John Johnson considers the use of FPGAs to tackle the design challenges of smart metering systems Legacy power infrastructure is intrinsically inefficient, aging and the operation of it is often harmful to the environment. ...
Tags: FPGAs, Smart Grid, Consumer Electronics
Renesas Electronics has announced the availability of a new member of the R-Car Series of automotive system-on-chip (SoC) multimedia processors. The multicore SoC is one of the first commercial chips to implement ARM's big.LITTLE ...
Avago Technologies, Finisar Corp, Fujitsu Optical Components Ltd, Oclaro Inc and Sumitomo Electric Industries Ltd have announced the completion of CFP2 specifications defining the electrical and physical requirements for 40Gbps and 100Gbps ...
Altera has said its 28nm Cyclone V GT FPGA product has completed compliance testing with the PCI Express (PCIe) 2.0 specification. This means the Cyclone V GT FPGA supports PCIe 2.0 data rates of 5Gbit/s. "The Cyclone V GT FPGA ...
Tags: Electrical, Electronics
Executives from both firms have discussed the issue in the past year but no agreement has been reached. Apple is reportedly in talks with Intel to manufacture mobile chips. The firm currently sources its chips from it's rival Samsung. ...
Intel has released its own Apache Hadoop distribution as the firm looks to extend its reach in the big data market. Apache Hadoop is an open source framework that specialises in running data applications on large hardware clusters. ...
Tags: Intel, Apache Hadoop, data market
Increases Intel's ability to deliver silicon convergence, integrate hardware and software programmability US based programmable logic application provider Altera has signed a deal with Intel to manufacture field-programmable gate array ...
Tags: Intel, silicon convergence, integrate hardware, software programmability
Altera has joined Tabula and Achronix as an FPGA foundry customer of Intel. According to Altera, Intel has agreed that Altera will be the only 'major' FPGA customer of Intel which rules out Lattice and Xilinx becoming Intel foundry ...
Altera has teamed up with Flexibilis of Finland to make it easy to implement an FPGA-based Ethernet switch. Combining Altera FPGAs with the Flexibilis Redundant Switch (FRS) IP provides ‘an easy and cost-effective way to implement ...
Tags: Altera, FPGA-based Ethernet switch, Cyclone
Altera has introduced an FPGA-based reference design for smart grid substation automation equipment. Developed jointly with wireless networks firm Flexibilis Oy, the IEC 62439-3-compliant reference design includes Flexibilis Redundant ...
Tags: Altera, FPGA-based reference design, smart grid substation automation
The Global Semiconductor Alliance (GSA) has appointed three new members to its Board of Directors. They are David Baillie, chief executive officer, CamSemi, Jeff Waters, senior vice president and general manager, Altera and Dr. Albert ...
Tags: Global Semiconductor Alliance, Board of Directors, semiconductor
Altera has signed a global distribution deal with Mouser Electronics. This is a signficant deal for Mouser because it covers Altera's intellectual property cores as well as FPGAs, CPLDs and development tools. Mouser is building its ...
Tags: Altera, Mouser Electronics, design market
Hybrid Memory Cube (HMC) technology is poised to take a bow in the high-performance computing space as a potential answer to the problem of one of the main bottlenecks in computing - the poor relative-performance of memory. After that, the ...
Tags: Hybrid Memory Cube, computing space, mainstream computing
Debugging toolkit should ship early next year, companies say Altera and ARM have jointly developed an embedded software development toolkit which will remove debugging barriers for SoC FPGA Devices. Dubbed the ARM Development Studio 5 ...
Tags: Altera, FPGA Devices, ARM
Mobile and media consumption device markets contributed for the hybridisation trend Hybrid processors that include two or more different types of cores make up half of the $111bn processor market revenue, according to a new report by IMS ...
Tags: mobile and media consumption device, hybrid processors