April 24, 2012 Achronix Semiconductor has launched a family of 22nm high density FPGA devices to take on market leaders Xilinx and Altera. Read more

March 30, 2012 Xilinx announced the first shipments of its Virtex-7 X690T FPGA, combining what the company claims to be the industry's most reliable high-speed serial transceivers, highest system bandwidth, and market-optimized FPGA resources. Read more

March 14, 2012 MSC and eVision Systems are jointly organizing one-day seminars for easy entry into the FPGA design with VHDL using the example of MachXO2 devices from Lattice. Read more

March 1, 2012 Lattice Semiconductor Corporation has adopted the MIPI Battery Interface (BIF) standard within the iCE40 mobileFPGA family of products. As an industry-created and adopted standard, the MIPI BIF single-wire specification accelerates the design and use of smart batteries in mobile devices. Read more

February 27, 2012 In medical applications such as magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), ultrasound, CT scanners, and digital X-ray, high channel count analog-to-digital converters (ADCs) are used to sample large arrays of data. Serial interfaces are used to acquire the sampled data to reduce the number of pins on the ADC and FPGA. In addition, routing of a high speed serial interface saves board space. Read more

February 13, 2012 Cambridge design house, Plextek, has worked with Kelvin Hughes, a world leader in the design and supply of marine navigation systems, to develop an advanced FPGA based signal processing platform. Read more

January 31, 2012 Analog Devices, Inc. has introduced two data converter FMC boards (FPGA mezzanine cards) that connect to Xilinx Inc’s new 28 nm 7 series FPGA (field programmable gate array) evaluation kits. ADI’s high-speed AD9739A D/A converter and AD9467 A/D converter FMC boards support multiple generations of Xilinx kits - including the company’s new Kintex-7 FPGA evaluation kits Xilinx. Read more

January 30, 2012 CML Microcircuits has introduced the CMX7861 FirmCODEC which is a full featured analog front end for DSP/FPGA/Microcontroller based systems. The device is a combination of codec, embedded signal processing and auxiliary system support functions, allowing simple interfacing between analog and digital systems that together improve overall system performance, reduce development time and overall system cost. Read more

January 25, 2012 Lattice Semiconductor Corporation is adding low power, high speed, and mini package additions to the company’s LatticeECP3 FPGA family. The new value added devices are ideal for power and space limited applications in professional cameras, surveillance cameras, medical imaging, video communication, and small-form-factor wireline and wireless appliances. Read more

January 16, 2012 Vienna-based TTTech has joined the Xilinx Alliance Program to develop ARINC 664 and TTEthernet IP for the Xilinx Targeted Design Platforms. The company is a leading supplier of reliable embedded networking based on time-triggered technology and modular safety platforms and is is initially focussing on providing ARINC 664 compliant network controller IP for Xilinx FPGA devices, with certification artefacts according to DO-254 DAL A. The future plan is to extend the offering to TTEthernet IP. Read more

December 13, 2011 Lattice Semiconductor Corporation is releasing 1.4 of its Lattice Diamond design software, the design environment for Lattice FPGA products. Users of Lattice Diamond 1.4 software will benefit from several usability enhancements that make FPGA design exploration easier and reduce time to market. Read more

December 12, 2011 Lattice Semiconductor Corporation has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire SiliconBlue Technologies, a pioneer in Custom Mobile Device solutions for the consumer handheld market. Utilizing a single chip, ultra-low power Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) fabric, SiliconBlue's mobileFPGA devices enable mobile designers to quickly add features to their mobile platform in areas such as connectivity, memory / storage, sensor management, and video / imaging. Read more

November 23, 2011 Texas Instruments Incorporated has introduced a complete power management solution for TI’s C2000 real-time control, 32-bit microcontrollers (MCUs) and other DSP and FPGA processors. The TPS75005 highly integrated power circuit comes in a thermally enhanced 5-mm x 5-mm QFN package, combining two low-noise, 500-mA low-dropout linear regulators (LDOs) and three supply voltage supervisors to provide +/-5 percent power-rail accuracy for TI’s F2833x, F2823x, F281x, F2801x and F280x microcontroller series. Read more

November 18, 2011 Synopsys has updated its Identify and Certify FPGA-based prototyping tools to speed up the simulation and add incremental compilation. Read more

November 2, 2011 Semtech Corporation has used MathWorks's MATLAB and Simulink products to reduce development time of optimized digital receivers in wireless RF devices. Semtech adopted Model-Based Design tools to create FPGA prototypes 50% faster than before, reduce verification time from weeks to days and shorten development time by 33%. Read more

November 2, 2011 Aldec announced the immediate availability of Active-HDL version 9.1, an HDL-based FPGA design and simulation solution that supports the newest FPGA devices available from all leading FPGA vendors. The high-performance, mixed-language solution interfaces with nearly one hundred (100) third party vendor tools and provides FPGA designers a single platform that can be used independently of the targeted FPGA design flow. Read more

October 31, 2011 Lattice Semiconductor Corporation and Valens Semiconductor have developed a new and comprehensive HDBaseT camera reference design solution.  The HDBaseT reference design is targeted at the surveillance market.  Read more

October 27, 2011 Xilinx, Inc., is teaming up with Cadence Design Systems, Inc., to develop the industry’s first virtual platform to enable system design, software development, and testing of Xilinx Zynq-7000 Extensible Processing Platform (EPP) based systems in advance of hardware availability. The solution further enhances the development environment being put into place for Xilinx’s ARM processor-based processing platform and changes the development flow for embedded designers, enabling software content to drive hardware design. Read more

October 25, 2011 Xilinx has announced it is now shipping the Virtex-7 2000T, which uses a stacked silicon approach to create a device with 6.8 billion transistors. It shatters Altera’s previous title of producing the industry’s most integrated device; a title it claimed with the Stratix V, which integrates 3.9 billion transistors, although it may argue that it still holds that crown. Read more

October 19, 2011 Altera and Eutecus have announced what they believe is the world's first 1080p/30fps video analytics solution on an FPGA. Altera says the single-chip solution provides a new level of video analytics performance, combining exceptionally high throughput (60-Mpixel per second) with pixel precision detail not possible with traditional digital signal processing (DSP)-based approaches. Read more

September 20, 2011 Bolstering the ecosystem for next-generation 4 x 25 Gb/s based optical transceivers, Gennum Corporation and Altera Corporation have demonstrated interoperability of Gennum's 25 to 28 Gb/s PHY with Altera's 28 Gb/s enabled Stratix V GT FPGA at the European Conference and Exhibition on Optical Communication (ECOC). Read more

September 9, 2011 Xilinx will sample this fall an FPGA that packs two million logic cells thanks to use of an emerging stacked silicon interconnect. The chip shows progress in so-called 2.5-generation silicon interposer techniques, but Xilinx and others cautioned many challenges are still ahead for making full 3-D stacks using through silicon vias (TSVs). Read more

September 7, 2011 RF Engines Limited (RFEL) has set what the company believes to be an unprecedented performance benchmark for commercially available Pipeline Fast Fourier Transform (PFFT) cores on FPGA. The HyperSpeed Plus cores have been proven to process complex data streams in continuous real-time at data rates in excess of 52 Giga samples per second for a 2048 point FFT implemented on a Xilinx Virtex-6 FPGA device. Read more

August 24, 2011 Distributor Silica will host a series of SpeedWay Design Workshops featuring the low-cost Xilinx Spartan-6 FPGA LX9 MicroBoard in Europe including Germany, UK, Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Netherlands, Belgium, Spain, Switzerland and Italy. The European workshops are part of a global technical tour launched by Avnet Electronics Marketing, an operating group of Avnet. Read more

July 26, 2011 Triad Semiconductor Inc., whose via-configurable arrays offer programmable analog with a microcontroller, has announced the availability of its largest configurable array to date, the VCA-6, with more than one million ASIC gates. Read more

July 25, 2011 Microsemi Corporation's SmartFusion customizable system-on-chip (cSoC) devices are now supported by FreeRTOS, a scaleable real time kernel designed specifically for small embedded systems that can be used in any type of application. Read more

July 18, 2011 Lattice Semiconductor Corporation has release 1.3 of its Lattice Diamond design software, the flagship design environment for Lattice FPGA products. Users of Lattice Diamond 1.3 software will benefit from major new features, including clock jitter analysis. Lattice Diamond 1.3 software is also now integrated with Lattice's PAC-Designer 6.1 mixed signal design tools which provide design support for Lattice's programmable mixed signal Platform Manager devices. Read more

July 18, 2011 Lattice Semiconductor Corporation has released 6.1 of its PAC-Designer mixed signal design software, with updated support for Lattice's Platform Manager, Power Manager II and ispClock devices. Users designing with Platform Manager devices will now have access to the Lattice Diamond 1.3 software design environment. Read more

July 6, 2011 Lattice Semiconductor’s LatticeECP3 FPGA family is compliant with the PCI Express 2.0 specification at 2.5 Gbps. The LatticeECP3 FPGA and its PCI Express (PCIe) IP core passed PCI-SIG PCIe v2.0 compliance and interoperability testing for 1- and 4-lane configurations at a recent PCI-SIG workshop, ensuring that Lattice’s solution is interoperable with existing PCIe 2.0 supported systems. Read more

July 1, 2011 Consumer-focused programmable logic startup SiliconBlue Technologies Ltd., said it closed $18 million in series D venture capital funding from five separate funds. Read more

June 30, 2011 International Rectifier has introduced the GH Series of radiation hardened (RAD-Hard) DC-DC converters. The new 50 W devices are designed to maximize efficiency for onboard spacecraft applications requiring long mission life up to 15 years. Read more

June 3, 2011 National Instruments has expanded its NI FlexRIO product line with six new adapter modules featuring FPGA-based reconfigurable I/O to deliver enhanced functionality for general-purpose automated test and high-speed digital communication. The NI FlexRIO family combines NI LabVIEW FPGA technology with high-speed, user-configurable I/O on the PXI platform. Read more

June 2, 2011 EBV Elektronik has announced the Caribou board as a development and evaluation platform for industrial communications. It is based on an OMAP L138 / AM1808 ARM microprocessor from Texas Instruments, together with an Altera Cyclone III FPGA and analog interfaces from Texas Instruments. Read more

May 31, 2011 Lattice Semiconductor Corporation has signed a global distribution agreement with Digi-Key Corporation which authorizes Digi-Key to sell Lattice's complete portfolio of innovative low power, low cost FPGA, PLD and programmable power management design solutions. Read more

May 3, 2011 Lattice Semiconductor and Oregano Systems Design & Consulting announced the immediate availability of three comprehensive versions of the IEEE-1588 Timing Node System IP core for the LatticeECP3 and LatticeECP2M FPGA families. These SoC-class versions of the IP core are characterized by different levels of functionality and performance. Read more

May 2, 2011 Lattice Semiconductor Corporation has unveiled a 4 x 3.125Gbps version of the Serial RapidIO 2.1, Level 1 endpoint core utilizing the award winning LatticeECP3 FPGA family. The device is an extension of the SRIO v2.1 core that originally supported 1x and 2x up to 3.125 Gbps and 4x up to 2.5 Gbps. Read more

April 18, 2011 Lattice Semiconductor Corporation has unveiled release 1.2 of the company’s Lattice Diamond FPGA design software tool suite. Users of the new MachXO2 PLD devices can now generate complete systems based on the LatticeMico8 open source 8-bit controller core using the LatticeMico System tool, which is available with the Lattice Diamond design environment. Read more

April 18, 2011 Lattice Semiconductor has announced the immediate availability of its LatticeECP3 Versa Development Kit for a promotional price of $99. It anticipates the kit will allow mainstream customers to inexpensively evaluate the capabilities of its LatticeECP3 FPGAs, such as configurable SERDES, cascadable DSP slices and high-speed DDR3 memory controllers. Read more

April 14, 2011 Lattice Semiconductor and Arrow Electronics EMEA have a distribution agreement for Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA). Headquartered in Hillsboro, Oregon, USA, Lattice is a supplier of innovative low power, low cost FPGA, PLD and programmable power management design solutions. With development, manufacturing and sales offices worldwide, Lattice primarily addresses customers in communications, computing, consumer and industrial end markets. Read more

April 4, 2011 FPGA vendor Xilinx Inc., has acquired Omiino Ltd., a Belfast telecommunications startup for an undisclosed amount, according to local reports. Xilinx follows AppliedMicro and Altera as an acquirer of companies that developed optical transport IP and implemented it in FPGAs. Read more

March 30, 2011 Envisioning a world that matches bandwidth capacity with the imagination of application and content developers, Altera Corporation has announced plans for optically interconnected programmable devices. Read more

March 28, 2011 Lattice Semiconductor Corporation has partnered Helion Technology to provide a portfolio of Compression and Encryption IP cores for the LatticeECP3 FPGA family. The portfolio features a Payload Compression System core that enables improved utilization of constrained channel bandwidth, making it ideal for use in Microwave Backhaul applications, Broadband Wireless Access for 802.16e (WiMAX), and, potentially, other Multi-Link Multi-In Multi-Out (MIMO) applications. Read more

March 17, 2011 In collaboration with Altera’s University Program, Terasic Technologies has announced the release of Altera’s newest University Program FPGA development board, the DE0-Nano. Measuring just 49x75.2mm and weighing about 40 grams, the DE0-Nano board is well-suited to a wide range of portable design projects, such as robotics applications. Read more

March 15, 2011 Thruput Ltd has chosen Lattice Semiconductor's LatticeXP2 FPGAs for use in MIDAS, the first low-power, lossless real time video processing platform. Boasting an impressive eight dual-link inputs and driving up to three full resolution monitors, the Thruput MIDAS delivers over two billion pixels per second of silent processing power. Read more

March 2, 2011 Lattice Semiconductor Corporation has released the Lattice HDR-60 Video Camera Development Kit, a production-ready High Definition (HD) video camera development system based on the LatticeECP3 FPGA family. Read more

March 2, 2011 EDA and IP vendor Synopsys has introduced a new lithography rule check (LRC) tool for lithography verification. Read more

February 7, 2011 Lattice Semiconductor Corporation has unveiled five new comprehensive Intellectual Property (IP) Suites to accelerate the design of electronic systems in a variety of industries using the LatticeECP3 FPGA family. The five IP suites are PCI Express, Ethernet Networking, Digital Signal Processing, Video & Display, and Value. Read more

February 3, 2011 Ivo Bolsens, chief technology officer of field programmable gate array vendor Xilinx Inc., sees a future where FPGAs are a fundamental part of the system-on-chip, either merged monolithically with software programmable microprocessor cores or making use of multi-die configurations in three dimensional system-in-packages. Read more

December 13, 2010 Microsemi Corporation has adopted Sibridge Technologies' Verification Intellectual Property (VIP) to reduce time to market for its innovative FPGA and customizable SoC products. Sibridge Technologies is a provider of innovative ASIC/FPGA, design and verification IPs and embedded systems solutions. Read more

November 29, 2010 Lattice Semiconductor Corporation has added the HiGig MAC IP core to low cost LatticeECP3 FPGA family. Multiple individual devices interconnected via the HiGig protocol operate as one logical network, seamlessly providing features like quality of service (QoS), mirroring and link aggregation. Read more

November 23, 2010 Analog IC design house, ICsense, and digital ASIC and FPGA design design house, Easics, are entering into partnership agreement which will pool their expertise to offer their customers high-quality, best-of-class mixed-signal ASIC applications. Read more

November 8, 2010 Lattice Semiconductor Corporation has released Version 1.1 of the company’s Lattice Diamond FPGA design software, the flagship design environment for Lattice FPGA products. The update includes support for the new MachXO2 PLD family, completion of support for the LatticeECP3 FPGA family, and the initial release of Lattice’s own synthesis engine with support for the MachXO and MachXO2 product families. Read more

November 2, 2010 Lattice Semiconductor Corporation is announcing the immediate availability of the PCI Express Root Complex (RC) Lite solution based on the LatticeECP3 and LatticeECP2M FPGA families for use in simple bridging application to any legacy host bus. Using a low cost programmable FPGA platform, designers can implement the specific bridge function that matches the interface available on their particular host CPU. Read more

October 6, 2010 The CPS-1848 Serial RapidIO Gen2 switch, developed by Integrated Device Technology, Inc., is aiming to provide the foundation for an evolving Serial RapidIO ecosystem and is being rapidly adopted by several vendors, including CommAgility and N.A.T. Read more

October 4, 2010 The analog and mixed-signal chip maker has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Actel Corp. for $20.88 per share through a cash tender offer. The total transaction value is approximately $430 million, net of Actel's projected cash balance at closing. Read more

September 21, 2010 Actel Corporation has unveiled new SmartFusion intelligent mixed signal FPGA reference designs targeting motor control applications. Read more

September 20, 2010 Lattice Semiconductor Corporation has introduced the company's full rate SPI-4.2 solution based on a low cost, low power FPGA fabric.  Read more

September 17, 2010 Actel is releasing the A2F500 Development Kit to take advantage of the highest density member of the company's SmartFusion intelligent mixed signal FPGA family. Read more

August 10, 2010 Analog Devices, Inc., has introduced a high-performance development platform for wireless infrastructure equipment designers who need to quickly evaluate systems using DPD (digital pre-distortion) techniques in multi-carrier cellular base stations.  Read more

July 27, 2010 Analog Devices, Inc. has collaborated with industry leading programmable-logic vendor Xilinx Inc. to introduce a radio architecture development platform that helps multi-carrier cellular base station manufacturers reduce engineering resources and improve time to market. Read more

July 13, 2010 Altera Corporation has enhanced its Arria II GX FPGA variant with 6.375-Gbps transceivers and up to 1.25-Gbps LVDS support, while broadening the reach of the family with the addition of the new Arria II GZ FPGA variant. As a result, the 40-nm Arria II family provides the lowest power 6-Gbps transceiver solutions shipping today, featuring up to 50 percent lower static power over competitive devices. Read more

July 6, 2010 Lattice Semiconductor and Helion GmbH have released Intellectual Property (IP) cores for the video security and surveillance camera market. Targeting the LatticeXP2, LatticeECP2M and LatticeECP3 FPGA families, Helion has demonstrated its IONOS video pipeline IP and Vesta evaluation platform. Read more

June 29, 2010 Lattice Semiconductor Corporation has partnered with Affarii Technologies to successfully demonstrate the industry’s lowest cost, low power Remote Radio Head (RRH) solution at 1300 mW per antenna. Read more

June 17, 2010 Intersil has developed a compact, high-performance point-of-load power solution for the Spartan-6 FPGA SP623 and Virtex-6 FPGA ML623 evaluation kits from industry-leader Xilinx Corporation. Read more

June 7, 2010 Lattice Semiconductor Corporation has unveiled a new versatile LatticeXP2 Brevia Development Kit and 28 new silicon-proven reference designs, which are ideal for developing high volume, cost sensitive, high density applications. Read more

May 20, 2010 NXP Semiconductors is developing two boards designed to demonstrate the interoperability of its CGV JESD204A-compliant high speed data converter family with Lattice Semiconductor's ECP3 FPGA family. Read more

May 12, 2010 Lattice Semiconductor Corporation is planning to interoperate between Cavium Networks' OCTEON II CN63XX processors and the LatticeECP3 FPGA family via a Serial Rapid IO (SRIO) Specification 2.1 link.  Read more

April 22, 2010 Synopsys is making enhanced FPGA synthesis support available for Actel Corporation's new SmartFusion intelligent mixed signal FPGAs. Read more

April 19, 2010 Keil is now supporting the Actel Corporation’s SmartFusion intelligent mixed signal FPGA family in the Keil MDK-ARM Microcontroller Development Kit. Read more

April 9, 2010 FPGA vendor Actel launched live technical support services to customers worldwide 24 hours a day, 5 days a week. In order to better serve its growing global customer base, the company has expanded its technical support service through its Mountain View, CA and Hyderabad, India centres. Read more

April 6, 2010 Lattice Semiconductor Corporation has introduced Service Pack 1 for Version 8.0 of its ispLEVER FPGA design tool suite. Read more

March 24, 2010 IAR Systems is to support Actel's SmartFusion devices that integrate an FPGA, ARM Cortex-M3-based microcontroller subsystem and programmable analog on a single chip. Read more

March 17, 2010 MSC Vertriebs GmbH has introduce a high-speed 10-bit 3 Gsps demultiplexer (DMUX) featuring LVDS compatible differential data and clock inputs for easy interface into digital signal processor (DSP) or industry standard field programmable gate arrays (FPGA). Read more

March 9, 2010 MSC Vertriebs GmbH is offering a configurable advanced touch-screen LCD video evaluation platform for Lattice FPGA families Read more

March 8, 2010 Micrium has ported its uC/OS-II and uC/OS-III kernels and uC/TCP-IP stack to Actel's new SmartFusion intelligent mixed-signal FPGA. Read more

March 3, 2010 In this news analysis article EE Times Europe Analog's editor, Paul Buckley questions Maury Wood, senior director and product line manager, high speed converters, NXP Semiconductors, to learn more about how he sees the JESD204A interoperability declaration is going to impact future product development. Read more

March 2, 2010 Actel Corporation has released an easy-to-use development environment for the newly introduced SmartFusion intelligent mixed signal FPGAs. Read more