FPGA Whitepapers/ CPLD Whitepapers

Serial Multiprotocol Transmission with the LatticeSC FPGA

Whitepaper By: 
Lattice

The movement towards serial chip to chip and backplane interconnects continues at a frantic pace, particularly in the communications and storage arena.

flexiMAC: A Microsequencer for Flexible Protocol Processing

Whitepaper By: 
Lattice

FPGAs have undisputed advantages in flexibility, zero NRE costs, faster time to market and in-system programmability.

Serial Multiprotocol Transmission with the LatticeSC FPGA

Whitepaper By: 
Lattice

The movement towards serial chip to chip and backplane interconnects continues at a frantic pace, particularly in the communications and storage arena.

Managing Power Sequencing for the LatticeSC FPGA

Whitepaper By: 
Lattice

The LatticeSC (System Chip) FPGA family combines a high-performance FPGA fabric, 3.8Gbps SERDES and PCS, high-performance I/Os, large embedded RAM and embedded ASIC blocks in a single architecture.

Leading FPGA Architectures are Meeting the Connectivity Challenge

Whitepaper By: 
Lattice

Since their introduction nearly 20 years ago, FPGAs have grown into a multi-billion dollar segment of the semiconductor industry.

Developing High-Speed Memory Interfaces: The LatticeSCM FPGA Advantage

Whitepaper By: 
Lattice

A common problem for today’s system designers is to reliably interface to their next generation high-speed memory devices.

Floating-Point Compiler: Increasing Performance With Fewer Resources

Whitepaper By: 
Altera

As floating-point applications become more prevalent, acceleration of floating-point operations become more important.

Utilizing Leveling Techniques in DDR3 SDRAM Memory Interfaces

Whitepaper By: 
Altera

The DDR3 SDRAM memory architectures support higher bandwidths with bus rates of 600 Mbps to 1.6 Gbps (300 to 800 MHz), 1.5V operation for lower power, and higher densities of 2 Gbits on a 90-nm proces

Performing Equivalent Timing Analysis Between Altera TimeQuest and Xilinx Trace

Whitepaper By: 
Altera

Most hardware designers who are qualifying FPGA performance normally run software benchmark comparisons of FPGAs from different vendors to determine which vendor provides the largest margin for their

Custom NPUs for Broadband Access Line Cards

Whitepaper By: 
Altera

Telecommunications (telecom) equipment makers are facing tough challenges in their Digital Subscriber Line Access Multiplexer (DSLAM) designs.