The STEPFPGA MXO2Core is a miniature FPGA development core board designed based on Lattice MXO2-4000 FPGA chip. “This versatile FPGA chip combines some great advantages of FPGAs and CPLDs, the ...

It's not as easy to prototype today as it was. Since packaging technology has moved so far to provide us with reduced board space and higher I/O counts, it also carries with it the inability by most ...

Orange Tree Technologies announces ZestSC2, a high performance FPGA board that can be used stand-alone or connected by USB to a host computer. The board is aimed at data acquisition, and stand-alone ...

When Intevac developed the embedded electronic systems for NightVista, a compact, high-performance, ultralow-light camera, the first approach was built around a Texas Instruments DSP. But after a few ...

Putting an FPGA on a PCI Express card isn’t new, but when the likes of Xilinx and Intel do it, then developers start to notice. Likewise, these heavyweights don’t get involved in small projects.

Playing around with FPGAs used to be a daunting prospect. You had to fork out a hundred bucks or so for a development kit, sign the Devil’s bargain to get your hands on a toolchain, and only then can ...

SBC development kits available from Farnell now include the OrangeCrab r0.2 open-source FPGA development board from Good Stuff Department, the company responsible for open-source hardware, including ...

Adafruit has announced the arrival of a new open source programmable FPGA development board in the form of the Fomu ICE40. Offering 28 kilobytes of RAM and a large amount of storage, the small develop ...

The BeagleV-Fire is a new single-board computer from BeagleBoard, the company behind the BeagleBone and BeaglePlay line of boards, among others. What makes this $150 board stand out is that it’s ...

[Will] wrote a 128MHz Z80-based retro microcomputer which runs on a Papilio Pro board. For those who don’t know, the latter is built around a Spartan-6 LX9 FPGA so you may imagine that much work was ...