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

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 ...
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

“The Thing”: A Homemade FPGA Board

The Thing is an unassuming name for an ambitious project to build an FPGA board from easy to find components. The project stems from an earlier build submitted to the 2018 Hackaday Prize by [Just4Fun] ...
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 ...
Electronic Design

SmartNIC Standardizes FPGA Offload

Xilinx extended the performance envelope of SmartNICs with its latest Alveo SN1000 SmartNIC (Fig. 1). The card targets the data center and edge-computing platforms with a combination of ...