EDN

Accelerating Bioinformatics Searching and Dot Plotting Using a Scalable FPGA Cluster

This paper presents an FPGA-based accelerated solution for DNA sequencing and dot plotting. It describes how multiple FPGA devices can be deployed to create a scalable cluster dedicated to the task of ...
Hackaday

Hands-On With New Arduino FPGA Board: MKR Vidor 4000

Hackaday brought you a first look the Arduino MKR Vidor 4000 when it announced. Arduino sent over one of the first boards so now we finally have our hands on one! It’s early and the documentation is ...
EDN

FPGA cluster accelerates bioinformatics app by 5000x, firm says

SAN FRANCISCO—Pico Computing this week said it has achieved greater than 5000X acceleration of a bioinformatics sequence analysis and dot plot algorithm using a cluster of 112 commodity FPGA devices.
Hackaday

ULX3S: An Open-Source Lattice ECP5 FPGA PCB

The hackers over at Radiona.org, a Zagreb Makerspace, have been hard at work designing the ULX3S, an open-source development board for LATTICE ECP5 FPGAs. This board might help make 2019 the Year of ...
Electronic Design

Redesigned FPGA Fabrics Solve Tough Mid-Range Challenges

Most FPGA vendors tend to focus on data-center workload applications, but a large percentage of users require different architectures for mainstream applications. Vertical markets needing mid-range ...
Augusta Free Press

The best FPGA boards for beginners

Programmable logic tech like Field Programmable Gate Arrays, also known as FPGAs, is a must-have toolkit for any modern circuit designer. Thanks to their expansive capabilities, these components are ...
The Next Platform

Genomics Marks The Next Sequence For FPGAs

There is a perfect storm developing that is set to whisk the once esoteric field programmable gate array (FPGA) processor ecosystem off the ground and into the stratosphere. While some might argue the ...