Archives: Chalk Talks

  • Vivado Design Suite HLx Editions

    High-level design methods can dramatically increase your productivity. Now that technologies like high-level synthesis (HLS) have gone mainstream, we can make some serious improvements to…

  • The Market Shift to Integrated Physical Prototyping

    FPGA-based physical prototyping is the go-to standard for high-performance, high-productivity verification, debug, and software development on many electronic systems today. But, it is becoming increasingly…

  • DC Brushed Motor Applications – Mouser and Infineon

    Brushed DC motors are the go-to solution for thousands of applications. And, although most of us have experience with brushed motors at some point, few…

  • Low Light Surveillance Imaging

    Designing embedded vision applications for low-light situations has to start with the right image sensor. Your vision analytics cannot identify what your camera cannot see.…

  • Cadence Tensilica Vision P5

    Intelligent vision systems represent some of today’s biggest embedded design challenges. The enormous processing power required combined with small energy budgets rules out most conventional…

  • Introducing Palladium Z1 Enterprise Emulation Platform

    Emulation is critical in the development of just about every complex IC these days, but most emulation systems are burdened with proprietary standards and form…

  • Molex Embedded Vision – Mouser and Molex

    When designing advanced applications such as embedded vision, connectors are one of the last things on most engineers’ minds, But the selection of the correct…

  • Analog to Digital Conversion – Mouser and Microchip Technology

    High-speed analog signals pose special challenges for analog to digital conversion (ADC). Applications like software-defined radio, radar, instrumentation, and high-speed wireless require ADC that is…

  • Altera 2.5Gb Ethernet IP

    Even though the newest, fastest standards get all the press, most of the work in the world is being done by standards like 2.5Gb Ethernet. In…

  • Meet ARTY: the $99 FPGA Development Kit from Xilinx

    Have you been wanting to try FPGA design? Were FPGA development boards and tools always too expensive and difficult to use? In this episode of Chalk…