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Posted on by Debashis Das - No Comments on Efinix Titanium Edge FPGA family targets low-power edge AI and vision systems

Efinix Titanium Edge FPGA family targets low-power edge AI and vision systems

Efinix Titanium Edge Ti125 FPGA

Efinix has introduced the Titanium Edge FPGA family designed for low-power edge AI and machine vision applications. Based on the company’s Titanium FPGA architecture, the new family introduces lower static power consumption, configurable 2.5 Gbps MIPI I/O, built-in single-event upset (SEU) correction, and System-in-Package (SiP) variants that integrate SPI flash and HyperRAM for compact systems. The initial Titanium Edge FPGA family includes the Ti125, Ti40, Ti70, and Ti95 devices, with approximately 39K to 123K logic elements for embedded AI, machine vision, robotics, medical systems, and various other applications. Compared to the high-end Titanium Ti375 and the cost-efficient Topaz FPGA family, the new devices are designed to have about 50% lower static power consumption while retaining the company’s Quantum architecture. Efinix Titanium Edge Ti125 and Ti125 SiP specifications: FPGA Fabric Efinix Quantum architecture Up to 122,792 logic elements (109,440 XLR cells) 288 DSP blocks Embedded Memory – 5.9 Mbit SRAM Memory – […]

Posted on by Jean-Luc Aufranc (CNXSoft) - No Comments on $50 Forgix board pairs Raspberry Pi RP2354 MCU with Trion T8 FPGA in Teensy form factor

$50 Forgix board pairs Raspberry Pi RP2354 MCU with Trion T8 FPGA in Teensy form factor

Forgix RP2354 T8 board

Adiuvo Engineering’s Forgix is a development board pairing a Raspberry Pi RP2354 microcontroller with 2MB flash and an Efinix Trion T8 FPGA in the Teensy 4.0 form factor. The board also features a 16 Mbit PSRAM chip, a USB-C port, a push-button, an RGB LED, and through and castellated holes routed to either the RP2354 MCU or Trion T8 FPGA for SPI, I2C, UART, ADC, USB 1.1, and custom interfaces.   Forgix board specifications: SoC – Raspberry Pi RP2354B  CPU Dual-core Arm Cortex-M33 @ 150 MHz with Arm Trustzone, Secure boot Dual-core 32-bit RISC-V Hazard3 @ 150 MHz (3-stage in-order pipeline; RV32IMAC with Zba, Zbb, Zbs, Zbkb, Zcb, Zcmp, and Zicsr extensions) Up to two cores can be used at a time, either 2x Arm, 2x RISC-V, or 1x Arm + 1x RISC-V Memory – 520 KB on-chip SRAM Storage – 2MB of stacked (in-package) flash memory FPGA – Efinix Trion T8F49 connected to […]

Posted on by Jean-Luc Aufranc (CNXSoft) - 2 Comments on Lua-programmable ELM11-Feather board puts Gowin GW1NR FPGA into Feather form factor (Crowdfunding)

Lua-programmable ELM11-Feather board puts Gowin GW1NR FPGA into Feather form factor (Crowdfunding)

ELM11-Feather FPGA board

BrisbaneSilicon ELM11-Feather is a “microcontroller” board based on a Gowin GW1NR FPGA that is natively programmable in Lua, C, SystemVerilog, and VHDL. Compatible with the Adafruit Feather form factor, the board features GPIO headers, a built-in debugger, a USB-C port for power and programming, and a 2-pin header for a LiPo battery. The company calls it a microcontroller board because the FPGA runs a PicoRV32 MCU softcore at up to 75 MHz with 1MB RAM and 8MB flash, programmable with Lua, and the user can also customize hardware layers with RTL code using the remaining FPGA fabric. ELM11-Feather specifications: FPGA – Gowin GW1NR-LV9 FPGA from the GW1NR-9 family 8K LUTs 8,640 logical units (LUTs) 6,480 flip-flop 17,280 bits shadow SRAM (SSRAM) 486 Kbit block SRAM (BSRAM) 64 Mbit (8MB) PSRAM 608 Kbit user flash 2x PLL Up to 276x user I/O USB – 1x USB Type-C port for power and […]

Posted on by Debashis Das - No Comments on AMD Versal Premium Gen 2 MoP adaptive SoC integrates 32GB LPDDR5X to shrink board footprint by 60%

AMD Versal Premium Gen 2 MoP adaptive SoC integrates 32GB LPDDR5X to shrink board footprint by 60%

 Versal Premium Gen 2 Memory on Package (MoP) adaptive SoCs

AMD has announced the Versal Premium Gen 2 Memory-on-Package (MoP) adaptive SoCs, adding an integrated memory option to the Premium Gen 2 family, a topic we covered back in November 2024. While the core silicon (dual-core Cortex-A72 + dual-core Cortex-R5F + high-end FPGA fabric) remains the same, the new devices (2VP3422, 2VP3522, and 2VP3622) integrate up to 32 GB of LPDDR5X memory directly inside the package. This removes the need for external high-speed memory on the board and reduces PCB area by up to 60%. This also eliminates high-speed memory routing on the carrier board, increasing the maximum memory bandwidth to 288 GB/s. AMD Versal Premium Gen2 MoP specifications: CPU cores Dual-core Arm Cortex-A72 application core, 48 KB/32 KB L1 Cache w/ parity & ECC; 1 MB L2 Cache w/ ECC Dual-core Arm Cortex R5F, 32 KB/32 KB L1 Cache, and 256 KB TCM w/ECC Memory on Package 32 GB of LPDDR5X DRAM […]

Posted on by Jean-Luc Aufranc (CNXSoft) - 1 Comment on Visualize radio signals with Raspberry Pi 5-based QuadRF 4×4 MIMO software-defined radio tile (Crowdfunding)

Visualize radio signals with Raspberry Pi 5-based QuadRF 4×4 MIMO software-defined radio tile (Crowdfunding)

QuadRF real-time RF camera

QuadRF is a 4×4 MIMO software-defined radio (SDR) tile powered by a Raspberry Pi 5 SBC that functions as a real-time RF camera, allowing users to visualize radio signals in their environment using a phone or computer running an augmented reality app. QuadRF measures differences in signal arrival time using four coherent antennas and renders a live RF overlay directly on your phone or laptop at 30 FPS, letting you see RF signals from Wi-Fi devices, wireless cameras, smartphones, drones, beacons, and lab transmitters. QuadRF specifications: Compute & Signal Processing Raspberry Pi 5 SBC for onboard computation and control. Lattice ECP5 FPGA (LFE5U-45F-7BG256I) for distributed DSP and beamforming. Analog Devices MAX2850 (Upconvert) & MAX2851 (Downconvert) Mixers. 5.6 Gbit/sec MIPI data path between the RF FPGA and the Pi 5 Direct local processing on Pi 5 or network streaming for external processing. RF & Wireless 4x Rx / 4x Tx full-duplex […]

Posted on by Jean-Luc Aufranc (CNXSoft) - No Comments on PZSDR P047 RF-ADC and RF-DAC high-end SDR board is based on AMD Zynq UltraScale+ ZU47DR RFSoC (Crowdfunding)

PZSDR P047 RF-ADC and RF-DAC high-end SDR board is based on AMD Zynq UltraScale+ ZU47DR RFSoC (Crowdfunding)

PZSDR P047 RF-ADC and RF-DAC board

PZSDR P047 RF-ADC and RF-DAC software-defined radio (SDR) board is based on AMD Zynq UltraScale+ ZU47DR RFSoC with a quad-core Cortex-A53 processor, a dual-core Cortex-R5F real-time CPU, FPGA fabric, eight RF ADCs, and eight RF DACs. The board features 6GB of DDR4 memory (4GB for PS, 2GB for PL), 8 GB eMMC flash, and 512 Mbit QSPI flash, plus microSD card and M.2 NVMe sockets for storage, a mini DP video output, a Gigabit Ethernet RJ45 port, two 100 Gbps QSFP28 cages, a USB 3.0 port, plus JTAG and serial debug interfaces, and a 32-pin IO header.  It makes use of all RF channels of the RFSoC with 8 receiver and 8 transmitter connectors, plus various clock inputs. The company says the PZSDR P047 is ideal for advanced MIMO wireless applications such as cellular and shortwave communication. PZSDR P047 RF-ADC and RF-DAC specifications: SoC FPGA – AMD Xilinx Zynq UltraScale+ […]

Posted on by Jean-Luc Aufranc (CNXSoft) - No Comments on Altera Agilex 9 Direct RF-Series AGRW039 SoC FPGA targets high-performance RF systems

Altera Agilex 9 Direct RF-Series AGRW039 SoC FPGA targets high-performance RF systems

Agilex 9 FGPA Direct RF-Series

Altera’s wideband Agilex 9 Direct RF-Series AGRW039 SoC FPGA is designed for high-performance Radio Frequency (RF) systems in aerospace, defense, and advanced communications systems. It is the fourth device in Altera’s Agilex 9 Direct RF-Series, and compared to the previous generation AGRW027, the new AGRW039 delivers about 45% more logic resources, 45% more DSP resources, and 43% more block RAM. It also integrates a 64Gsps wideband RF, a hard quad-core Cortex-A53 processor, and supports DDR5 and LPDDR5 memory. Agilex 9 Direct RF AGRW039 SoC FPGA key features and specifications: Hardware CPU – Quad-core Arm Cortex-A53 processor @ up to 1.41 GHz FPGA fabric 3.9M logic elements (LEs) 1.3M adaptive logic modules (ALMs) 18,960 M20K memory Blocks 370 Mb M20K memory Size 65,280 MLAB memory count 40 Mb MLAB memory size 24,600 18×19 multipliers 12,300 DSP/AI blocks Single Precision – 18.4 TFLOPS Memory I/F – DDR5, LPDDR5, DDR4 Peripherals PS – […]

Posted on by Debashis Das - 4 Comments on ModRetro M64 – An AMD Artix UltraScale+ FPGA based open-source Nintendo 64-compatible console with original cartridge support

ModRetro M64 – An AMD Artix UltraScale+ FPGA based open-source Nintendo 64-compatible console with original cartridge support

M64 Console Clear

ModRetro has announced the M64, an open-source Nintendo 64-compatible console powered by an AMD Artix UltraScale+ FPGA, designed to play original cartridges using hardware-level emulation instead of software. The M64’s reliance on an AMD Artix FPGA enables accurate and responsive gameplay, and the console supports original game cartridges and controllers, while also adding modern connectivity features such as HDMI, WiFi, Bluetooth, and USB-C. ModRetro M64 specifications: FPGA – AMD Artix UltraScale+ (16nm architecture) Memory – PSRAM Storage – MicroSD card slot (for firmware updates and potential homebrew applications) Media Interfaces – Dedicated Nintendo 64 physical cartridge slot for original retro media preservation and play. Display – HDMI port (upscaling for modern TVs, supporting custom video filters like Scan Line and CRT profiles) Audio – Digital audio output via HDMI Connectivity Bluetooth with advanced “SCI” wireless mode (ModRetro’s own low-latency protocol) Wi-Fi support for firmware upgrade USB – 3x USB-C ports […]