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Altera's Stratix III FPGAs Support SGMII on LVDS I/Os (May. 05, 2008)
Offering interface speeds of 1.25 Gbps and meeting SGMII’s stringent jitter performance requirements, Stratix III LVDS I/Os support triple-speed Ethernet (10/100/1000 Mbps) interfaces without transceivers. |
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New Release Of Lattice FPGA Design Tools Extends Performance And Productivity (May. 05, 2008)
ispLEVER Design Tool Suite Includes Industry-First SSO Analyzer for SERDES Design and New, Upgraded Synthesis and Simulation Tools |
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Maxim Integrated Products and Altera Offer a Simple, Cost-Effective Solution to Protect FPGA Designs (Apr. 29, 2008)
The security solution utilizes a challenge-and-response-based authentication (identify friend or foe, or IFF) sequence between the FPGA and a 1-Wire secure memory device to differentiate between an authorized and a cloned environment. |
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Lattice Announces New CPLD Family For Low Power, High Volume Portable Applications (Apr. 28, 2008)
This second-generation in-system programmable CPLD family is ideal for low power, high volume portable applications, with typical standby current as low as 10µA. |
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Actel Partners With Pigeon Point Systems to Deliver TCA Management Solutions (Apr. 22, 2008)
The first products will include development kits to speed the design of Advanced Telecom Computing Architecture (ATCA) and Advanced Mezzanine Card (AMC) carrier board management controllers, all based on the Intelligent Platform Management Interface (IPMI) architecture. |
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Lattice and Aldec Announce New Alliance For FPGA Design And Verification (Apr. 21, 2008)
Active-HDL Lattice Edition will be bundled with Lattice's ispLEVER® design tool suite, providing mixed language simulation (VHDL, Verilog and SystemVerilog), co-simulation with Simulink® from The MathWorks™ and simulation support for Lattice encrypted IP Cores. |
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Lattice Semiconductor and Synplicity Extend Partnership (Apr. 21, 2008)
Under the terms of the new agreement, Synplicity will be Lattice Semiconductor’s exclusive synthesis partner, and Lattice will broaden its synthesis offering in its ispLEVER® design tool suite to include the industry-leading Synplify Pro logic synthesis software for higher-level designs. |
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Executive Interview: Xilinx chairman Wim Roelandts (Apr. 21, 2008)
Roelandts met EE Times Europe during his first visit to Israel, where he attented the recent Global Semiconductor Association conference. |
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LatticeECP2M FPGAs Support High-Speed Serial JESD204 Specification (Apr. 15, 2008)
Embedded High-Speed SERDES Channels in the LatticeECP2M FPGA Family Enable Support of the JESD204 Serial ADC Standard |
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Xilinx Unveils Embedded Development Environment and Ecosystem Supporting New Virtex-5 FXT FPGAs (Apr. 14, 2008)
Embedded Development Kit (EDK) 10.1 Kick-Starts PowerPC 440 Processor Embedded Designs, Enables Support for Operating Systems, Tools and Boards |
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Xilinx Demonstrates New Triple-Rate SDI Reference Designs for Broadcast Video Applications at NAB 2008 (Apr. 14, 2008)
Virtex-5 FPGAs enable future-proof interface designs capable of supporting 1080p60 video |
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Xilinx Virtex-5 FPGA Powers New Universal Multi-Channel Processor From Miranda Technologies (Apr. 14, 2008)
Innovative 3G/HD/SD audio/video processor leverages triple-rate SDI capabilities of the DSP-optimized Virtex-5 SXT platform |
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Xilinx and OmniTek Successfully Deploy Advanced Video Processing Platform (Apr. 14, 2008)
Industry's first development platform to bridge SD/HD/3G-SDI to the PCI Express standard enjoys broad adoption among designers of broadcast and digital cinema equipment |
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Xilinx Virtex-5 FPGA Accelerates Development of Ross Video Multi-Definition Keyer for Digital Broadcast Production Applications (Apr. 14, 2008)
Industry's first multi-channel, open-platform SD/HD video production switch takes advantage of integrated high-speed logic, DSP and on-chip memory of Virtex-5 LXT FPGA |
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Altera Demonstrates 3-Gbps SDI Leadership and 1080p Video Framework at NAB Show 2008 (Apr. 08, 2008)
Altera Corporation and its high-definition (HD) video partners will showcase a broad portfolio of industry-leading programmable solutions, including a 3-Gbps serial digital interface (SDI) for use in broadcast system designs, at the upcoming NAB Show 2008 |
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Harris Corporation Selects Altera Stratix II GX FPGAs for Platinum Line of Routing Switchers (Apr. 08, 2008)
Using the Stratix II GX FPGA, Harris Platinum routing switchers combine the best of both high-bandwidth video signal routing and an internal Time Division Multiplexing (TDM) architecture to provide the world’s only embedded audio infrastructure router. |
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Xilinx Introduces the Industry's Highest Performance, Largest Capacity FPGAs for Space Applications (Apr. 07, 2008)
New reprogrammable, radiation-tolerant Virtex-4QV family optimized for high-performance logic, DSP, and embedded processing |
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Altera Broadens Markets for Arria GX Family (Apr. 07, 2008)
Altera Corporation today announced its ArriaTM GX FPGA family now offers support for transceiver speeds up to 3.125 Gbps, additional serial protocols and reduced static power. |
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Xilinx Ships Virtex-5 FXT FPGAs, Delivering the Ultimate in System Integration for Designs That Demand High-Performance Processing and High-Speed Serial I/O (Apr. 01, 2008)
Fourth Platform in 65nm Virtex-5 Family of FPGAs Now Available With PowerPC 440 Processor Block, GTX High Speed Transceivers, and over 190 GMACs DSP performance |
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Altera's Low-Power Cyclone III FPGAs Deliver Highest Integration for Portable Applications (Mar. 25, 2008)
Designers of space-constrained high-volume applications in consumer, military and industrial markets can now take advantage of the combined lowest power and density leadership of the Cyclone III devices. |
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Xilinx Delivers Complete Design Tools Suite - Providing Breakthrough Improvements in Productivity, Performance & Power (Mar. 24, 2008)
Single unified delivery of total customer solution for FPGA logic, embedded and DSP designers delivers 2X faster run times and up to 38% faster performance |
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Altera FPGA Employed in EONIC's Electronic Warfare System (Mar. 24, 2008)
Altera Corporation today announced its Stratix® II FPGAs have been selected by EONIC B.V. for use in its SR‑5124 converged multi-channel signals acquisition system. |
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Altera and Bitec Deliver Platform for Next-Generation Video System Development (Mar. 19, 2008)
At the heart of the kit are Altera’s Cyclone® III FPGAs, which are an ideal video processing platform given the device’s large parallel processing capabilities with up to 288 multipliers, 4-Mbit embedded memory blocks, and low power consumption. |
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Xilinx Delivers Complete Virtex-5 FPGA Solution for XAUI Protocol (Mar. 17, 2008)
The complete solution includes a reference design, XAUI protocol characterization report for GTP transceivers, access to Xilinx(R) LogiCORE(TM) IP, and a PCIe(R) add-in card with CX4 connector development board. |
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Actel Ices Competition With New Low-Power, I/O-Optimized FPGA Family (Mar. 17, 2008)
Actel Corporation today introduced IGLOO® PLUS, a new family of low-power field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) with the industry's best power-, area-, logic- and feature-per-I/O ratios in a programmable device |
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ZTE Leverages Altera Stratix II FPGAs to Deliver New TD-SCDMA Remote Radio Unit (Mar. 17, 2008)
In the ZTE RRU, the Stratix II device performs all major digital intermediate frequency (IF) functions. |
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Actel Fusion PSC Delivers Highest Accuracy for Intelligent System Management and Industrial Control (Mar. 10, 2008)
With analog-to-digital converter (ADC) accuracy as high as 0.53 percent, the new Fusion PSC calibration intellectual property (IP) solution eliminates the additional discrete ADCs and pre-scalers often required to achieve this level of accuracy. |
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SiliconBlue 65-nm FPGAs run on microamps (Mar. 07, 2008)
SiliconBlue Technologies Corp. (Sunnyvale Calif.) is offering a family of low-power FPGAs implemented on a 65-nm CMOS manufacturing process |
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Xilinx Accelerates Development of SFI-5 Applications With Hardware-Verified Solutions (Mar. 04, 2008)
Xilinx today announced availability of a free hardware-verified reference design and 3rd party IP for the optical internetworking forum (OIF) SERDES framer interface level 5 (SFI-5) standard. |
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Xilinx Delivers Complete XtremeDSP Development Platform for Low Cost Video Development (Feb. 26, 2008)
This new kit gives designers of video applications everything they need to accelerate their development including robust video specific intellectual property (IP), reference designs, XtremeDSP and Xilinx Embedded Processing development tools, and a Spartan-3A DSP FPGA development board with video daughter card. |
