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Redefining its ECP3 FPGA family, Lattice Semiconductor has introduced the ECP4 FPGAs which are believed to be the first 6Gbit/s SerDes devices in the economical wire bond packaging. They are also available in flip chip packages de... More about Middle-Range FPGAs

Using technology that was announced last year, Xilinx has shipped the first Virtex-7 2000T FPGAs, claiming that they are the world's highest capacity PLD. The devices are the first to use Stacked Silicon Interconnect (SSI) technol... More about World's Highest Capacity FPGA

Altera continues with its embedded initiative in announcing six FPGA SoCs based on ARM's Cortex-A9 MPCore processor. In the second half of next year, silicon will be available for the SoCs based on the dual-core processor, integra... More about Total of Six Dual-Core FPGA SoCs

Lattice Semiconductor has announced that its Lattice ECP3 (economy plus third generation) FPGA family is compliant with the PCI Express 2.0 specification at 2.5Gbit/s. The FPGAs and their PCI Express IP core passed PCI-SIG PCI Exp... More about FPGAs suitable for communications, multimedia, server and mobile platforms

Samples are available now of the iCE40 Los Angeles mobileFPGA from SiliconBlue. The LP (low power) and HX (high speed) families target smartphones and tablets, respectively. Fabricated on TSMC 40nm CMOS, the company claims that th... More about Two Versions of Custom, Mobile FPGAs

Diodes has introduced a range of logic devices that is designed to provide a performance upgrade for 5V transistor transistor logic systems. Based on the latest CMOS process, the 74AHCT1Gxx logic devices operate from 4.5 to 5V and... More about Logic Devices with 8mA Output Current

The latest series of dual gate logic devices from Diodes reduces component footprints in small handheld products, such as tablet computers, smart phones, and e-readers. The 74LVC2G logic devices measure 1mm2 and have a maximum off... More about Dual gate logic devices suit tablet computers and smart phones

Lattice Semiconductor has announced the availability of a 4 x 3.125Gbyte/s version of the SRIO (serial rapid IO) 2.1, Level 1 endpoint core utilising the LatticeECP3 FPGA family. This is an extension of the SRIO v2.1 core that sup... More about Serial rapid IO supports up to 3.125Gbyte/s

Lattice Semiconductor has announced full support for Aptina's HiSPi (high-speed serial pixel interface) using LatticeXP2 FPGAs. The LatticeXP2 HiSPi bridge reference design allows any ISP (image signal processor) with a traditiona... More about Reference design enables image signal processors to interface with CMOS sensors

SiliconBlue unveiled its roadmap for FPGAs using TSMC's 40nm, low power, standard CMOS process at the Globalpress Summit in Santa Cruz, California. The mobileFPGA family will be available in Q2. They will, says the company reduce ... More about Two low power, 40nm CMOS FPGAs

At the Globalpress Summit in Santa Cruz, Altera revealed details of its plans to chart a new course to meet the ever-increasing bandwidth requirements as high-definition video, cloud computing and 3D gaming demand more than tradit... More about Direct Optical Interfaces in FPGAs

Shipment has begun of Xilinx's Kintex-7 K325T FPGA, built on TSMC's high performance, low power 28nm process technology. It is the first of 28 devices to use the 7 series architecture, so customers can migrate to Artix-7 and Virte... More about World's First 28nm FPGA

To address the need for low-cost configurable FPGA computing, Acromag has released the XMC-SLX mezzanine modules featuring the Xilinx Spartan-6 FPGA. The XMC modules provide computing power for custom signal processing and algorit... More about Mezzanine with Spartan-6

Synopsys has rolled out the HAPS-600 FPGA-based prototyping system that extends the prototyping capacity by a maximum of 81 million ASIC gates. The prototyping system, based on Xilinx Virtex-6 LX760 FPGA devices, enables early sof... More about FPGA-Based Prototyping System

Xilinx has announced an enhanced version of its Spartan-6 FPGA consumer video kit that gives systems designers a complete development platform for easily tapping into the flexibility and real-time video processing capabilities of ... More about Consumer video kit supports enhanced serial digital TV interfaces

Xilinx has developed the Zynq-7000 family for the processing and compute performance required in embedded video surveillance, automotive driver assistance and factory automation. The devices integrate an ARM CortexA9 MPCore 28nm, ... More about Dual-Core Processor Family

Eight single gate logic functions in the miniature 6pin DFN1010 package have been released by Diodes. Measuring 1x1mm with an off-board height of 0.4mm, the additions to the 74LVC1Gxx family are suitable for small handheld devices... More about Eight Single Gate Logic Devices

Altera has announced availability of the MAX V CPLD family that is power-efficient and features instant-on, single-chip, non-volatile characteristics. Ranging in density from 40 to 2,210 logic elements, the CPLDs deliver low power... More about Family Of Power-Efficient CPLDs

Lattice Semiconductor will show its MachXO2 family of infinitely reconfigurable PLDs which offer designers of low density PLDs a mix of low cost, low power and high system integration in a single device, claims the company. The PL... More about Third Generation FPGAs

Altera offers Stratix V FPGAs in 28nm process technology and has unveiled plans for 28nm Arria V FPGAs in the second half of this year, and for Cyclone V in Q1 2012. The Stratix V offers a performance of up to 350MHz and up to 1.1... More about Next-Generation 28nm FPGAs

Altera has released the Quartus II development software version 10.1. The Quartus II Subscription Edition software for CPLD, FPGA and HardCopy ASIC design includes the availability of a beta version of Qsys, the company's next-gen... More about Design Software For FPGAs

The Virtex-7 HT FPGAs from Xilinx have demonstrated 28Gbit/s serial transceiver performance which is required for next generation 100 to 400Gbit/s applications. The 28nm FPGAs are equipped with the industry's highest-speed and low... More about FPGAs, Serial Transceivers

Xilinx has announced the Spartan-6Q  and Virtex-6Q families of FPGAs. These FPGAs are suitable for meeting rigorous requirements of the aerospace and defence market. They include the defence-grade FPGA based on the low-cost, low-p... More about Reliable Defence-Grade FPGAs

An automated FPGA-to-ASIC conversion allows fabless semiconductor company KaiSemi to provide ASICs as replacement chips. An in-house tool performs an automated conversion directly from the original FPGA netlist into a functionally... More about FPGA-To-ASIC Replacement