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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. |
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Xilinx Introduces XtremeDSP Starter Kit for Low-Cost DSP Systems Development with Spartan-3A DSP FPGAs (Feb. 26, 2008)
The new kit delivers a complete solution for cost-sensitive DSP application development such as portable medical equipment, low-cost wireless infrastructure, flat panel displays and many other applications that require DSP performance along with low cost and low power. |
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Xilinx Delivers New Embedded Development Kit for Building Low-Cost Spartan FPGA-Based MicroBlaze Processor Systems With Linux OS (Feb. 25, 2008)
The kit provides design teams with a low-cost Spartan-3A DSP FPGA development board and a complete set of hardware and development tools, including the award winning Platform Studio embedded design tool suite which includes an Eclipse-based Software Development Kit (SDK) and ISE(TM) WebPACK(TM) design tools. |
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LatticeXP2 Non-Volatile FPGA Devices Move to Volume Production (Feb. 20, 2008)
Lattice Semiconductor Corporation today announced that the 17K LUT LatticeXP2 –17 device, one of five members of its third-generation non-volatile LatticeXP2™ FPGA family, has been fully qualified and released to volume production |
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Lattice Announces uClinux Support for Open Source Embedded Systems Design (Feb. 19, 2008)
Lattice Semiconductor today expanded its commitment to open source embedded system design by releasing an implementation of the uClinux Operating System (OS) targeted for its LatticeMico32™ embedded soft core processor |
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Altera Fuels Its Automotive Electronics Portfolio (Feb. 19, 2008)
Providing a platform for innovation in the automotive electronics market, Altera Corporation today announced it will begin shipping automotive-grade devices for selected members of its CPLD, FPGA and structured ASIC device families |
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Actel Offers New Low-Power IGLOO and ProASIC3 FPGAs for 99 Cents (Feb. 19, 2008)
Comparable in density to 128 macrocell complex programmable logic device (CPLD) offerings, the new 15,000-gate devices offer power consumption as low as 5 microwatts (5µW), 10 times less static power than more expensive CPLDs |
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R-Interface joins the Xilinx Alliance Program bringing high speed LDPC decoder solutions (Feb. 15, 2008)
R-Interface announced that it has joined the Xilinx(R) Alliance Program. The Company also announced the availability of a new LDPC (Low Density Parity check) platform IP core optimized for Xilinx® 65nm Virtex™ FPGA and low-cost Spartan™ FPGA families. |
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Xilinx Virtex-5 LXT Platform FPGAs Used in NEC's SX-9; World's Fastest Vector Supercomputer (Feb. 13, 2008)
With its PCI Express(R) Endpoint blocks and RocketIO(TM) GTP transceivers, NEC chose the Virtex-5 LXT platform for its ability to support the unique SX I/O interface. |
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Xilinx Announces Digital Pre-Distortion Reference Design for Freescale's LDMOS Power Amplifier Devices (Feb. 11, 2008)
The Xilinx DPD reference design can be used to develop LTE, WiMAX, WCDMA and TD-SCDMA multi-carrier systems and complements existing Digital Front End reference designs available from Xilinx. |
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Lattice and Praesum Communications Deliver Low-Cost Serial RapidIO Solutions (Jan. 29, 2008)
The Praesum core supports RapidIO 1x connectivity at data rates up to 3.125 Gbps. Depending upon the chosen feature set, the RapidIO 1.3 compliant core consumes 50 - 70% of an LFE2M20, the smallest member of the LatticeECP2M family. |
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Xilinx Launches New XtremeDSP Development Tools Package and XtremeDSP Development Kit (Jan. 28, 2008)
AccelDSP synthesis tool now offered with System Generator for DSP to include floating- to fixed-point conversion and architectural exploration of MATLAB algorithms |
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Actel Announces Availability of MIL-STD 883 Class B Qualified Four-Million Gate RTAX4000S (Jan. 28, 2008)
Actel Corporation today announced it has completed the stringent MIL-STD 883 Class B qualification of its four-million gate radiation-tolerant RTAX-S field-programmable gate array (FPGA). |
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Lattice Announces ispLEVER 7.0 Service Pack 2 FPGA Design Tool Suite (Jan. 28, 2008)
The release adds additional usability and accuracy enhancements to the Power Calculator, new versions of Synplicity’s Synplify synthesis and Mentor Graphics’ Precision RTL synthesis, and new support for the LatticeMico32™ embedded open source microprocessor. |
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Altera Provides 50-Gbps SFI-5 Interface on Stratix II GX FPGAs (Jan. 23, 2008)
Hardware tested to verify compliance to the SFI-5 standard, Stratix II GX FPGAs feature up to 20 high-speed serial transceiver channels that can operate at data rates between 600 Mbps and 6.375 Gbps, easily satisfying SFI-5 interface requirements. |
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Altera Ships Industry's Highest Density FPGA Featuring 340K Logic Elements (Jan. 22, 2008)
A member of Altera’s 65-nm Stratix® III family, the EP3SL340 features an industry-leading 340K logic elements (LEs), supports DDR3 memory with interface speeds in excess of 1067 Mbps, and offers the lowest power consumption of any high-density, high-performance programmable logic device (PLD). |
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Xilinx Adds Three New Devices to Award-Winning 65nm Virtex-5 Family to Give Customers in New Markets More Cost and Density Options (Jan. 21, 2008)
The Virtex-5 family offers designers the industry's most advanced, and available, 65nm FPGA technology and the only FPGAs with built-in PCI Express(R) Endpoint and tri-mode Ethernet MAC blocks. |
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Quest Innovations Selects the LatticeECP2/M FPGA Family for its Next Generation "Raptor" Camera System (Jan. 21, 2008)
Quest has integrated its QuadCore IP (intellectual property) into the Lattice FPGA. The QuadCore IP is a multi-core, scalable parallel pixel processing unit. By connecting 10 QuadCore IP cores together, Quest is able to deliver more than 1 Gbyte/second image processing and transfer. This latest version of the Raptor camera system will support more than 2Mpixels, 500 fps, and 8Gbytes of memory and is capable of doing pre-processing and storing up to 24 seconds of high speed image data. |
