Full-featured EPROM and flash memory emulators 22 May 2002, Sivan Electronic Supplies Ceibo's multiROM Series ROM emulators are advanced debugging tools for embedded systems. The multiROM Series ROM emulators are full-featured EPROM and flash memory emulators - ie EPROM or flash memory ...
FPGAs specifically designed for radiation-intensive applications 22 May 2002, ASIC Design Services Actel has announced qualification and availability of its single-chip, 'live-at-power-up' 72 000-gate RT54SX72S antifuse field-programmable gate array (FPGA). Actel also announced that the Defense Supply ...
Cadence supports ProASICPlus FPGAs 8 May 2002, ASIC Design Services Actel has announced that the Cadence NC family of simulators and BuildGates synthesis tool now fully supports Actel's ProASICPLUS family of flash-based FPGAs. For simulation of ProASICPLUS designs, the ...
Magitron LED screens leverage high-performance, low-power FPGAs 24 April 2002, ASIC Design Services NetVision, a supplier of products and services for giant light-emitting diode (LED) screens, has chosen Actel's A54SX72A antifuse field-programmable gate array (FPGA) device for its new Magitron range ...
Portable programmer for in-system programmability 10 April 2002, ASIC Design Services Actel and First Silicon Solutions (FS2) are offering the Flash Pro programmer, which provides in-system programmability (ISP) for Actel's flash-based ProASIC FPGA families, including its new ProASICPLUS ...
Million gate flash FPGA breaks density barrier 27 March 2002, ASIC Design Services Based on a 0,22 µm process, Actel's new single-chip, in-system programmable ProASICPLUS FPGA family will consist of six devices ranging in density from 150 000 to 1-million system gates. The devices are ...
Design security in nonvolatile and antifuse FPGAs 13 March 2002, ASIC Design Services Higher mask cost and increasing minimum lot sizes, two economic trends of the semiconductor industry, are making FPGAs increasingly more cost-effective compared to the competing ASIC solutions. As a result, ...
Using external SRAM memory with Actel SX/SX-A FPGAs 13 February 2002, ASIC Design Services Today's system designs are growing in complexity, requiring larger amounts of memory for high-performance buffers and other local data storage. System designs that require both logic gates and memory ...
FPGA vendors go for the hard cell 21 November 2001, ASIC Design Services Looking to the wider horizon, the signs are that gate arrays will continue to diminish as a viable option for many designs, with many of those that would have taken this approach in the past now migrating to standard cells, at the higher density end of things, while FPGAs continue to eat away at the lower density gate array business
ASICs from FPGA prototypes in five weeks 21 November 2001, MB Silicon Systems Clear Logic has announced availability of production quantities of the first member of its Liberator ASIC family. According to the company, the 50 000 gate Liberator CL10K50V is the world's first device ...
Embeddable, reprogrammable IP cores available on Chartered 0,18 µm process 24 October 2001, ASIC Design Services Actel has announced the availability of its SRAM-based VariCore embedded programmable gate array (EPGA) intellectual property (IP) cores on the 0,18 µm process from Chartered Semiconductor Manufacturing. ...
Bridgeable POS-PHY solutions from 155 Mbps to 10 Gbps 10 October 2001 Altera has announced the availability of the POS-PHY Level 4 MegaCore logic function with Altera's Atlantic on-chip interface. Optimised for Altera's APEX II devices, the POS-PHY Level 4 interface is ...
Industry's largest single-chip flash-based FPGAs qualified to industrial specs 10 October 2001, ASIC Design Services Actel has announced it is shipping the industry's largest flash-based, 'live-at-power-up', field-programmable gate array (FPGA) devices qualified to industrial specifications. The ProASIC A500K180 and ...
Partnership to provide conversion path from ProAsic FPGAs to standard cell ASICs 10 October 2001, ASIC Design Services Actel and Faraday Technology, a leading turnkey ASIC service provider, have said they will provide a low-risk, cost-effective conversion path from current and future generations of Actel's single-chip, ...
Next-generation integrated design environment for FPGAs 12 September 2001, ASIC Design Services Actel has introduced Libero, its next-generation integrated design environment for FPGA development and design. A comprehensive design management environment, Libero integrates industry-leading design ...
Interface provides 'network glue' in reference platform 29 August 2001 Altera has announced that Clearwater Networks has successfully implemented its Atlantic interface, integrating various networking functions within its quad-gigabit ethernet hardware reference platform. ...
Space-qualified FPGAs with unique hardened latches 15 August 2001, ASIC Design Services Actel has announced qualification and shipment of the RT54SX32S field-programmable gate array (FPGA), the first member of the company's radiation-tolerant RTSX-S family specifically architected to address ...
Socket-compatible replacements for Altera MAX 7256A 15 August 2001, MB Silicon Systems Clear Logic has introduced a new member of its CL7000A family of 3,3-V Link Processed Logic Devices (LPLDs). The CL7256A is 100% socket-compatible with Altera's MAX 7256A PLD, but has a 45% smaller die, ...
FPGA design technique - maintaining phase relationships 1 August 2001, ASIC Design Services Chip designers often find themselves in a situation where the board layout has been completed before the chip is designed. The FPGA they are targeting must satisfy an external input phase relationship ...
