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WFP031 – FPGA Memory

Memory is essential for a lot of things in your FPGA design. And FPGAs have a lot of different memory.

Content of this Episode:
* Flip-Flops
* SRAM blocks
* Ultra RAM
* Flash Memory
* High Bandwidth Memory
* Memory-Controller
* External Memory

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WFP030 – FPGA Conference 2025

It was time for a little trip again. I went to Munich to the three-day FPGA conference of PLC2 and the Vogel Verlag.

* FPGA Conference the biggest event in Europe
* Some facts
* 3 days
* 430 Participants
* 128 Lectures
* 110 Speakers
* 39 Exhibitors
* This year triple anniversary
* 40 years FPGA
* 30 years PLC2
* 10 years FPGA Conference
* All my visited talks
* Welcome to the Post-European Cyber Resilience Act (CRA) Era
* FPGAs and the Cyber Resilience Act
* Cyber Resilience Act: Planning your Security Future
* Making Simple FPGA Testbenches – Utilising Important Quality Measures
* A Cuckoo Hash-Based CAM Architecture for FPGA and ASIC Implementations
* Elevate your Design: Security and Power Efficiency with AMD Spartan UltraScale+ FPGAs
* Faster Change of Probe Signals using the Vivado Logic Analyzer
* Warning! Your FPGAs & SoC FPGAs are Under Attack
* Functional Safety for Hardware and Software
* Security, Regulations and FPGA-Based Systems – How to Make Your System Secure
* Verify the Bits that Fly : A Demonstration of Bitstream to HDL Equivalence Checking
* Why VUnit?
* Managing and Versioning Gateware Source Code on Git with Hog
* A Baseboard Management Controller for FPGA/SoC Board Supervision and Faster Bringup
* GateMate FPGA: Qualification for Radiation-Tolerant Applications
* GateMate FPGA: High-Speed Transceiver (SerDes) Hands-On
* Project-Based and Non-Project-Based Scripting in Vivado
* Multi-Run Management Using Vivado
* How to Drive Parallel High-Speed Circuits from an AMD FPGA
Next FPGA conference is from 30 June – 2 July 2026

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WFP029 – FPGA DSP

How can FPGAs calculate so fast? The secret inside an FPGA is a digital signal processing block.

Content of this Episode:
* What does DSP stand for?
* Common parts inside an DSP block
* Function representation
* Important facts

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WFP028 – FPGA Talk #1 FPGA companies

Episode 28 of the World of FPGA Podcast. Talking about our favorite FPGA companies.
Welcome to the FPGA Talk with the new co-host Glenn Kirilow 🎉

Content of this Episode
* Feedback
* FPGA companies
* AMD or XILINX
* Lattice
* Altera
* Cologne Chip
* GoWin
* Atmel, Microsemi and Microchip
* Use other FPGAs in future

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WFP027 – FPGA Slices

We will dive deep into the FPGA architecture. This episode is about slices.

Content of this Episode:
* What are slices?
* Difference between FPGA manufacturer
* Configuration
* Housekeeping

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WFP026 – FPGA Talk Intro

Episode 26 of the World of FPGA Podcast. About the hosts. Who are we, what do we do and our FPGA journey.
Welcome to the FPGA Talk with the new co-host Glenn Kirilow 🎉

Content of this Episode
* Introduction Glenn
* Introduction David
* Contact between Glenn and David
* First FPGA projects
* Way to VHDL
* PCB Software
* Time distribution at work
* Issue on Spartan 3
* Issue on Zynq

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WFP025 – FPGA Implementation

Have you ever asked yourself, what happens during FPGA implementation? In this episode I try to give an answer.

Content of this Episode:
* Placement
* Routing
* After routing process
* Similarity to a PCB layout

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WFP024 – FPGA Synthesis

Have you ever asked yourself, what happens during FPGA synthesis? In this episode I try to give an answer.

Content of this Episode:
* What is a netlist?
* Synthesis tool
* Elaboration Substep
* Matching to technology

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WFP023 – FPGA Development Process

FPGA development is a lot of fun. But also think about an appropriate development process.

Content of this Episode:
* Electronics development process
* Validation vs. Verification
* Difference to the FPGA development process

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WFP022 – VHDL Testbench

VHDL Testbenches have many interesting features to simulate and test your VHDL module. Let’s have a look into these functions.

Content of this Episode:
* VHDL Testbenches
* Using data files
* Multiple modules
* Automatic tests
* More automation

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