In 2025, a low-key yet monumental invention in the semiconductor industry—FPGA (Field Programmable Gate Array)—will celebrate its fortieth anniversary. This is not just a milestone in time, but rather a dramatic historical metaphor. In this special year of turning forty, the two giants that once dominated the FPGA market for decades, Xilinx and Altera, after … Read more
ASIC Application-Specific Integrated Circuit. An ASIC is designed for a specific application, optimized for a particular task or function, but its wiring and connections are fixed and cannot be changed. For example, Bitcoin mining chips and mobile image processing units. CPU Handles general tasks. A CPU operates using SIMD (Single Instruction, Multiple Data), which is … Read more
Click the blue text above to follow us 01 Basic Overview Acceleration Card Model: Inspur YPCB_00338_1P1 FPGA Chip Model: XC7K480TFFG1156-2 FLASH Chip Model: MT28GU512AAA1EGC-0SIT VIVADO Version: Vivado 2019.2 02 Program Burning In formal engineering projects, after generating the bitstream and verifying the solution, users will burn the official version of the program into FLASH. This … Read more
Forty years ago, Xilinx introduced a revolutionary device that allowed engineers to use logic programming right at their desks. The Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) developed by Xilinx enabled engineers to download bitstreams with custom logic to desktop programmers for immediate execution, eliminating the weeks of waiting for chips to return from the foundry. If … Read more
Introduction to the top ten FPGA chip companies in China, the following companies are listed in no particular order. 1. Unisoc Tongchuang Shenzhen Unisoc Tongchuang Electronics Co., Ltd. was established in December 2013 and is a subsidiary of Unisoc Group, a leader in the comprehensive strength of FPGA in China. On April 29, 2025, Unisoc … Read more
In the wave of IoT and Industry 4.0, embedded systems have become the core engine of smart devices. Among them, Microcontrollers (MCU), Digital Signal Processors (DSP), and Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGA) form a triangular relationship, occupying three strategic positions in control, computation, and programmable acceleration. 1. Microcontroller: The Control Center of Embedded Systems① Core … Read more
When Efficiency Becomes Competitiveness In the field of industrial inspection, millisecond-level processing delays can mean fluctuations in yield or loss of production capacity. Traditional CPU architectures are limited by serial computation and data transfer bottlenecks, while the parallel computing capabilities of FPGAs are opening new dimensions for real-time image processing. · FPGA Acceleration: A Fundamental … Read more
Introduction In the FPGA development process, programming the bitstream file and using ILA for debugging are common operations. However, if the FPGA board is located in a server room or connected to a server via PCIe, we often have to run to the server room or next to the server with a laptop to connect … Read more
Recently, I discovered an interesting development board. This development board integrates ARM cores, NPU cores, and even FPGA cores. It is the newly released YM90X development board from Mill. It is based on the chip developed by Anlu Technology. Shanghai Anlu Information Technology was listed on the Shanghai Stock Exchange’s Science and Technology Innovation Board … Read more
First, the term “embedded” is a concept that lacks a precise definition, with various books offering their own interpretations. However, the main idea is similar: compared to general-purpose systems like PCs, embedded systems are specialized systems with a streamlined structure, retaining only the necessary components in both hardware and software while discarding the unnecessary parts. … Read more