High-performance digital downconverters for FPGAs 1 August 2001 Digital downconverters (DDC) are a key component for digital radio. The DDC performs the critical frequency translation needed to recover the information from a digitised modulated signal. Typically, ...
Portable digital assistant leverages hot-swappable features of FPGA 1 August 2001, ASIC Design Services Actel has announced that MARGI Systems has selected Actel's A54SX08A field-programmable gate array (FPGA) device for the new Springboard module, the hardware module in its new 'Presenter-to-Go' product. ...
Power analysis software for high-level programmable logic 18 July 2001 Xilinx has released XPower, power and thermal analysis software for programmable logic design. It now supports input from Model Technology's ModelSim HDL simulation and supports the Xilinx Virtex-II advanced ...
New chip-scale packages for eX FPGA family 4 July 2001, ASIC Design Services Underscoring its commitment to leading-edge assembly technology, programmable logic solutions provider Actel, now has available new chip-scale packages for its eX family of field-programmable gate arrays. ...
Programmable SoC for low-power portable applications 4 July 2001 Atmel's new field programmable system Level IC (FPSLIC), the AT94K10, provides system-level integration of microcontroller, programmable logic, control, memory and I/O functions, while consuming less ...
Worldwide design contest for Ramtron Nonvolatile Logic family 4 July 2001, MB Silicon Systems Following the introduction of its new Nonvolatile Logic family, Ramtron has announced a worldwide 'Nonvolatile Logic Contest'.
Contestants are asked to design an application around Ramtron's innovative ...
High performance single-FPGA turbo code solution 4 July 2001 Xilinx has expanded its XtremeDSP initiative by announcing the availability of turbo convolutional encoder and decoder LogiCORE IP products for its Virtex and Virtex-II FPGA families.
Designers can ...
The perfect platform for smarter FPGAs 4 July 2001 Xilinx's Virtex-II family is the first embodiment of the company's innovative platform FPGA strategy. Virtex-II offers designers a programmable platform that addresses the challenges of signal integrity, ...
Partnership to deliver embedded test solution for EPGA IP scores 4 July 2001, ASIC Design Services Actel and LogicVision have announced a joint partnership effort in the area of embedded IP test. The companies said they will work together to offer a complete embedded self-test solution to users of ...
Programmable ASSP provides enhanced flexibility for high-speed designs 4 July 2001 Altera offers a new level of system integration with its Mercury device family. Said to be the world's first programmable ASSP, Mercury devices combine the high-speed I/O capabilities of an advanced clock ...
Rijndael IP cores to accelerate innovative advanced encryption 4 July 2001 Altera is offering two new intellectual property cores that for the first time implement the Rijndael encryption standard on programmable logic to support the advanced encryption standard (AES) algorithm ...
Embedded processor solutions 4 July 2001 Combining logic, memory, and a processor core, Altera's Excalibur embedded processor solutions allow engineers to integrate an entire system on a single programmable logic device (PLD). Consisting of ...
Fastest FPGA soft processor revealed 23 May 2001 Xilinx has launched its new MicroBlaze processor, which it claims is the world's fastest 32 bit soft processor core developed by an FPGA vendor. Launched at the Embedded Systems Conference, San Franscisco, ...
Industry's largest single-chip FPGA solutions 23 May 2001 Actel's A500K180 and A500K270 flash-based ProASIC 500K field programmable gate array (FPGA) devices, at 369 000 and 473 000 system gates, respectively, represent the highest density, nonvolatile, single-chip, ...
Nonvolatile logic family for important control functions 23 May 2001, MB Silicon Systems Ramtron has introduced what it claims is the industry's first nonvolatile logic family. Ramtron's enabling FRAM technology allows logic states to be stored and retained automatically, transparently and ...
Flash-based ProASIC FPGAs qualified to industrial specs 9 May 2001, ASIC Design Services Actel is shipping the industry's first flash-based, 'live-at-power-up', field program- mable gate array (FPGA) devices qualified to industrial specifications. The ProASIC A500K050 and A500K130 industrial ...
IP cores enable faster time-to-market and product longevity for ASICs and ASSPs 28 March 2001, ASIC Design Services Actel's new VariCore embedded programmable gate array (EPGA) star IP cores for ASIC and application-specific standard product (ASSP) systems on a chip (SoCs) have application whenever time-to-market and ...
First 0,18 µm embeddable, reprogrammable cores for IP program 14 March 2001, ASIC Design Services Actel has announced it is joining UMC's Gold IP program with its VariCore embedded programmable gate array (EPGA) star IP cores. Simultaneously, Actel said it has taped out a VariCore EPGA IP test chip ...
Industry first FPGA has unique hardened latches for aerospace uses 14 March 2001, ASIC Design Services Actel is offering the first member of its radiation-tolerant RTSX-S family, the RT54SX32S. The RTSX-S family ranges in density from 32 000 to 72 000 typical gates and offers system performance in excess ...
Platform FPGA - the future of logic design 14 February 2001 Xilinx has entered a number of strategic partnerships and has acquired key technologies for creating the new programmable logic platform
