SoC FPGAs integrate ARM processor 12 December 2011, EBV Electrolink Altera unveiled its family of ARM-based SoC FPGAs, integrating 28 nm Cyclone V and Arria V FPGA fabric, a dual-core ARM Cortex-A9 MPCore processor, error correcting code (ECC) protected memory controllers, ...
FPGAs boast 28 Gbps transceivers 9 November 2011, EBV Electrolink Altera announced it has started shipping what it claims are the world’s first FPGAs featuring 28 Gbps transceivers.
Stratix V GT devices are tailored to enable designers of leading-edge communications ...
Assertion-based verification benefits FPGA designs 26 October 2011, ASIC Design Services Ensuring functional correctness on RTL designs continues to pose one of the greatest challenges for today’s FPGA and ASIC design teams. Very few project managers would disagree with this statement. In ...
FPGAs boast 28 Gbps transceivers 12 October 2011, EBV Electrolink Altera announced it has started shipping what it claims are the world’s first FPGAs featuring 28 Gbps transceivers.
Stratix V GT devices are tailored to enable designers of leading-edge communications ...
Industrial automation solutions using SmartFusion 2 March 2011, ASIC Design Services, PI SA (PROFIBUS & PROFINET SA) Industrial automation is the use of control systems, in concert with other applications of information technology to control industrial machinery and processes, reducing the need for human intervention. ...
Mixed-signal programmable ICs 24 November 2010 Lattice Semiconductor announced its third-generation mixed-signal devices in the form of the Platform Manager family.
The programmable devices are expected to simplify board management design by integrating ...
FPGAs integrate MCU and analog 10 November 2010, ASIC Design Services Actel unveiled SmartFusion, a mixed-signal FPGA integrating a complete microcontroller subsystem built around a hard ARM Cortex-M3 processor and programmable analog blocks on a Flash process. This combination ...
FPGAs with 6,375 Gbps transceivers 1 September 2010, EBV Electrolink Altera has enhanced its Arria II GX FPGA variant with 6,375 Gbps transceivers and up to 1,25 Gbps LVDS support, while broadening the reach of the family with the addition of the new Arria II GZ FPGA variant. ...
FPGAs in next generation wireless networks 21 July 2010 In addition to voice connectivity, digital cellular wireless networks such as GSM and its enhancement, GSM-EDGE, can now provide increased data speeds up to a (theoretical) limit of 384 Kbps.
Third generation ...
Altera unveils new-generation FPGAs 23 June 2010, EBV Electrolink Altera has announced its next-generation 28 nm Stratix V FPGA family, said to be the industry’s highest bandwidth FPGA. Offering up to 1,6 Tbps of serial switching capability, the FPGAs leverage a myriad ...
Xilinx unveils ARM-based architecture 9 June 2010 Xilinx has unveiled the architecture for a new Extensible Processing Platform based on the ARM Cortex-A9 MPCore processor.
The platform enables system architects and embedded software developers to ...
Programmable logic goes 3D 12 May 2010 A privately held, fabless semiconductor startup company called Tier Logic has introduced new 3D-based technology for FPGAs and ASICs, known respectively as TierFPGA and TierASIC devices.
The company’s ...
FPGAs integrate MCU and analog 31 March 2010, ASIC Design Services Actel has unveiled SmartFusion, a mixed-signal FPGA integrating a complete microcontroller subsystem built around a hard ARM Cortex-M3 processor and programmable analog blocks on a Flash process. This ...
Flash-based FPGAs in shrinking medical devices - Part 2 17 February 2010, ASIC Design Services HMI and miniature motor control
In next-generation portable home-based medical devices, keypads, light-emitting diodes (LEDs) for backlight and display, touch screens, speakers and miniature motors are ...
Flash-based FPGAs in shrinking medical devices - Part 1 3 February 2010, ASIC Design Services Increasing healthcare costs, the prevalence of chronic diseases, an ageing ‘baby boomer’ community, and large emerging markets in countries such as China, India and Brazil, are creating tremendous demand ...
FPGAs gain PCIe 1.1 compliance 11 November 2009 Xilinx announced that its low-cost Spartan-6 FPGA family is compliant with the PCI Express 1.1 specification, enabling implementation of serial connectivity solutions for consumer, automotive, wireless ...
FPGA for wireless and wireline applications 11 November 2009, Altron Arrow Lattice Semiconductor has announced that samples of the LatticeECP3-150 FPGA, the highest-density device in its high-value, low-power ECP3 mid-range FPGA family, are now generally available.
The ECP3-150 ...
The advantages of the 32-bit Cortex-M1 processor in Actel FPGAs 11 November 2009, ASIC Design Services The embedded market continues to move toward 32-bit processing. At the same time, the market has seen a significant increase in the use of FPGAs as flexible, cost-effective platforms for the rapid design ...
