Last week, I wrote an article about Adam Taylor’s White Paper titled “Migrating Spartan 6 Design to 7 Series & Beyond.” In that White Paper, Taylor discusses many considerations for migrating from AMD-Xilinx Spartan-6 FPGAs to Spartan-7 FPGAs. The question arises because Xilinx introduced the Spartan-6 FPGA family in 2009, more than a decade ago,…
The choice of implementing speed optimizations in hardware versus software has always been a moving target. More recently, acceleration has tipped to the hardware side. In this article, Nishant looks at how accelerators are designed on FPGAs, focusing mostly on Xilinx-specific accelerator design techniques using high-level synthesis tools.