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, ...

SoCs offer high-performance motor control
2 September 2015, ASIC Design Services

Today engineers are faced with numerous challenges at the moment of deciding which type of technology to apply for a specific task, especially when faced with misleading information about other solutions ...

Xilinx software update gives designers more options
22 July 2015, Avnet South Africa, Design Automation

Xilinx is touting acceleration of system verification with the release of Vivado Design Suite 2015.1, featuring major productivity advances for the development and deployment of its ‘All Programmable’ ...

New design software for Altera FPGAs and SoCs
1 July 2015, EBV Electrolink, Design Automation

Altera unveiled its Spectra-Q engine, a new technology at the heart of the company’s proven Quartus II software, to improve design productivity and time-to-market for next-generation programmable devices. It ...

Highest-capacity FPGA now shipping
10 June 2015, Avnet South Africa

Xilinx has delivered the industry’s first 4M logic cell device which offers >50M equivalent ASIC gates. First shipments of the Virtex UltraScale VU440 FPGA are ideal for next-generation ASIC and complex ...

FPGAs packing Flash memory
10 June 2015, Future Electronics

The newest member of Lattice Semiconductor’s MachXO3 FPGA range – MachXO3LF – provides essential bridging and I/O expansion functions to meet the increasing connectivity requirements of communications, ...

Xilinx scales up UltraScale architecture
18 March 2015, Avnet South Africa

Xilinx announced its 16 nm UltraScale+ family of FPGAs, 3D ICs and MPSoCs, combining new memory, 3D-on-3D and multiprocessing SoC(MPSoC) technologies. The introduction is complemented by a new interconnect ...

Radiation hardened ASICs
25 February 2015, Altron Arrow

Atmel announced a new radiation-hardened mixed-signal ASIC platform for high-performance space applications. Manufactured on a 150 nm silicon-on-insulator (SOI) process, the ATMX150RHA delivers up to ...

Radiation hardened ASICs
4 February 2015, Altron Arrow

Atmel announced a new radiation-hardened mixed-signal ASIC platform for high-performance space applications. Manufactured on a 150 nm silicon-on-insulator (SOI) process, the ATMX150RHA delivers up to ...

Microsemi FPGAs get new anti-cloning tech
4 February 2015, ASIC Design Services

Microsemi bolstered the cyber security capabilities of its flagship FPGAs - SmartFusion2 and IGLOO2 - with Physically Unclonable Function (PUF) technology licensed from Intrinsic-ID. With this hardened ...