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FPGAs support serial gigabit interface

Stratix III FPGAs are the industry's first programmable logic devices able to support Gigabit Ethernet SGMII on LVDS pins.

News from Altera Europe ( 7 May 2008)

Programmable logic saves portable power

With its low standby current, small form factor and instant-on operation, the ispMach 4000ZE family is ideal for handheld and portable equipment such as GPS systems.

News from Lattice Semiconductor UK (30 April 2008)

Programmable platform promises power savings

PolarPro II offers ultralow power consumption combined with small-footprint packages.

News from QuickLogic (29 April 2008)

Programmable devices sport 32bit RISC processors

XS1-G devices suit products requiring programmable flexibility and differentiation but which cannot support the relatively high cost of traditional programmable logic solutions.

News from XMOS Semiconductors (17 April 2008)

DSP design tools make the most of FPGAs

Industry's first ESL design methodology to enable a direct FPGA implementation path for DSP algorithms described using imaginary and complex numbers.

News from Xilinx (15 April 2008)

Arrays take more processing power into space

Virtex-4QV FPGAs are guaranteed for radiation tolerance, allowing aerospace designers to take advantage of high-performance high-density reprogrammable technology.

News from Xilinx ( 8 April 2008)

Low-cost FPGAs are enhanced for communications

Increased performance transceivers drive serial interfaces at speeds from 600Mbit/s to 3.125Gbit/s and reduce static power consumption by up to 20%.

News from Altera Europe ( 8 April 2008)

Array devices run improved MPEG-2 encoder

Enhanced core supports full 4:2:2 colour space, 1080i/720p resolution encoding and optional MPEG-2, Part 1 compliant transport stream encoding.

News from MathStar ( 3 April 2008)

FPGAs claim ultimate level of integration

Devices incorporate embedded PowerPC 440 processor blocks, high-speed RocketIO GTX transceivers and dedicated XtremeDSP processing capabilities.

News from Xilinx ( 1 April 2008)

FPGAs find even smaller packages

Package offers the highest amount of logic and I/Os for the footprint, allowing engineers to use FPGAs in new applications.

News from Altera Europe (26 March 2008)

Easy evaluation for Flash-based FPGAs

Kit showcases the low-power advantages, flexible implementation options and significant battery savings offered by Igloo FPGAs for portable applications.

News from Mouser Electronics (25 March 2008)

FPGAs are ideal for video processing

Kit supports multiple video I/O formats, allowing video application developers to quickly develop, debug, and prototype designs using their lab video signals and displays.

News from Altera Europe (24 March 2008)

FPGA family promises more for less

Low-power field-programmable gate arrays claim the industry's best power-, area-, logic- and feature-per-I/O ratios in a programmable device.

News from Actel Europe (18 March 2008)

FPGAs take care of XAUI communications

Package includes the reference design, XAUI protocol characterisation report for GTP transceivers, access to Xilinx LogiCore IP and a PCIe add-in card.

News from Xilinx (18 March 2008)

Programmable platform allows more integration

New devices host customer- or market-specific combinations of proven system blocks for storage, wired/wireless communication, video/imaging, security and other custom functions.

News from QuickLogic ( 4 March 2008)

Kit eases FPGA embedded processing

The Nios II evaluation kit allows developers to launch example applications, such as networking and audio and image processing, with the touch of a finger.

News from Altera Europe ( 4 March 2008)

Electronics survive life onboard vehicles

Using programmable logic solutions, automotive products can accommodate features that are changing faster than typical automotive design cycles and faster than ASSP products.

News from Altera Europe ( 3 March 2008)

Starter kit provides entry-level DSPs

At the heart of the Spartan-3A DSP FPGA architecture is the DSP48A slice, which enables designers to implement many independent arithmetic functions.

News from Xilinx ( 3 March 2008)

FPGA development eliminates processor obsolescence

Designers can use the new embedded kit to develop low-cost, Linux-based embedded systems driven by a Spartan-3A XCS3D1800A FPGA.

News from Xilinx (26 February 2008)

Low-cost FPGAs start under a buck

New Igloo AGL015 and ProASIC3 A3P015 FPGAs provide lower cost, lower power alternative to low-density FPGAs and CPLDs in consumer, medical, comms and industrial applications

News from Actel Europe (20 February 2008)

Rep deal brings Cswitch to Europe

Cswitch will be represented throughout Europe by Spectrum's pan-European rep/stockist operation, Silicon Design.

News from Spectrum Group ( 8 February 2008)

FPGA survives outer space conditions

MIL-STD 883 Class B qualification opens high-bandwidth processing applications in spacecraft payloads for the RTAX4000S FPGA.

News from Actel Europe (29 January 2008)

FPGAs support SFI-5 optical comms standard

The SFI-5 specification is a chip-to-chip standard that ensures interoperability between forward-error correction and the framer, as well as from industry-leading optical transponder devices.

News from Altera Europe (24 January 2008)

FPGA expansion targets networking niche

New devices will enable new levels of cost-optimisation for industrial networking, medical imaging, motor control, defence and high-performance computing applications.

News from Xilinx (22 January 2008)

DSP-optimised FPGAs available in volume

All three devices in the 65nm Virtex-5 SXT family are production-qualified and supported by the XtremeDSP portfolio of development tools and IP.

News from Xilinx (15 January 2008)

Low-cost FPGAs suit vehicle displays

The logiCraft3 compact multimedia display development platform takes advantage of the low-cost and small footprint of XA Spartan-3E FPGAs and the Xilinx 32bit MicroBlaze soft microprocessor.

News from Xilinx (11 January 2008)

Low-cost FPGAs secure custom designs

IP core leverages DeviceDNA design security to further streamline and strengthen safeguards against reverse engineering, cloning and unauthorised overbuilding.

News from Xilinx ( 9 January 2008)

Shrinking FPGAs increase consumer appeal

Small-form-factor FPGAs address industry demand for smaller footprint packages, enabling extremely cost-sensitive consumer electronics designs.

News from Xilinx ( 9 January 2008)

Low-cost FPGAs offer dense logic and memory

XA Spartan-3A FPGAs offer the highest number of I/O per logic cell with broad connectivity support, providing flexibility and scalability for I/O-intensive display and LED backlight applications.

News from Xilinx ( 8 January 2008)

Development kit speeds automotive design

Automotive designers can quickly evaluate devices and get their designs up and running right out of the box.

News from Xilinx ( 8 January 2008)

FPGAs cut both static and dynamic power

Flash-based FPGA family combines dramatically reduced power consumption with up to 350MHz operation.

News from Actel Europe ( 8 January 2008)

Programmable devices answer display challenge

Simultaneous display solution enables developers to implement a wide range of exciting handheld capabilities.

News from QuickLogic ( 3 January 2008)

Low-cost FPGA family available in production

Built on TSMC's 65nm low-power process, the Cyclone III family includes devices that are qualified for commercial, industrial and extended temperatures.

News from Altera Europe (24 December 2007)

Million-gate FPGA meets military specs

The QL1P1000 platform offers the reliability and capacity needed for the most demanding military applications, supporting the full mil-spec temperature range.

News from QuickLogic (24 December 2007)

FPGA-based image processing makes reversing safer

 User application article   Single-chip FPGA-based approach provides a more compact and reliable solution than DSP-based approaches, which typically require two or more devices.

News from Altera Europe (21 December 2007)

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