Engineers at FPGA manufacturer Xilinx had a measurement challenge: how to characterize the 28Gb/s serial links in their devices. At such a data rate, even very short connections can cause signal ...

MUNICH — Although in 2001 FPGA vendor Xilinx was briefly caught in the down-draught of the communications bust it has generally managed to turn in better financial numbers than most of its ASIC rivals ...

As data centers are called upon to handle an explosion of unstructured data fed into a variety of cutting-edge applications, the future for FPGAs looks bright. That’s because FPGAs, or field ...