video processing and communications. Their massive parallelism ...
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 ...
Electronic Design

Flow Implements C++ DSP Algorithms in FPGAs

Using a design flow put together by Mentor Graphics and Altera, designers can implement complex DSP algorithms in high-performance FPGAs directly from ANSI C++ code. The flow, which is based on Altera ...
Nature

Hardware Architecture for Cryptographic Algorithms on FPGA

Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs) have emerged as a versatile platform for implementing cryptographic algorithms, offering a balance between flexibility, performance and energy efficiency. Recent ...
Semiconductor Engineering

Fully Reconfigurable DSP: As Fast As Hardwired At ~2x Area/Power

What we hear from customers is that there is a growing need for very fast and very flexible DSP, which hardwired solutions can’t address. And that the fastest solutions are FPGAs, but they are big, ...
Electronic Design

DSP Goes From Algorithm To Implementation

To implement algorithms, digital-signal-processing (DSP) developers have had to rely upon design flows that use manual approaches. Aside from being time consuming, the manual process can invite errors ...