RSS News Feed for Altera Europe - from Electronicstalk http://www.electronicstalk.com/news/aeu/aeu000.html Altera Europe news releases on Electronicstalk en-gb Copyright (C)2008 Pro-Talk Ltd. All rights reserved. Wed, 23 Jul 2008 08:00:00 UT Wed, 23 Jul 2008 08:00:00 UT Pro-Talk Ltd http://www.pro-talk.com/images/protalklogo90.gif http://www.pro-talk.com/ 90 79 Handsets ease ticketing process MAX IIZ CPLDs manage several peripherals in the P1200 handsets, including an RFID reader, an infra-red data association (IRDA) sensor, a Bluetooth interface and LED control. Fri, 27 Jun 2008 08:00:00 UT Altera Europe http://www.electronicstalk.com/news/aeu/aeu272.html Software upgrade provides speed boost Customers using the 8.0 release to design Altera's 65nm Stratix III FPGAs on Windows platforms will see compile times reduced by up to 50%. Tue, 27 May 2008 08:00:00 UT Altera Europe http://www.electronicstalk.com/news/aeu/aeu271.html Shrink to 40nm increases FPGA capabilities The Stratix IV family has up to 680K logic elements, 2x bigger than Altera's Stratix III family, which currently comprise currently the largest FPGAs on the market. Fri, 23 May 2008 08:00:00 UT Altera Europe http://www.electronicstalk.com/news/aeu/aeu270.html 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. Wed, 07 May 2008 08:00:00 UT Altera Europe http://www.electronicstalk.com/news/aeu/aeu269.html 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%. Tue, 08 Apr 2008 08:00:00 UT Altera Europe http://www.electronicstalk.com/news/aeu/aeu268.html 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. Wed, 26 Mar 2008 08:00:00 UT Altera Europe http://www.electronicstalk.com/news/aeu/aeu267.html 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. Mon, 24 Mar 2008 08:00:00 UT Altera Europe http://www.electronicstalk.com/news/aeu/aeu266.html 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. Tue, 04 Mar 2008 08:00:00 UT Altera Europe http://www.electronicstalk.com/news/aeu/aeu265.html 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. Mon, 03 Mar 2008 08:00:00 UT Altera Europe http://www.electronicstalk.com/news/aeu/aeu264.html 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. Thu, 24 Jan 2008 08:00:00 UT Altera Europe http://www.electronicstalk.com/news/aeu/aeu263.html 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. Mon, 24 Dec 2007 08:00:00 UT Altera Europe http://www.electronicstalk.com/news/aeu/aeu262.html FPGA-based image processing makes reversing safer Single-chip FPGA-based approach provides a more compact and reliable solution than DSP-based approaches, which typically require two or more devices. Fri, 21 Dec 2007 08:00:00 UT Altera Europe http://www.electronicstalk.com/news/aeu/aeu261.html 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. Thu, 13 Dec 2007 08:00:00 UT Altera Europe http://www.electronicstalk.com/news/aeu/aeu260.html 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. Tue, 11 Dec 2007 08:00:00 UT Altera Europe http://www.electronicstalk.com/news/aeu/aeu259.html 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. Thu, 15 Nov 2007 08:00:00 UT Altera Europe http://www.electronicstalk.com/news/aeu/aeu258.html FPGA suits demanding computing 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. Wed, 14 Nov 2007 08:00:00 UT Altera Europe http://www.electronicstalk.com/news/aeu/aeu257.html