Cyclone V and Arria V FPGAs can include dual core Cortex-A9 processors Altera includes a single hard core ECC memory controller with each dual core processing complex in addtion to a shared 512 Kbyte ...

Today’s high-performance computing systems often require the designer to instantiate multiple CPU or DSP cores in their subsystem. However, the performance gained by using multiple CPUs comes with ...

One of the greatest challenges of FPGA is the crave for a platform, which runs a system, handles a software and co-ordinates exchange with peripherals. To explore this advantage on FPGA with energy ...

Fig 1. Intel’s E600C blends an Intel Atom processor with an Altera FPGA on a multi-chip package linking the two using PCI Express links. Fig 2. Xilinx’s Zynq-7000 EPP puts a full dual-core Cortex-A9 ...

Altera Corporation (NASDAQ: ALTR), MIPS Technologies (NASDAQ: MIPS) and System Level Solutions (SLS) Corporation today introduced a MIPS-Based™, FPGA-optimized soft processor for use on Altera’s FPGA ...

The field programmable gate space is heating up with new use cases driven by everything from emerging network, IoT, and application acceleration trends. Keeping ahead of the curve means expanding on ...

The SMT145 is a versatile PCI and PCI Express-based signal carrier board with a 1 to 2-Gbit/s fiber-optic module coupled to Virtex-II Pro FPGA incorporating dual IBM 400-MHz PowerPC processor cores.

Since 2005, computer CPU chip makers have increasingly adopted the use of multiple cores to increase performance. Each core runs a separate computing task, so the computer gets more work done. Before ...