Archives: Chalk Talks

  • Integrated Design Environment for FPGA

    Do you find that FPGA design flows can get a bit confusing and difficult to manage?  What we really need is an integrated design environment…

  • Accelerated Design Productivity with the Kintex-7 FPGA Display Kit

    In this episode of Chalk TalkHD Amelia gets into the guts of display technology with Aaron Behman of Xilinx. From the newest standards to the details of 4K2K,…

  • Introducing SmartFusion2 FPGAs

    You may think you know all the options for FPGA design, but Microsemi’s new SmartFusion2 breaks a lot of rules. The latest, souped-up version of…

  • Value of Power Modules

    Today, the cool kids aren’t using discrete components for power anymore.  Nope.  They’re using power modules.  In this episode of Chalk TalkHD Amelia chats with…

  • Xilinx Agile Mixed Signal

    In today’s electronic design world, analog is an increasingly important part of just about everything we do. A lot of FPGA designers, growing up in an…

  • Design @ MachXO2 Speed

    Just about every design needs one – that magic, do-anything part that can connect nearly any two things together and can aggregate all those messy,…

  • Hardware/Software Co-Verification of ARM Processor-Based Designs

    In this episode of Chalk TalkHD Amelia chats with Lauro Rizzatti of EvE about the latest in emulation technology and explains how you can use emulation to dramatically…

  • Vault-Driven Electronics Design

    Sometimes, it really feels like our design project needs a Vault.  When we have a project crunch, things tend to get out of control and…

  • Super Low Power MCUs: NanoWatt XLP Technology

    Nanowatts and microcontrollers are normally two words you don’t see together, but in this Chalk Talk HD we are going to use nanowatts and microcontrollers in the…

  • Getting Started Using Kintex-7 FPGAs for DSP

    In this episode of Chalk TalkHD Amelia chats with Tom Hill of Xilinx about their new Kintex-7 DSP development kits that will finally get you onto the…