Mentor Graphics delivers portfolio of 20 Inventra IP cores for Altera PLDs 14 February 2001 Mentor Graphics and Altera have announced that Mentor Graphics has joined the Altera Megafunction Partner Programme (AMPPSM). Mentor Graphics will offer 20 Inventra commodity cores to Altera customers ...
Pipelining and re-timing techniques and their effect on power dissipation 14 February 2001, ASIC Design Services Pipelining and re-timing are common design techniques often used to tackle timing hurdles faced when designing on FPGAs. Understanding the effects of these techniques on the design structure stimulates ...
Cores targeted at frequently used, high-performance logic functions 14 February 2001, ASIC Design Services Actel has announced the availability of five new high-performance intellectual property (IP) cores for communications, networking and telecom applications. The five new solutions include: an 8b/10b encoder/decoder, ...
Clear Logic introduces pin-compatible replacements for Altera MAX AE 3000A family 8 November 2000, MB Silicon Systems Clear Logic has announced that it has successfully applied its link-configuration technology to yet another Altera programmable device family. The company claims its new CL3000A family of laser-processed ...
Local electronics company develops simple-to-use PCI interface 8 November 2000, ASIC Design Services ASIC Design Services (ADS) has developed a PCI interface that it says is low-cost and easy-to-use.
"PCILite was born out of the requirement for a simple PCI interface" says Tony Dal Maso, CEO of ASIC ...
PowerPC processors in Virtex-II FPGAs 22 November 2000 IBM and Xilinx have combined cutting edge technologies to create a revolutionary new product. Ann Duff, Xilinx USA, explains further.
IBM and Xilinx recently announced a partnership to create a new generation ...
Altera ships 50 millionth MAX 7128 PLD 22 November 2000 Altera, a leading supplier of programmable logic devices (PLDs), has announced that it has sold 50 million units of its industry-leading MAX 7128 device. The total quantity of units sold includes EPM7128, ...
New design software reduces FPGA power consumption by up to 35% 25 October 2000 Actel has unveiled the R1-2000 release of its Designer Series software. This release contains software enhancements that reduce power consumption of designs implemented in Actel SX-A FPGAs (field programmable ...
Programmable ASICs for e-appliances 25 October 2000, ASIC Design Services STMicroelectronics' ST72C254 is an 8 bit microcontroller with 8 KB embedded flash memory for home appliance, automotive body electronic and consumer goods applications. It can be reprogrammed up to 100 ...
Industry's fastest 5 V ISP CPLD family 15 March 2000 , Altron Arrow Lattice Semiconductor has released the 5 V ispLSI 1000EA family of high-density, in-system programmable (ISP) programmable logic devices (PLDs). This family consists of four family members including the ...
Enhanced 66 MNz 64 bit PCI core offers design flexibility benefits 16 Feb 2000, ASIC Design Services Historically, designing PCI bus products has been an extremely difficult proposition...
Most current FPGA PCI solutions continue to be of limited value because they are gate-level netlists or pre-placed ...
Internet players help drive MX FPGA design stratergy by renaming its design tool 1 March 2000, ASIC Design Services Actel Corporation says that it has shipped one million units of its MX family field programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) in the fourth calendar quarter of 1999. This milestone was achieved in less than two ...
Solution for PCI implementations at below ASSP cost 1 March 2000 Xilinx is offering what it claims is a low-cost PCI solution for the Spartan-II FPGA family, enabling designers to cut the cost of compliant and embedded PCI implementations by more than half compared ...
