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 ...

Each of these enhancements has contributed to increased DSP processor performance improvements and performance increases will continue. However, ultimately each of these design enhancements seeks to ...

FPGAs can provide a fast, cost effective solution to many of today's complex demands for DSP functionality. However, many DSP engineers have traditionally focused on software, and may not know where ...

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, ...

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 ...

Why are so many designers turning to FPGA implementation for DSP designs? Considering the price/performance ratio for today's high-end FPGAs, not to mention the large numbers of DSP blocks and ...

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 ...

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 ...