Micrium Ports uC/OS-II, uC/OS-III, uC/TCP-IP to Actel SmartFusion FPGA
Micrium has ported their uC/OS-II and uC/OS-III kernels and uC/TCP-IP stack to Actel’s SmartFusion intelligent mixed-signal FPGA. Micrium’s uC/OS-II and uC/OS-III are fully featured kernels designed for embedded systems. SmartFusion combines three programmable elements: logic, a microcontroller subsystem, and analog. Actel’s FlashLock technology provides a high level of intellectual property security.
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Altera Stratix IV FPGA Devices Support 10-Gbps Interlaken Interface
Altera Stratix IV FPGAs passed the Interlaken Alliance’s device interoperability testing. Altera certified their FPGAs interface with third-party components using the Interlaken protocol. Stratix IV GT FPGAs passed interoperability testing at 6.25-Gbps line rates. According to Altera, their FPGA devices are the only Interlaken solution capable of supporting line rates of 10 Gbps. Device interoperability testing validates Stratix IV FPGAs for chip-to-chip Interlaken interface and ensures they can be quickly deployed as a turnkey solution for next-generation wireless and wireline infrastructure applications.
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Xilinx Spartan-6 FPGA Industrial Video Processing Kit
Xilinx announced the Spartan-6 FPGA Industrial Video Processing Kit. The Industrial Imaging Targeted Design Platform accelerates development of high-performance video processing applications for low-cost, low-power industrial imaging systems. Industrial equipment OEMs can now rapidly build and evaluate reprogrammable imaging solutions with high-definition image resolutions, specialized image sensor interfaces, and intelligent video and advanced image processing algorithms. The Spartan-6 FPGA Industrial Video Processing Kit is available for order from Avnet with shipments later this month. General availability with production-grade silicon is targeted for next month. The kit is priced at $2,695 (US).
Xilinx Spartan-6 FPGA Industrial Ethernet Kit
Xilinx announced the Spartan-6 FPGA Industrial Ethernet Kit. The Targeted Design Platform is optimized for industrial automation system design with low-cost, low-power Xilinx Spartan-6 field programmable gate arrays (FPGAs). The Xilinx Industrial Automation Targeted Design Platform accelerates development of real-time Ethernet networks. The Spartan-6 FPGA Industrial Ethernet Kit is available now from Avnet in limited quantities with general availability in April 2010. The kit is priced at $1,895 (US).
Automotive Pixel Link IP for Xilinx Automotive Spartan-6 FPGA Family
Xilinx and Inova Semiconductors announced an Automotive Pixel Link (APIX) IP solution for the Xilinx Automotive (XA) family of low-cost Spartan-6 field programmable gate arrays (FPGAs). The configurable core supports multiple high-bandwidth video and communications links in a single device to transfer high-quality, real-time video from two or more cameras or processing units to in-vehicle displays. The APIX core for XA Spartan-6 FPGAs is immediately available from Inova Semiconductors. APIX Transmitter and Receiver devices can be purchased separately.
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Altera TUV-Qualified Industrial Safety Data Package
Altera introduced an industrial safety data package for automation applications. Altera created a pre-qualified development tool chain, including safety manuals and safety intellectual property (IP) cores. The Altera solution will shorten development time and lower total system cost in safety-critical industrial applications, such as servo and inverter drives, safety devices, and automation controllers. Altera’s industrial safety data package will be available early in the second quarter of this year.
Xilinx Optimizes Spartan-6 FPGAs to Reduce System Cost
Xilinx has optimized the Xilinx Automotive (XA) family of Spartan-6 field programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) for applications requiring high-speed connectivity and high-resolution video performance. The automotive-qualified devices provide the flexibility, scalability, and integration needed to reduce the system cost of automotive infotainment, driver assistance, driver information, and in-vehicle networking products. Shipments of select XA Spartan-6 FPGAs will start in the second half of this year. All devices can be ordered in a variety densities and packaging options.
Actel SmartFusion Intelligent Mixed Signal FPGA Devices
Actel launched SmartFusion, which is industry first intelligent mixed signal FPGA. SmartFusion devices feature Actel’s ProASIC 3 FPGA architecture, a complete microcontroller subsystem built around a hard ARM Cortex-M3 processor, and programmable analog blocks on a flash process. SmartFusion devices are ideal for motor control, system and power management and industrial automation. SmartFusion A2F200 devices are now available in volume production. A2F500 devices are scheduled for delivery in Q2 2010 and A2F060 devices are expected at the second half of the year.
Actel SmartFusion Evaluation and Development Kits
Actel introduced development tools for the SmartFusion intelligent mixed signal FPGAs. The development environment includes the Libero Integrated Design Environment (IDE) v9.0 with Synplify Pro and Identify from Synopsys, ModelSim from Mentor Graphics, and SoftConsole v3.1, Keil and IAR Systems software IDEs, plus access to leading RTOS and middleware from Micrium. The SmartFusion Evaluation Kit is available now for $99. The SmartFusion Development Kit is available now for $999.
inrevium TB-6V-LX240T, LX365T, LX550T, SX475T-PCIEXP FPGA Platforms
Tokyo Electron Device (TED) introduced the inrevium TB-6V-LX240T, LX365T, LX550T, and SX475T-PCIEXP series FPGA evaluation platforms. The FPGA evaluation platform features either Virtex-6 LXT or Virtex-6 SXT FPGA devices, 8-lane PCI Express Gen 2 interface, and 2-channel 1066 Mbps DDR3 SDRAM SO-DIMM high-speed memory interfaces. The inrevium TB-6V-LX240T, LX365T, LX550T, and SX475T-PCIEXP series will be available in mid-March 2010. The inrevium TB-6V- LX240T, LX365T, LX550T, and SX475T-PCIEXP are ideal for the development of high-performance graphics engines for next-generation televisions and multi-function printers, or for the high-speed arithmetic processing found in high-performance computing applications.
inrevium TB-6V-LX240T, LX365T, LX550T, SX475T-PCIEXP FPGA Platforms »
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