FPGA Whitepapers/ CPLD Whitepapers

A Low-Cost, High Performance Data Acquisition and Control Card Using LatticeECP/EC FPGAs and Lattice ispPAC Power Manager

Whitepaper By: 
Lattice

Off-the-shelf data acquisition and control cards with an on-board DSP CPU often perform at only a fraction of their benchmark-based expectations.

A Low-Cost, High Performance Data Acquisition and Control Card Using LatticeECP/EC FPGAs and Lattice ispPAC Power Manager

Whitepaper By: 
Lattice

Off-the-shelf data acquisition and control cards with an on-board DSP CPU often perform at only a fraction of their benchmark-based expectations.

WP352 - CoolRunner-II CPLDs in Portable Navigation Devices

Whitepaper By: 
Xilinx

Asking for directions is fast becoming a foreign concept, much like the art of folding a map or a newspaper.

WP350 - Understanding Performance of PCI Express Systems

Whitepaper By: 
Xilinx

PCI Express® technology, which is a serialized point-to-point interconnect protocol, provides a high-bandwidth scalable solution for reliable data transport.

WP279 - Digitally Removing a DC Offset: DSP Without Mathematics

Whitepaper By: 
Xilinx

Many designers feel uncomfortable at the mention of digital signal processing (DSP).

WP335 - Creative Uses of Block RAM

Whitepaper By: 
Xilinx

All Virtex® and Spartan® FPGAs include many block RAMs. Even the smallest Virtex device has dozens of block RAMs, larger devices have

WP277 - Expanding Dedicated Multipliers

Whitepaper By: 
Xilinx

Those of you with DSP or computationally intensive projects in mind will be most interested in the dedicated multipliers Xilinx® Spartan®-3 generation FPGA devices have to offer; the potential is e

WP271 - Saving Costs with the SRL16E

Whitepaper By: 
Xilinx

Although the SRL16E 16-bit shift register sounds like an additional component, it is an alternate operating mode for the Look-Up Tables in which they become 16-bit shift registers.

WP345 - Slash Your Total Cost by up to 50% with Spartan-3 Generation FPGAs

Whitepaper By: 
Xilinx

Xilinx® Spartan®-3 generation FPGAs were conceived to deliver the lowest total cost for high volume applications.

WP347 - Using CoolRunner-II CPLDs in Portable Educational Toys

Whitepaper By: 
Xilinx

Portable educational electronic toys are becoming increasingly common in the home.