FPGAs feature advanced security 5 August 2009, EBV Electrolink Altera has announced a new low-power FPGA family with security features. The new Cyclone III LS FPGAs offer high logic, memory and DSP density per board area, and consume less than 0,25 W of static power ...
How FPGAs are increasingly optimised for low-power designs 8 July 2009, ASIC Design Services Power consumption today is among the most crucial considerations in electronics design. From concerns about building systems that use too much energy to crafting portable devices that last days on a single ...
FPGAs qualified to industrial temperatures 8 July 2009, Altron Arrow Lattice Semiconductor has launched industrial temperature qualified versions of all its non-volatile LatticeXP2 FPGAs. Based on Lattice's 90 nanometre hybrid flexiFLASH technology, the XP2 family's volume ...
Altera releases Quartus Ii v9.0 software 27 May 2009, EBV Electrolink Altera has announced the availability of Quartus II software version 9.0, the company’s CPLD, FPGA and HardCopy ASIC development environment. The 9.0 version includes full support for Altera’s portfolio ...
Understanding metastability in FPGAs 1 April 2009, EBV Electrolink Metastability is a phenomenon that can cause system failure in digital devices, including FPGAs, when a signal is transferred between circuitry in unrelated or asynchronous clock domains.
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Altera expands FPGA and ASIC offering 1 April 2009, EBV Electrolink Altera has announced two new FPGA families with integrated transceivers. The new Stratix IV GT and Arria II GX 40 nm FPGA families join Stratix IV GX FPGAs and HardCopy IV GX ASICs to expand the company’s ...
High-performance FPGA family 1 April 2009 Xilinx has introduced a new generation of its flagship Virtex high-performance field programmable gate array (FPGA) family to enable developers of high-performance, compute-intensive electronic systems ...
FPGAs prioritise connectivity and low power 1 April 2009 Xilinx has introduced a new generation of its low-cost Spartan field programmable gate array (FPGA) family built for connectivity and low power.
The sixth generation in the Spartan FPGA Series, the ...
Actel releases Libero v8.5 4 February 2009, ASIC Design Services Actel has announced the availability of the Libero integrated design environment (IDE) version 8.5.
This comprehensive suite of software design tools extends support for the recently announced nano ...
Military qualified Flash-based FPGAs 21 January 2009, ASIC Design Services Actel has added new ProASIC3 and ProASIC3EL FPGAs to its military-qualified product offerings.
Verified to operate across the full military temperature range of -55°C to +125°C and ranging in density ...
Low-cost FPGAs in 3 x 3 mm package 26 November 2008, ASIC Design Services Actel has introduced ‘nano’ versions of its Igloo and ProASIC3 FPGAs at very competitive price levels, targeted at the high-volume, portable consumer market.
With power consumption as low as 2 μW, Igloo ...
FPGAs offer 50 Gbps SFI-5 interface 29 October 2008, EBV Electrolink Altera has added SERDES Framer Interface Level 5 (SFI-5) standard support to its Stratix II GX FPGAs with embedded transceivers, providing a 40 to 50 Gbps interface for high-performance optical communications ...
New family of low-power CPLDs 15 October 2008, Altron Arrow Lattice Semiconductor has announced its new, ultra low-power complex programmable logic devices (CPLD), the 1,8 volt ispMACH 4000ZE family. This second-generation in-system programmable CPLD family is ...
New version of Libero IDE 15 October 2008, ASIC Design Services Actel has announced new power reduction and design creation enhancements to its Libero Integrated Development Environment (IDE). Giving designers additional power supply options and enabling even lower ...
FPGAs optimised for 100 GbE 15 October 2008 Xilinx has announced what it claims is the world's first single-FPGA solution for telecommunications equipment manufacturers developing Ethernet bridging and switching solutions. Aimed at spurring innovation ...
FPGA solutions for PCI Express 15 October 2008 Xilinx recently announced a host of solutions for the PCI Express protocol based on its Virtex-5 LXT FPGAs.
The solutions include software/driver development kits, reference designs, and IP from a growing ...
Bidirectional ECAD-MCAD collaboration 15 October 2008 Mentor Graphics has developed design collaboration capability between electrical (ECAD) and mechanical (MCAD) design solutions, enabling teams to use this solution from the design inception to the manufacturing ...
Lattice supports uClinux 17 September 2008, Altron Arrow Lattice Semiconductor has expanded its commitment to open source embedded system design by releasing an implementation of the uClinux operating system targeted for its LatticeMico32 embedded soft core ...
Programmable touch screen solution 3 September 2008, Future Electronics Cypress Semiconductor recently introduced its TrueTouch touch screen solution based on the PSoC programmable system-on-chip architecture. The TrueTouch offering includes a single-chip touch screen solution ...
Ten steps to minimising power consumption in FPGA systems 20 August 2008, ASIC Design Services Lower system power consumption is a requirement for more applications than ever due to the dramatic increase in portable and battery-operated applications. Today, FPGA technology is being used more frequently ...
