Mouser Electronics has signed a distribution agreement with FPGA design tool firm and Altera partner, Terasic Technologies. Terasic is a member of the Altera Design Services Network (DSN) Programme. As well as tools Terasic Technologies ...
Paris-based FPGA partitioning software firm Flexras Technologies has released version 3.2 of its Wasga compiler design suite for FPGA-based prototyping. This new release supports the Xilinx Virtex-7 FPGA and includes new features that ...
Applied Micro Circuits is aiming to make its 64-bit chip for ARM servers more powerful and flexible through a collaboration with specialized chip maker Altera. Applied Micro on Monday said it would combine its 64-bit X-Gene chips with ...
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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. ...
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Isle-of-Wight-based RFEL had developed universal high-definition high-speed video processing hardware for defence and government security. "It is a black box that can take in a variety of analogue and digital video formats, process the ...
More than a quarter of the world's wafer capacity is for processes better than 40nm, says IC Insights. At the end of 2012, about 27% of global wafer capacity was for devices having geometries smaller than 40nm. Such devices include ...
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A "virtual lab" emulation environment can meet the challenges of complex SoC design verification, writes Richard Pugh of Mentor Graphics If you are verifying an SoC, you generally have three options when logic simulation runs out of steam ...
At the Optical Fiber Communication/National Fiber Optics Engineers Conference (OFC/NFOEC 2013) in Anaheim (19–21 March), California-based Reflex Photonics, which provides high-speed optical connectivity solutions for semiconductor ...
The fourth ElectroTest Expo is taking place on Tuesday 26th March at the Rose (Ageas) Bowl in Southampton. The exhibition and seminar sessions focus on PCB debug and test technologies and is organised by a group of test and measurement ...
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At the OFC/NFOEC 2013 show in Anaheim (19-21 March), optical components, modules and subsystems developer Oclaro Inc of San Jose, CA, USA is highlighting its 100G networking expertise with a live demonstration of its LR4 CFP2 transceiver in ...
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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 ...
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Texas Instruments and 4DSP, a developer of FPGA-based signal and image processing systems, are offering a new mezzanine card, the FMC667, for mission critical applications. 4DSP’s FMC667 mezzanine card includes TI’s ...
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Toshiba is offering Structured Arrays licensed from BaySand. They provide, says Toshiba ‘an ASIC alternative to FPGA with lower cost and power consumption - but still at significantly lower implementation and sample/production ...
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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 ...
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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 ...