More about FPGA (186)

1-07-2010 | The use of the low-cost RFM12 868 MHz (US: 915 MHz) ISM (licence-free) radio module with microcontrollers like the ATmega and the R8C13 is s...

1-03-2010 | A few months ago Australian software and tools specialist Altium cut the price of its Altium Designer electronic CAD software suite consider...

1-11-2009 | Often when we talk about FPGA, the first we think of are Altera or Xilinx (in alphabetical order) – but these are not the only manufacturers...

1-02-2009 | FPGAs are normally programmed in special-purpose programming languages such as VHDL, which unfortunately can be hard to learn. Now, however,...

1-03-2008 | FPGA technology has evolved rapidly in just a short time, and FPGAs are now suitable for a broad range of applications. Nevertheless, most n...

1-01-2008 | FPGA manufacturers are engaged in an intense battle for the favour of electronics engineers. In the last few years the conflict has moved fr...

1-02-2007 | We’ve used nearly every I/O port of the prototyping board at least once in this FPGA course. We say ‘nearly’ because we haven’t used the Eth...

1-01-2007 | In this instalment of the course we’re going to put together our own USB microcontroller. In terms of technical features, it can certainly h...

1-12-2006 | A picture is worth a thousand words, which is probably why alphanumeric displays have given way to graphic displays in the latest mobile tel...

1-11-2006 | You no doubt have an old PS/2 keyboard gathering dust somewhere. Now you can put it to good use again as an input device for the FPGA protot...