Playing around with FPGAs used to be a daunting prospect. You had to fork out a hundred bucks or so for a development kit, sign the Devil’s bargain to get your hands on a toolchain, and only then can ...

The MARS FPGA is an ambitious, open-source project designed to surpass the capabilities of existing FPGA-based retro gaming systems, particularly the MiSTer FPGA. This powerhouse development board ...

Today ahead of the Bay Area Maker Faire, Arduino has announced a bevy of new boards that bring modern features and modern chips to the Arduino ecosystem. Most ambitious of these new offerings is a ...

It seems like the chip war between Intel and ARM is slowly winding down, at least for the time being. Intel for decades has doggedly sworn by chips based on its homegrown x86 architecture, but the ...

Over 200 billion ARM cores have been shipped many of which are being used in safety-critical applications such as ISO 26262, IEC 61508, DO-254, DO-178, IEC 62304, IEC 61511/13, IEC 62061 and ISO 13849 ...

When I was a kid, my best friend Jeremy lived just around the corner. I have an old black-and-white picture in my archive. It’s of me and Jeremy when we were 6 years old. We were sitting in a tree, ...