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Tews Technologies has introduced the TCP631, a user-programmable FPGA-based cPCI module with 1,500,000 or 5,000,000 system gates. The module is designed for industrial, COTS, and transportation applications, where specialised I/O ... More about FPGA-Based cPCI Module

Actel has introduced flash based FPGAs for space flight applications. The RT ProASIC3 family has passed the testing required for MIL-STD-883 Class B qualification. The device provides designers of spaceflight systems with reprogra... More about Flash based FPGAs offer reprogrammability features

Lattice Semiconductor has introduced more than 90 reference designs optimised for the MachXO and ispMACH 4000ZE PLDs. These reference designs enable the enhanced design and deployment of commonly used functions such as general pur... More about Reference designs for PLDs enable industrial and medical applications

Radiation-tolerant RTAX-DSP FPGAs by Actel are now qualified in accordance with the military and aerospace industry standard Mil-Std-883 Class B specification. The FPGAs add tolerance to radiation-induced ASICs and SRAM-based FPGA... More about Radiation-tolerant DSP FPGAs

Lattice Semiconductor and Helion have announced that they have released IP cores for the video security and surveillance camera market. Customised digital camera system manufacturer, Helion has demonstrated its IONOS video pipelin... More about IP Cores for Video Security

The Virtex-7, Kintex-7 and Artix-7 families can implement programmability only achievable in ASSPs or ASICs, says Xilinx, including portable ultrasound equipment consuming less than 2W and car infotainment systems driven by 12V, a... More about 28nm Process FPGA Architecture

Synopsys has introduced that its Synphony HLS (High Level Synthesis) product now includes optimised support for Xilinx Virtex-6 FPGAs. The high level synthesis flow provides Virtex-6 FPGA users with more automatic target-specific ... More about HLS product generates optimised RTL for Virtex-6 FPGA implementation

Altera claims it has broken through the "bandwidth barrier" with the 28nm Stratix V FPGAs. The GX version, the first device available, supports applications with 600Mbit/s to 12.5Gbit/s transceivers. The GT version is claimed to b... More about Bandwidth Barrier-Breaking FPGAs

Altera has announced the interoperability of its Stratix IV GT FPGAs with 40G QSFP (Quad Small Form-Factor Pluggable) optical modules from Avago Technologies. QSFP optical modules provide 40Gbit/s data rates across a single link o... More about FPGAs 11.3Gbit/s embedded transceivers

IAR Systems has announced support for Actel's SmartFusion devices that integrate an FPGA, ARM Cortex-M3-based microcontroller subsystem, and a programmable analogue on a single chip. The IAR Embedded Workbench seamlessly combines ... More about Mixed signal FPGAs feature middleware options

Mouser Electronics offers Actel SmartFusion, an intelligent mixed signal FPGA that integrates a flash FPGA, hard ARM Cortex-M3-based microcontroller subsystem, and programmable analogue. The FPGA is based on Actel's flash technolo... More about Mixed signal FPGA features IP protection

Curtiss-Wright Controls has released the enhanced ADC510 FPGA mezzanine card that delivers higher performance and is a faster version. The new card now features two enhanced Texas Instruments' ADC devices, and delivers sampling pe... More about 550MSPS FPGA Mezzanine Card

Elnec has released a 48pin universal programmer, which supports more than 52,000 devices. The BeeProg2 is an enhanced version of the BeeProg+ universal programmer. The company's target is to optimise it for fast programming of hig... More about 48pin Universal Programmer

Altera has released its Stratix IV FPGAs that have passed the Interlaken Alliance's device interoperability testing. The company certified its high-performance FPGAs interface with third-party components using the Interlaken proto... More about High-performance FPGAs support 10Gbit/s line rates

Tabula, a privately held fabless semiconductor company, has introduced a programmable logic architecture that uses time as a third dimension. The company says that, compared to 40nm FPGAs, a 40nm Spacetime device delivers 2.5 time... More about Logic Architecture is in 3D

Actel has released SmartFusion, claimed to be the world's first intelligent mixed-signal FPGA. The devices feature the company's FPGA fabric, a microcontroller sub-system built around a hard ARM Cortex-M3 processor, with its acces... More about Flash Mixed-Signal FPGAs

Xilinx has announced 28nm process FPGAs with a scalable architecture across product ranges and tools will be available at the end of the year. The resulting FPGAs will, says the company, deliver ASIC-class capabilities to meet cos... More about 28nm Technology Node FPGAs

Available in NXP's low voltage CMOS (LVC) and advanced ultra-low power (AUP) families, four six-pin PicoGate logic devices can be configured as five-pin functions. For example the 74AUP1G97 can be configured as a buffer, an invert... More about Four Configurable Devices

A high dynamic range A/D board from Signatec, the PX14400 high-speed digitiser captures signal frequencies up to 200MHz. It uses the programmable gain amplifier in 1dB steps for maximum gain attenuation flexibility. Alternatively,... More about PCI-Express Digitiser Board

A module from CommAgility provides a complete digital baseband design including L1 PHY (physical layer), L2 RLC/MAC (radio link control or media access control), S1/X2 interface and security processing for LTE or WiMAX in the comp... More about Processor Module For LTE or WiMAX

A high speed demultiplexer from e2v features LVDS-compatible data and clock inputs to interface into DSP to industry-standard FPGAs. The EV10CS140TPY series is in the company's proprietary single core, high speed, bipolar architec... More about High Speed Demultiplexer

ASIC designer, Open-Silicon and IP company Virage Logic have created a partnership agreement to provide designs including access to the latter's physical and advanced IP portfolio. In particular, say the two companies, as more cus... More about Partnership provides SoC IP

Two low power devices join the Nextreme family by fabless semiconductor company, eASIC. The NX750LP and NX750 Nextreme devices are now available with operating voltage down to 1V thereby enabling designers to achieve up to 40% low... More about Two Low Power Device Additions

Triad Semiconductor claims to have developed the first ARM Cortex-M0 processor combined with high-resolution, high-precision analogue resources, namely 16bit ADC and 12bit DAC and uncommitted op-amps. The TSX1001 is implemented on... More about Mixed-Signal ARM Cortex-M0 Processor