EDN

Programmable chips: piecing together an analog solution

Configurable analog ICs have been available in various forms for years, seemingly making less of an impression on the market than their digital cousins, FPGAs (field-programmable gate arrays). The ...
Design-Reuse

Back to the basics: Programmable Systems on a Chip

Configurable logic blocks (CLBs) house the logic for the FPGA. Typically, these CLBs contain enough logic to create a small state machine. A CLB normally contains RAM to create arbitrary combinatorial ...
EDN

Programmable USB2 Controller Hubs

Microchip Technology introduced the world’s first programmable USB2 controller hubs. The USB4624, USB2534 and USB3613 programmable controller hubs let you configure USB2 without using external memory.
Network World

FPGA maker Xilinx aims range of software-programmable chips at data centers

As data centers are called upon to handle an explosion of unstructured data fed into a variety of cutting-edge applications, the future for FPGAs looks bright. That’s because FPGAs, or field ...
SiliconANGLE

Intel to spin out programmable chip business, with IPO slated for 2-3 years later

Intel Corp. today announced plans to spin out its programmable chip unit as a standalone business, and will treat it as a separate entity going forward. Ultimately, the chip giant aims to hold an ...
EurekAlert!

Programmable all-optical signal processing on a silicon chip

The advent of big data era raising significant challenges in information processing, especially in the aspect of capacity and power consumption. Situations become even worse when we consider the fact ...
Digi Times

iCometrue is actively promoting logic drive and field programmable multi-chip package

Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) chips manufactured on sub-10-nm nodes are suitable for realizing Logic Drive. With 10 nm and more advanced processes, tens of billions of transistors and more than ...
Electronic Design

Controller Chips Shrink Hot-swap Designs

A variety of applications in telecom and networking require insertion and removal of circuit cards in live backplanes. Hot-swap controller ICs provide the power management and protection circuitry ...
Electronic Design

Multiphase Controllers Heed Call for More Phases Per Chip

Because emerging dc-dc converters are expected to deliver up to 200 A of current at low voltages, designers are employing multiphase topology with up Because emerging dc-dc converters are expected to ...
Machine Design

Programmable Controllers

A programmable logic controller, or PLC, is a software-based equivalent of a relay panel. A PLC is a general-purpose device. One model can be programmed to control a variety of machines, and programs ...
VentureBeat

Xilinx’s programmable AI chip powers safety sensors in Subaru car

Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More Xilinx shared today that its programmable AI chips are being used in ...
Nature

Birth of the programmable optical chip

Advances in silicon photonics, compound III–V semiconductor technology and hybrid integration now mean that powerful, programmable optical integrated circuits could be within sight. The recent ...