In the case of user-defined “black boxes” containing RTL, the original Protel and Nexar tools supported only VHDL. But Altium is expanding their LiveDesign capabilities to include support for Verilog.

FPGA design and programming The FPGA starts with hardware description language (HDL) or a schematic design. The HDL is preferred over schematic design due to HDL's capability in handling large design ...

When Xilinx released the first FPGA in 1985, the XC2064 chip and its 1,000 gate size seemed impressive. No one probably predicted that by the year 2004 the size of an FPGA would be 10,000 times ...

ANNAPOLIS, Md. Proclaiming a revolutionary new approach to designing reconfigurable logic, Annapolis Microsystems has announced CoreFire, which allows users to program Annapolis' FPGA-based boards by ...