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Alpha Data Releases New High-Performance Kintex-7 FPGA Based XMC Card
Alpha Data are proud to announce the launch of the ADM-XRC-7K1, the first in a range of new products based on 28nm Xilinx 7 series FPGA technology. The ADM-XRC-7K1 is a high performance reconfigurable XMC with PCI Express Gen2 interface, external memory and flexible front-panel IO options.The 7K1 is the latest in the highly successful line of PMC and XMC products from Alpha Data, an Alliance Program certified member with over a decade of experience with Xilinx. — Read More
New development kit for Tabula’s ABAX 3D FPGAs
The folks at Tabula have just announced the immediate availability of a development kit to accelerate the creation of designs based on their ABAX family of 3PLDs (which I think of as 3D FPGAs). This comprehensive development system will aid FPGA and ASIC designers to implement and test a rich variety of parallel and serial interfaces such as DDR3 and PCI Express Gen2, as well as embedded systems based on the popular V1 ColdFire soft CPU. — Read More
Intilop's Nano TOE performs Full TCP/IP Stack processing in yet another record breaking 76 ns!
Intilop, Inc. a pioneer and a recognized leader in providing complex networking IP building blocks and systems, today announced delivery of their new Ultra Low latency 4th Gen 10G Nano TOE. This extends their leadership of more than 3 years in providing full TOEs. Their mature, network proven series of TOE's have been deployed in hundreds of networks worldwide, including major world stock exchanges and financial institutions enabling trade executions in less than 1 us now! — Read More
NVIDIA’s Bill Dally Talks 3D Chips and More at GTC
Bill Dally, NVIDIA’s chief scientist, spent some time speaking with EE Times at this year’s GPU Technology Conference (GTC) in San Jose, California. The two discussed 3D integrated circuits, the rise of China as a technology player, the state of US R&D spending and a possible alternative to Ethernet. In the 3D chip realm, Dally sees a future where GPUs with several stacks of memory are integrated together. — Read More
Maxim offers free software to protect Spartan FPGAs
Maxim Integrated Products has a reference design to protect Xilinx Spartan-6 FPGAs. It comprises free security software from Maxim or Xilinx and the Maxim DS28E01-100, a 1-Wire secure memory device. Operating over a single pin, the built-in challenge-and-response SHA-1 authentication scheme in the DS28E01-100 prevents unauthorised product builds and safeguards FPGA IP. It is possible to remotely turn on fee-based software-controlled ... — Read More
PLDA Introduces High-performance Linux and Windows PCI Express Device Drivers Optimized for Latency-sensitive Applications
The PLDA device drivers and APIs provide a robust and flexible software framework for FPGA-based PCI Express adapter cards SAN JOSE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- PLDA, the industry leader in interconnect IP, today announced the 3rd generation Linux and Windows device driver for its PCI Express intellectual property cores and FPGA design kits. Redesigned from the ground up with an architecture optimized ... — Read More
BEEcube will be Exhibiting at the Design Automation Conference (DAC)
BEEcube Inc. will be exhibiting at the Design Automation Conference 49 June 3 - 7. Visit us at booth 519 at the Moscone Convention Center in San Francisco, California. BEEcube Inc., a leading provider of advanced reconfigurable platforms and system-level FPGA prototyping systems will be at DAC 49 with the BEE4, the ultimate full speed FPGA prototyping platform. The BEE4 is integrated with four FMC slots to accommodate ... — Read More
Cadence Expands System and SoC Verification Offerings to Accelerate System Integration and Reduce Time to Market
Cadence Design Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ: CDNS), a leader in global electronic design ... — Read More
Forte's SystemC High-Level Synthesis Licensed by HighIP Design Company
AT DAC BOOTH #1430 -- Forte Design Systems™, a leading provider of software products that enable design at a higher level of abstraction and improve design results, today announced High-IP Design Company, a SystemC intellectual property (IP) provider, has licensed Forte's Cynthesizer™ SystemC high-level synthesis (HLS). As part of the licensing agreement, Forte will resell ... — Read More
'MCU meets FPGA' seminar series launched by MSC, Lattice and Atmel
MSC Gleichmann UK, Lattice Semiconductor and Atmel have announced a series of workshops aimed at helping engineers to develop systems that combine microcontrollers (MCUs) and field programmable gate arrays (FPGAs). The organisers say:"In addition to the latest developments in MCU and FPGA technology, delegates will learn about the use of supporting hardware and software, including operating systems, software libraries and development tools." — Read More
Microsemi attains QML Class V qualification for space FPGAs
The folks at Microsemi have announced that their radiation-tolerant RTAX-S/SL field programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) have been qualified by the U.S. Defense Logistics Agency (DLA) as Qualified Manufacturers List (QML) Class V in accordance with military performance standard MIL-PRF-38535 space-level qualification requirements.QML Class V is the highest standard in the industry for space integrated circuits. — Read More
Microsemi Achieves QML Class V Qualification for Space FPGAs
Microsemi Corporation ( MSCC), a leading provider of semiconductor solutions differentiated by power, security, reliability and performance, today announced that its radiation-tolerant RTAX-S/SL field programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) have been qualified by the U.S. Defense Logistics Agency (DLA) as Qualified Manufacturers List (QML) Class V in accordance with military performance standard MIL-PRF-38535 space-level qualification requirements. — Read More
HuMANDATA Launches Altera Cyclone IV USB-FPGA Board
HuMANDATA LTD., a manufacturer of various FPGA/CPLD boards in Japan, today released EDA-301 of USB-FPGA board powered by Altera Corp.'s Cyclone IV E FPGA (EP4CE15F17C8N). HuMANDATA's EDA-301 is equipped with Altera high-spec Cyclone IV E FPGA on acompact, 53 x 54mm PCB. A configuration device, on-board oscillators, user switches and LEDs are mounted as minimum components of FPGA design and development. EDA-301 operates with 5.0 V external input or USB bus power. — Read More
Lattice Ships One Million MachXO2 Programmable Logic Devices
Lattice Semiconductor Corporation (NASDAQ: LSCC) today announced that it has shipped more than one million MachXO2™ PLDs since the production release of the entire family in December 2011. The one million unit shipment milestone in March 2012 represents the fastest customer adoption of any device family in the company's long history as a pioneer in the programmable logic industry. Less than four months after the MachXO2 family's production ... — Read More
Analog Devices To Demonstrate Analog Signal Chain, Reference Designs And Data Converter Compatibility With Xilinx FPGAs At Avnet’s X-fest 2012
Analog Devices, Inc. (NASDAQ: ADI) is demonstrating a variety of applications showing analog signal chains, reference designs and A/D and D/A converter compatibility with Xilinx, Inc. (NASDAQ: XLNX) FPGAs (field-programmable gate array) at Avnet’s (NYSE: AVT) X-fest 2012. X-fest is a series of free, full-day educational seminars for embedded systems engineers and covers integration of high-performance analog components with Xilinx FPGA design platforms. — Read More
Titan IC Systems Ltd. Launches 100Gb/s PCIe L2 - L7 Processing Platform
Published: May 09, 2012 Interop 2012, LAS VEGAS, Nevada, May 9, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Titan IC Systems has developed a unique capability, offering a flexible yet high-performance solution for L2-L7 processing, for the security appliances market. This is comprised of a stateful classification, flow statistics and RegEx-based content processor at 100Gb/s. Titan's L2-L7 Processing product - Themis - has been ... — Read More
Shifting sands: Trends in embedded systems design
Armed with over 15 years of data from the Embedded Systems Design subscriber study, ESD's publisher traces trends and preferences of embedded systems developers and industry vendors. Click for more content from ESD May 2012 I am prompted to write this short review of embedded systems design trends for two reasons: first, to mark a milestone, and second, purely out of curiosity about the embedded systems market--how it evolved and where it's going. — Read More
Excellicon Selects Verific Design Automation's Industry-Standard Parser Platform
ALAMEDA, CA -- (Marketwire) -- 05/09/12 -- Excellicon, a first-time exhibitor of end-to-end Timing Constraints Solution at the Design Automation Conference (DAC), today announced it adopted Verific Design Automation's industry-standard, IEEE-compliant front-end platform for use with its software for timing constraints authoring, verification and management. Verific's SystemVerilog and VHDL parsers and register ... — Read More
Lattice Announces Revolutionary Power Management Architecture
Lattice Semiconductor Corporation (NASDAQ: LSCC) today announced a scalable, in-system upgradable, star topology power management architecture that can be used across a wide range of circuit boards requiring more than 12 power supply rails. Lattice has simultaneously made available two new application notes for its award winning Platform Manager™ devices that will enable customers to quickly adopt the new architecture. — Read More
Simplified Design and Lower Total Cost of Ownership Highlight Xilinx 7 Series FPGAs at Interop 2012
Xilinx, Inc. ( XLNX) today announced participation at the Interop IT Expo and Conference in Las Vegas, from May 8-10, at the Mandalay Bay Convention Center, Booth #2158. At the conference, attendees will see the Virtex®-7 X690T FPGA , the first chip in the Xilinx® 7 series FPGA family highlighting advanced high-performance networking applications that require low power and a highly integrated, single-chip implementation. — Read More