Category: Max 10

• Alorium conjures a world of hardware-accelerated Arduino boards using Intel® MAX® 10 FPGAs The open-source Arduino has become one of the most widely used embedded architectures for simple projects. The original Arduino boards were based on an 8-bit AVR microcontroller, originally developed by Atmel. The Arduino integrated development environment (IDE) and simplified programming “sketches” based on C++ made embedded programming easily accessible. Recognizing that Arduino code is not particularly fast, particularly for I/O,...
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• FPGA revives famous, long out-of-print music synthesis chip, the 6581 SID, now in the IEEE Chip Hall of Fame Several years ago, Andreas Beermann started a hobby project that has taken some unforeseen paths. He decided to replicate the design of the long discontinued MOS Technology 6581 Sound Interface Device (SID) chip using an FPGA. The SID chip was used in a variety of personal computers during the 1980s including the Commodore 64 and the Commodore 128. The SID...
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• How to power nearly everything – Processors, FPGAs, ASICs – the easy way with high-frequency PowerSOC converters   The days of powering every chip on a board with a single 5 V or 3.3 V supply are long gone. Most complex ICs including processors, FPGAs, and ASICs require multiple supply voltages. Efficiently meeting the power needs of these devices becomes a complicated design challenge, but point-of-load (POL) converters can simplify these challenges. More specifically, Intel® Enpirion® compact,...
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