EDN

FPGA-based hardware acceleration of C/C++ based applications – Part 2

Editor's Note: There are a lot of folks who are interested in accelerating their algorithms/programs written in C or C++. Many of these guys and gals are aware that FPGA-based accelerators are ...
EDN

Handel-C backs top-down hardware development

Hardware-based methodologies used in ASICs and FPGAs have evolved from a bottom-up approach in which hardware functionality is developed by describing circuit structure. To this end, such approaches ...
Design News

Writing Hardware Abstraction Layers (HALs) in C

Hardware abstraction layers (HALs) are an important layer to every embedded software application. A HAL allows a developer to abstract or decouple the hardware details from the application code.
Electronic Design

Convert C Code To FPGA Hardware With A Click Of The Mouse

The Nios II C-to-Hardware Acceleration (C2H) Compiler from Altera greatly simplifies the job of accelerating functions in a C program using hardware (see the figure). It also simplifies the chore of ...
Electronic Design

Practical FPGA Programming In C

The ubiquitous field-programmable gate array (FPGA) is finding use as a software accelerator in many applications, including the communications, image processing, biomedical, and scientific computing ...