Although FFT and FIR filters may seem complex, in reality they use simple add/subtract/multiply operations. So how can these arithmetic modules, along with shift and pipeline registers in modern FPGAs ...

System designers face a number of key questions during the architecture phase of their project. Increasingly one of these questions is whether to use an FPGA (field programmable gate array) or a DSP ...

In considering the design option for DSP vs. FPGA it is helpful to compare both architectures in a FIR filter application, writes Reg Zatrepalek One of the most widely used digital signal-processing ...

Cofer and Harding discuss how to implement DSP functionality, covering when FPGAs are a good fit for DSP algorithm implementation and important design decisions and considerations. Each of these ...

Over a third of FPGA users now integrate some form of digital signal processing (DSP) into their devices and this percentage is growing, according to Xilinx. And the DSP benchmarking company, BDTI, ...

Using a design flow put together by Mentor Graphics and Altera, designers can implement complex DSP algorithms in high-performance FPGAs directly from ANSI C++ code. The flow, which is based on Altera ...

Described as the company's biggest move in digital signal processing since it started developing dsp48 slices, Xilinx has launched three dsp development kits which are said to further extend the ...

In the next five years, there will be more wireless and digital communication standards, pervasive computing and widespread availability of data on the move. The growing requirements for processing ...

There’s something about Frequency Modulation (FM) synthesizer chips that appeals to a large audience. That’s one of the reasons behind [René Ceballos]’s XFM project, aiming to duplicate on an FPGA the ...

DSPs and FPGAs both offer advantages for signal processing. Here are the design guidelines you need to choose between DSPs, FPGAs, or a combination of the two. Topics covered include device cost, ...