Many companies who manufacture electronics require contingency plans for their products. If a memory device is discontinued, we switch to a competing device. If our circuit board supplier goes bankrupt, we have an alternate vendor on speed ...
atthias Feulner, European marketing manager, telecoms at Texas Instruments describes how the JESD204B standard can allow designers to simplify board routing & digital interface and synchronise multiple devices more easily. Modern ...
Tags: Texas Instruments, multiple device, atthias Feulner, telecom
Microsemi Corp of Aliso Viejo, CA, USA (which designs and makes high-reliability analog and RF devices, mixed-signal integrated circuits, FPGAs and customizable SoCs, and complete subsystems, based on silicon, gallium arsenide and silicon ...
Microsemi Corp of Aliso Viejo, CA, USA (which designs and makes analog and RF devices, mixed-signal integrated circuits, FPGAs and customizable SoCs, and subsystems) has expanded its family of radio-frequency transistors based on gallium ...
Tags: Microsemi, GaN on SiC, radio frequency transistors, HEMT
Taipei, Nov. 15, 2012 (CENS)-- Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. (TSMC) is reported to be the sole foundry of Xilinx’s 20nm chips, for which the chip vendor has recently announced its strategy, according to industry sources. ...
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Altera has signed a'huge'contract for TSMC's 20nm process,according to the Taiwan Economic News. Altera will be the first company to use the process which is scheduled for pilot production early next year and volume production in H2 2013. ...
Tags: Altera, TSMC, Taiwan, TSMC's 20nm process, CoWoS
Xilinx says it's shipping Artix 7 FPGAs which are an alternatives to Virtex chips but are smaller and lower cost for portable medical,had-held radio and small base-station manufacturers. With the first Artix-7 shipments to customers,that ...
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What you probably know about McLaren is that it makes Formula 1 cars.What you might not know,is that it designs and makes embedded processor systems. Every car in Formula 1,every US Indy car,and every US NASCAR,has an engine control ...
Tags: McLaren, embedded processoring, ECU, F1
Reports of 1,800 incidents of counterfeit parts being used in military aircraft has recently alarmed the US Senate committee and highlighted to the industry the seriousness of the problem of fake components. The US report suggested that ...
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As system complexity increases no longer is simple stimulus and response testing enough,test systems need to simulate the world around a device and testing it under realistic operating conditions and for this FPGA-based instruments come ...
Tags: microprocessor, FPGA, CPU
Do not get hung up on the need for high functionality ARM processor-based system-on-chip devices,there is still a lot of action in the low and mid-range of the market,writes Douglas Hunter corporate v-p marketing at Lattice Semiconductor ...
Tags: SoCs, FPGAs, Douglas Hunter, Lattice Semiconductor, SOIC, LED
In considering the design option for DSP vs.FPGA it is helpful to compare both architectures in a FIR filter application,writes Reg Zatrepalek One of the most widely used digital signal-processing elements is the finite impulse response,or ...
Tags: DSP, FPGA, design option, filter