RFSoC architecture by Xilinx
14 November 2018, Avnet South Africa, Telecoms, Datacoms, Wireless

Xilinx rolled out its Zynq UltraScale+ RFSoC family, an architecture integrating the RF signal chain into a system-on-chip (SoC) for high-performance RF applications. Based on the 16 nm UltraScale+ ...

Embedded deep learning framework for FPGAs
18 April 2018, ASIC Design Services, This Week's Editor's Pick

ASIC Design Services has developed a scalable and flexible embedded deep learning solution that allows for the implementation of a wide range of convolutional neural networks on FPGAs.

Xilinx SoCs get RF-class analog
19 April 2017, Avnet South Africa

Xilinx is claiming a disruptive integration and architectural breakthrough for 5G wireless with the infusion of RF-class analog technology into its 16 nm All Programmable MPSoCs. The company says its ...

Microsemi unveils PolarFire FPGA
22 March 2017, ASIC Design Services

Microsemi unveiled the new cost-optimised PolarFire field programmable gate array (FPGA) product family, delivering what the firm claims is the industry’s lowest power at mid-range densities with 12,7 ...

ISP Flash configuration for ARM-based FPGAs
9 November 2016, ASIC Design Services

XJTAG has extended the capability of its high-speed in-system programming (ISP) technology, XJFlash. The solution effectively brings the benefits of XJFlash to memory devices connected to the processor ...

Lattice boosts performance of iCE40 FPGAs
9 November 2016, Future Electronics

Lattice Semiconductor has expanded its iCE40 Ultra range of FPGAs to include the iCE40 UltraPlus family. The new devices deliver eight times more memory (1,1 Mbit RAM), twice the digital signal processors ...

Microsemi FPGAs support RISC-V IP core
9 November 2016, ASIC Design Services

Microsemi has become the first field programmable gate array (FPGA) provider to offer a comprehensive software tool chain and intellectual property (IP) core for RISC-V designs. RISC-V is a new instruction ...

Streamlined dual-core Zynqs from Xilinx
10 August 2016, Avnet South Africa

Xilinx has added streamlined dual-core members to the Zynq UltraScale+ MPSoC family of devices. The new dual-core ‘CG’ family members expand the portfolio’s scalability to include dual application and ...

Lattice expands MachXO3 FPGA family
18 May 2016, Future Electronics

Lattice Semiconductor announced the expansion of its award-winning MachXO3 family of FPGAs with the addition of the MachXO3L-9400 and MachXO3LF-9400 devices available in multiple packages. Built in ...

I/O-intensive FPGAs
27 January 2016, Avnet South Africa

Targeted specifically at cost-sensitive, I/O intensive designs, Xilinx has released the Spartan-7 family of field programmable gate arrays (FPGAs). It will address connectivity requirements across a breadth ...

Stratix 10 FPGAs and SoCs
25 November 2015, EBV Electrolink

Altera lifted the veil on Stratix 10 FPGAs and SoCs, its next generation of high-end programmable logic devices. Leveraging the company’s HyperFlex fabric architecture built on the Intel 14 nm Tri-Gate ...

Tiny low-power FPGAs
25 November 2015, Future Electronics

For feature-rich consumer mobile and industrial handheld devices, Lattice Semiconductor rolled out the iCE40 UltraLite FPGA family. The highly integrated devices deliver a flexible logic architecture, ...