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 ...
read more

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, ...
read more

Innoveda is now offering Visual Elite, an advanced HDL and system-level design tool that supports C/C++, VHDL and Verilog modelling with a new state-of-the-art graphical user interface (GUI) and multi-language ...
read more

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 ...
read more

Level One has introduced a free development tool called 'The Design Assistant'. The company says that Design Assistants are a compilation of information created to simplify the design of new systems, ...
read more

Intel is addressing developers' complex timing issues and faster-design requirements through the simplified slot switching (SSS) features of its IXF3461 combination Line Interface Unit (LIU) and framer. ...
read more

Innoveda has released a new software tool and interfaces that complete TransDesign, the industry's first fully integrated harness design solution for automating vehicle-level electrical system design. ...
read more

Developed locally by ASIC Design Services, PCILite provides a simple low-cost solution for a common PCI requirement. PCILite is a PCI Target which allows old ISA card designs to be converted to PCI, ...
read more

Innoveda has announced Windows NT-based software that couples VxSim, a host-compiled RTOS emulation tool from Wind River Systems, with Innoveda's V-CPU co-verification tool. The combination of V-CPU 'Implicit ...
read more

Revealed at the Intel Developer Forum Conference, the Intel Media Switch Family of products enables advanced applications, such as voice over IP (VoIP), distance learning, streaming video, teleconferencing ...
read more

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 ...
read more

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 ...
read more