Actel has released to market a new intellectual property (IP) core designed to reduce development time and improve the performance of aircraft communications systems. The new Actel Core429 is a bus interface ...
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The 8051 is an extremely popular 8-bit architecture and designers of embedded systems have long sought the flexibility of reconfigurable and programmable peripherals. To address this need, Actel developed ...
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This article describes the Power-Save feature of Exar's single channel XR16L580 (L580) UART and the two channel XR16L2551 (L2551) and XR16L2751 (L2751) UARTs. Collectively, we shall refer to these three ...
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Halo's new SIP Tele-Pro series of high density T1/E1 modules have been designed to provide the network engineer a complete UL/EN60950 recognised solution that meets the requirements of GR1089 for lightning ...
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Today's FPGA designs are becoming larger and more complex, with hundreds of macros, intellectual properties, and re-usable parts of legacy designs. FPGA designers now face the huge challenge of rapidly ...
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As system designs begin to use components at the 130 and 90 nm process nodes, power consumption has once again hit the headlines. At 130 nm geometries, static power (caused by current leakage) has become ...
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Actel has announced that its radiation-tolerant RTSX-S family of field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) is now available from UMC's wafer foundry. The new family (RTSX-SU) provides customers with an alternate ...
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The PADS Router is an advanced, interactive trace editor that is available to printed circuit board (PCB) designers as part of the PADS product flow of electronic engineering software design tools. The ...
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Designing printed circuit boards in today's electronic industry presents unique challenges. To help manage all the complex requirements that make up circuit board design, EDA software must be both powerful ...
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Ref: z2717152m In the world of motor racing, speed is everything and not just on the track. In many classes, the electronic control unit (ECU) that controls the engine has become as critical a component ...
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Actel's flash-based FPGAs have been chosen by Hamilton Sundstrand, a division of United Technologies Corporation, for the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter (JSF) project. Actel's single-chip, reprogrammable ProASICPLUS ...
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Exar says that it can now offer the industry's first DS3/E3 LIU/Framer/JA combination device family. These devices follow Exar's successful single channel part, the XRT79L71 by adding multichannel integrated ...
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