New non-volatile FPGA family boosts performance and capabilities 22 August 2007, Altron Arrow Lattice Semiconductor recently launched its third generation of non-volatile FPGAs, the LatticeXP2 family.
The product family consists of five members, with capacities from 5K to 40K 4-input look up ...
Low-cost CoolRunner-II starter kit accelerates designs 22 August 2007 The new low-cost CoolRunner-II CPLD starter kit from Xilinx is designed for prototyping high volume, ultra low-power applications such as handheld devices, smart phones, motor control interfaces and embedded ...
FPGA-based support for industrial Ethernet protocols 22 August 2007, EBV Electrolink Altera has announced FPGA-based support for Ethernet communications protocols used in industrial automation applications, including ProfiNet, Ethernet/IP, Modbus-IDA, EtherCAT, SERCOS III Interface, and ...
A Fusion of analog and digital, hardware and software 25 July 2007, ASIC Design Services As the world’s first mixed-signal FPGA family, Actel’s Fusion series integrates mixed-signal analog, up to 8 Mb of Flash memory, and FPGA fabric in a monolithic programmable system chip (PSC).
These ...
Mixed-signal FPGA simplifies power sequencing and management 30 May 2007, ASIC Design Services Actel designed its Fusion chip, the world's first mixed-signal FPGA, with power sequencing and management applications in mind.
All the benefits of a single-chip, Flash-based FPGA are available in Fusion ...
Take it to the limit: ExtremeDSP solutions 30 May 2007 It is no accident that Xilinx FPGAs serve an increasingly vital role in the design and development of today’s most demanding digital signal processing (DSP) systems.
After two decades of research, engineering ...
Atmel launches low-power CPLD family 30 May 2007, Altron Arrow, EBV Electrolink Atmel Corporation has launched its ATF15xxBE family of RoHS-compliant, 1,8 V CPLDs with standby power consumption of just 5 micro-amps claimed to be over 60% less power drain than ...
FPGA supports 533 Mbps DDR2 memory 30 May 2007, Altron Arrow Lattice Semiconductor Corporation has released its LatticeECP2-50 and LatticeECP2-12 FPGA devices, produced on 90 nm Fujitsu CMOS technology utilising 300 mm wafers.
The devices employ a DDR2 SDRAM memory ...
Low cost FPGAs with integrated transceivers 30 May 2007, EBV Electrolink Altera has introduced the Arria GX range of FPGAs, its fourth generation of programmable logic devices with on-chip, high-speed serial transceivers, optimised for PCI Express (PCIe), Gigabit Ethernet ...
Implementing keypad scanners with CoolRunner-II 16 May 2007 In this article Xilinx provides a functional description of Verilog source code for a keypad scanner. The code is used to target the lowest density, 32-macrocell CoolRunner-II XC2C32A CPLD device in a ...
High-performance FPGAs feature innovative programmable power technology 4 April 2007, EBV Electrolink Altera claims its Stratix III FPGA family delivers the industry’s lowest power consumption of any high-density, high-performance programmable logic device.
Built on TSMC's 65 nm process, Stratix III ...
Microcontrollers step in to replace Intel's 186/188 family 4 April 2007 Innovasic Semiconductor has announced that it will provide replacements for Intel's 186/188 family of microcontroller products that are being discontinued. All the chips will be available in current conventional ...
Multitasking microcontroller for resource-intensive applications 4 April 2007 Elba is shipping a new multitasking microcontroller intended for use by scientists, engineers, experimenters and hobbyists. The ZX-1281 is a 64-pin TQFP format device targeted to high volume products ...
FPGA-based system said to greatly speed digital circuit design 7 February 2007 The HDK-0501 is a new FPGA-based design system that its manufacturer believes is the fastest way to get a digital logic circuit running, with an added bonus of controlling and interactively monitoring ...
Actel's MicroTCA solution 7 February 2007, ASIC Design Services Telecommunications computing architecture (TCA) standards are defined by the PCI Industrial Computer Manufacturers Group (PICMG). AdvancedTCA (ATCA) is a 2002 PICMG standard that defines an architecture ...
Design environment supports low-power FPGAs 7 February 2007, ASIC Design Services The latest version of Actel′s Libero integrated design environment (IDE) offers full support for the company’s newest Flash-based field-programmable gate array (FPGA) solutions: the low-power Igloo family. ...
R&D team to assist in next-generation FPGA family development 7 February 2007 The Xilinx advanced platforms group has established a research and development (R&D) team in its Asia Pacific headquarters to assist in the development of the company's next-generation 45 nm platform ...
Using a CoolRunner-II CPLD as a data stream switch 24 January 2007 This article shows how a Xilinx CoolRunnerTM-II CPLD can be used as a simple logical switch that can quickly and reliably select between different MPEG video sources.
The source code for the design, ...
Lowest power FPGa delivers superior power management for portable electronics 18 October 2006, ASIC Design Services Actel’s new IGLOO family of reprogrammable, full-featured Flash FPGAs is designed to meet the demanding power and area requirements of today’s portable electronics. Based on the company’s nonvolatile ...
Lowest power FPGA family an alternative to ASICs and CPLDs 4 October 2006, ASIC Design Services Addressing the tight power budgets of the portable market, Actel has introduced the IGLOO family, claimed to be the industry’s lowest power field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs).
With 5 μW static power, ...
