Electronic Design

Linux Targets Virtex-4 FX FPGA

Developers looking to take advantage of the two 32-bit PowerPC 405 processor cores in a Xilinx Virtex-4 FX FPGA can check out the Timesys 2.6.23 Linux kernel. The distribution is optimized for the ...
techtimes

AMD FPGA Software Faces Criticism After Vivado Linux Support Removal in New Licensing Changes

AMD Vivado licensing update sparks backlash after free Linux support was removed from future FPGA software releases, raising concerns over new licensing changes ...
Linux Journal

Xilinx FPGA Design Tools for Linux

A field programmable gate array (FPGA) is a user-programmable piece of silicon constructed in very large-scale integration (VLSI) technology. The VLSI transistor-level detail is absolutely predefined ...
Hackaday

Mithro Runs Down Open Source FPGA Toolchains

Tim [Mithro] Ansell has a lot to tell you about the current state of open FPGA tooling: 115 slides in 25 minutes if you’re counting. His SymbiFlow project aims to be the GCC of FPGA toolchains: ...
Design-Reuse

EPI EPAC1.0 RISC-V core boots Linux on FPGA

March 9, 2021 -- The European Processor Initiative (EPI) https://www.european-processor-initiative.eu/, a project with 28 partners from 10 European countries, with the goal of helping the EU achieve ...
Business Wire

Tachyum Boots Linux on Prodigy FPGA

LAS VEGAS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Tachyum™ Inc. today announced that it has successfully executed the Linux boot process on the field-programmable gate array (FPGA) prototype of its Prodigy Universal ...
EDN

Linux is available for Altera’s Nios II embedded processor

Getting Linux support on an FPGA is important; how you get it and who you get it from is really important. So I was excited to hear that the folks at Altera Corporation and Wind River have announced ...
EDN

CompactRIO re-designed around Zynq FPGA and real time Linux

National Instruments has completely redesigned its reconfigurable I/O controller around the Xilinx Zynq system on chip, running a Real Time Linux operating system for the first time. The cRIO-9068 ...
Hackaday

SPARC CPU In A Cheap FPGA

There was a time when SPARC CPUs were the sole realm of pricey Sun workstations, but now you can put one on an FPGA with just a little trouble. The problem is you need a fairly big FPGA which isn’t ...
Design-Reuse

Tachyum Boots Linux on Prodigy FPGA

LAS VEGAS, Nevada, August 31, 2021 –Tachyum™ Inc. today announced that it has successfully executed the Linux boot process on the field-programmable gate array (FPGA) prototype of its Prodigy ...