This white paper describes a recommended design flow that leverages Altera® FPGAs’ adaptability, variable-precision digital signal processing (DSP), and integrated system-level design tools for motor control designs. Designers of industrial motor-driven equipment can take advantage of the performance, integration, and efficiency benefits of this design flow.

This training will give you a basic introduction to programmable logic devices, focusing on FPGAs. By exploring the history of programmable logic technologies, you’ll learn about the architectural features that make up an FPGA. You will see the advantages of using FPGAs for digital logic design. Finally, you’ll understand how design software makes it easy to create and implement digital logic designs.

By the end of this course, you will be able … Read More → "Basics of Programmable Logic Online Training"

Confused about FPGA cost reduction?  There are easy options for even the most sophisticated FPGAs.  Join Amelia Dalton and Shekhar of Xilinx in this Chalk Talk about cost-reducing your Virtex FPGA design with EasyPath.

Speaker: Shekhar, Marketing Director, FPGA Cost Reduction, Xilinx

Watch this demo video to see how Stratix® II GX FPGAs give you the ability to change the position of backplane cards on the fly with total preservation of signal integrity at high data rates.  With Plug & Play Signal Integrity, Stratix II GX FPGAs eliminate the painstaking process of manually reconfiguring your backplane equalization.Using transceivers equipped with an Adaptive Dispersion Compensation Engine (ADCE), Stratix II GX FPGAs allow … Read More → "Plug & Play Signal Integrity for High-Performance FPGAs with Transceivers"

You may know about the cost and performance advantages of designing systems on a programmable chip. But did you know how easy it is to do? Learn how by watching this new 8-minute video. You’ll learn, step by step, how to build your microcontroller functionality into an FPGA in just minutes and see the compact, low-cost BeMicro FPGA-based MCU Evaluation Board in action. You’ll also find out how easy it is to design with the configurable 32-bit Nios® II embedded processor.</ … Read More → "5 Easy Steps to Building an Embedded Processor System Inside an FPGA"

Are you looking for a way to speed up the design process for your low-power FPGA applications? This 10-minute video will give you a closer look at the Cyclone® III LS FPGA Development Kit, particularly two utilities that accelerate the design cycle – the Board Test System and the Board Update Portal. You’ll see the Cyclone III LS FPGA Development Kit in action and find out how this device can support your cost-sensitive, bandwidth-intensive applications.