Nature

FPGA Placement and Optimization Techniques

Field-Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs) remain at the forefront of modern electronic design, owing to their inherent reconfigurability and cost-effectiveness. Recent advances in placement and ...
EDN

FPGA placement performs poorly, study says

SAN JOSE, Calif. — Timing-driven placement algorithms for FPGAs can be as much as 50 percent away from optimal results, according to a paper given at the International Conference on Computer-Aided ...
NextBigFuture

Fujitsu has optimized FPGA architecture that is 1000 to 10,000 times faster than conventional computers for optimization problems and expects commercial prototype in 2018

Fujitsu has collaborated with the University of Toronto to develop a new computing architecture to tackle a range of real-world issues by solving combinatorial optimization problems, which involve ...
EDN

FPGA tool bottleneck stalls HPC

Santa Cruz, Calif. — Gregg Cooke, a director in the emerging-technologies investigation team at a large investment bank in Chicago, is not your typical user of FPGA design tools. But he's ...
Electronic Design

Solving the FPGA DC Power Problem (.PDF Download)

FPGAs are a popular choice among engineers for digital design in a wide variety of applications. They’re an alternative to microcontroller design, which requires high speed in a dedicated function. In ...