Andrew Canis our CEO attended the Intel Capital Summit in April, 2019 and he gave an elevator pitch talking about LegUp Computing. We really appreciate all the support from our investor Intel Capital. Check out the video below: LegUp Computing Inc. provides an integrated development environment that enables hardware designers to program any FPGA device in […]
Author: Andrew Canis
University of Toronto True Blue Expo
Thanks to everyone who came by and visited out booth at MaRS for the University of Toronto startup showcase! We really enjoyed talking about how LegUp Computing’s technology makes FPGAs much easier to program. I was amazed at how many startups are being spun out of the University of Toronto. We appreciate the support from […]
LegUp Seminar Talk at the University of Toronto
Our CEO and CTO, Andrew Canis and Jongsok Choi, gave a talk at the monthly FPGA seminar at the University of Toronto last week. We started with an overview of LegUp Computing and how FPGAs compare to CPUs. We talked about how our LegUp high-level synthesis software tool makes FPGA design easier by allowing a […]
LegUp joins Xilinx Partner Program and Demos Memcached at XDF
LegUp Computing is proud to announce we have been added to Xilinx’s Partner member website. We have also listed our Memcached database solution running on an AWS F1 (FPGA) instance. Please read our solution brief for more details. Andrew Canis and Ruolong Lian will be at the Xilinx Developer Forum in Frankfurt, Germany this coming […]
LegUp 6.4 Release!
We are excited to announce that LegUp 6.4 has been released! You can download LegUp here. Release Notes New features and bug fixes for this release: Fused multiply-add (FMA) support using hard floating-point DSPs on Intel Arria 10. This allows performing multiply-add (a = b*c+d) or multiply-accumulate (a += b*c) using a single hardened DSP block running […]
Github with LegUp examples and LegUp 6.3 Release!
We are excited to announce that we now have a public github repository with LegUp example code to give our users a better idea of real-life example applications using LegUp: https://github.com/LegUpComputing/legup-examples The main goal of the repository is to provide more design examples using high-level synthesis to help users understand the coding style needed to […]
Using a Verilog Module in a LegUp Project
In this post we will give an example of integrating an existing hardware core into a LegUp software project. This can be useful if you already have Verilog for an IP block which you want to call from your C software code. The example we will use is the Canny edge detector, and we will […]
LegUp Computing closes a seed-funding round led by Intel Capital
TORONTO, February 22, 2018 — LegUp Computing, Inc. announced today that it closed a seed funding round led by Intel Capital. LegUp offers a cloud platform that enables software developers to program, deploy, scale, and manage FPGA devices for accelerating high performance applications without requiring hardware expertise. The technology enables the next generation of low-latency […]
Video Filtering on AWS F1 FPGA using LegUp
Introduction In this post we’re going to show you a video filtering demonstration on an Amazon cloud FPGA using LegUp. The specific video filter we will showcase is Canny edge detection as we described in a previous post. This same approach could be used to implement any other image filter that uses convolution (blur, sharpen, […]
Canny Edge Detector Using LegUp
Introduction In this post we will explain how to implement a Canny edge detector on an FPGA. We will describe the entire algorithm in C code using LegUp, allowing us to avoid the difficulty of implementing this design in Verilog or VHDL. First, watch this quick video of the the finished edge detector, running on […]