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Cool kit evaluates frugal FPGAs

Kit showcases the ultra-low-power attributes, flexible implementation options and battery-saving advantages of Igloo FPGAs for portable applications.

News from Actel Europe (19 December 2007)

Low-cost serdes FPGAs available in volume

The LatticeECP2M devices are the industry's first low cost FPGAs to offer high-speed embedded serdes I/O, plus a pre-engineered physical coding sublayer block.

News from Lattice Semiconductor UK (18 December 2007)

FPGAs race to DDR3 interface speeds

Higher memory bandwidth enables new communications, computing and video processing applications that were either previously impossible or required doubling the number of memory banks.

News from Altera Europe (13 December 2007)

Complex PLDs cut power and package size

MAX IIZ devices deliver the many benefits of CPLDs - including flexibility, faster time to market and board-level integration - to handsets and other portable applications.

News from Altera Europe (11 December 2007)

FPGAs take control of LCD panels

Options appeal to designers of power-sensitive portable and handheld consumer, industrial, medical, automotive and military devices that use small- to medium-size LCDs.

News from Actel Europe (11 December 2007)

Optical interfaces boast top bandwidth

FPGA-based designs accelerate the design cycle of wired networking systems that require OC-192 (10Gbit/s), multiple OC-48 (2.5Gbit/s) or 10Gbit/s Ethernet interfaces.

News from Xilinx (10 December 2007)

Software defined silicon nears reality

Innovative multiprocessor approach to configurable semiconductor devices brings a new level of flexibility and low cost to a broad range of consumer applications.

News from XMOS Semiconductors (29 November 2007)

Evaluation kit introduces mixed-signal arrays

Kit includes four different PSoC devices and gives designers an easy to use platform to try a multitude of designs.

News from Cypress Semiconductor (27 November 2007)

FPGA collaboration cuts costs and boosts power

The LonWorks communications protocol has been ported to Altera's Nios II embedded processor, which is implemented in a Cyclone FPGA.

News from Altera Europe (15 November 2007)

Licence supports accelerated computing

The ACP M1 licensing package is available to system integrators for developing solutions that accelerate the performance of Intel processor-based server platforms while minimising power consumption.

News from Xilinx (14 November 2007)

FPGA suits demanding computing

User application article The FP compiler enables a Stratix II FPGA to deliver in excess of 20 sustained double precision GFLOPS for fast Fourier transform (FFT) or matrix math applications.

News from Altera Europe (14 November 2007)

Low-power FPGAs shrink to 4mm square

New package offers designers four times the density, three times the I/O and a 36% reduction in size compared with competing programmable logic devices.

News from Actel Europe (14 November 2007)

Development kit suits low-cost FPGAs

The Arria GX Development Kit delivers a robust environment for the development and testing of designs implementing high-speed serial interfaces.

News from Altera Europe (30 October 2007)

Interface option eases mobile chipset integration

Addition of high speed SPI Host Controller to silicon-proven system block library extends range of alternatives for connecting to high-performance peripherals.

News from QuickLogic (30 October 2007)

Development board uses FPGAs

User application article The RapidFire development board hosts two Stratix II FPGAs, which offer designers a high-density solution rich in logic and RAM blocks.

News from Altera Europe (25 October 2007)

FPGA wins power consumption award

Actel Corporation announced that its 5 microwatt Igloo field-programmable gate array (FPGA) family has won a leading product award in the 2007 Portable Design China Reader Survey Awards.