Today's FPGA designs are becoming larger and more complex, with hundreds of macros, intellectual properties, and re-usable parts of legacy designs. FPGA designers now face the huge challenge of rapidly ...
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As system designs begin to use components at the 130 and 90 nm process nodes, power consumption has once again hit the headlines. At 130 nm geometries, static power (caused by current leakage) has become ...
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Actel has announced that its radiation-tolerant RTSX-S family of field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) is now available from UMC's wafer foundry. The new family (RTSX-SU) provides customers with an alternate ...
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The PADS Router is an advanced, interactive trace editor that is available to printed circuit board (PCB) designers as part of the PADS product flow of electronic engineering software design tools. The ...
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Designing printed circuit boards in today's electronic industry presents unique challenges. To help manage all the complex requirements that make up circuit board design, EDA software must be both powerful ...
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Ref: z2717152m In the world of motor racing, speed is everything and not just on the track. In many classes, the electronic control unit (ECU) that controls the engine has become as critical a component ...
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Actel's flash-based FPGAs have been chosen by Hamilton Sundstrand, a division of United Technologies Corporation, for the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter (JSF) project. Actel's single-chip, reprogrammable ProASICPLUS ...
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Exar says that it can now offer the industry's first DS3/E3 LIU/Framer/JA combination device family. These devices follow Exar's successful single channel part, the XRT79L71 by adding multichannel integrated ...
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Actel has introduced what it calls its most flexible and comprehensive tool suite to date, the Libero integrated design environment (IDE) version 6.0. This is a streamlined IDE that integrates the industry's ...
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Exar's XRT86LXX incorporates the company's unique line interface unit (LIU) and framer in an innovative combination device. The XRT86L30 (single-channel) and XRT86L32 (dual-channel) are targeted at telecom ...
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Mentor Graphics has released its PADS2004 suites, the latest version of its Windows-based PCB system design flow. The suites feature a wide variety of ease of use, system integration and quality enhancements ...
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Actel has joined with Inicore, an intellectual property and design services partner, to deliver a turnkey design solution to the Targa Systems division of L3 Communications for a new line of data storage ...
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