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Actel to Demonstrate at Electronica 2008

Posted by Ken Cheung in Event on Tuesday, November 4, 2008

At Electronica 2008, Actel Corporation (Nasdaq: ACTL) will demonstrate miniature motor control and human machine interface functionality using its cell-phone-sized Actel Icicle Kit, which leverages the company's ultra-low power IGLOO FPGAs.
Visitors to the booth (A4.375) will also see the company's mixed-signal Fusion FPGAs operating in a MicroTCA chassis. Also demonstrated will be the FPGA-optimized ARM [...]

Meridian FPGA Verification Software

Posted by Ken Cheung in Tool on Tuesday, November 4, 2008

Meridian FPGA verification software, from Real Intent Inc., is specifically designed to work with Altera's Quartus II software, version 8.1, to verify Clock Domain Crossings (CDC). It offers a cost-effective alternative when compared to the cost of equivalent ASIC design software. The FPGA version of Meridian is shipping now and priced at $15,000.00 (USD).
Meridian FPGA [...]

Altera Quartus II Version 8.1

Posted by Ken Cheung in Tool on Monday, November 3, 2008

Altera Corporation (NASDAQ:ALTR) announced version 8.1 of its Quartus® II software. The new release of Quartus II software continues to deliver high-density FPGA compile times three times faster than other FPGA-vendor supplied development software, based on internal benchmarks. The enhanced productivity features within Quartus II software enable design teams to close timing and power faster, [...]

Creating FPGA-based Co-Processors for DSPs Using Model Based Design

Posted by Ken Cheung in Event on Friday, October 31, 2008

Avnet Electronics Marketing is offering a 2-day Co-Processing SpeedWay Design Workshop, titled "Creating FPGA-based Co-Processors for DSPs Using Model-Based Design." Engineers from Avnet and The MathWorks will present the 2-day, hands-on workshop, which features Model-Based Design using MATLAB and Simulink from The MathWorks to accelerate real-time image processing. Participants will explore video motion estimation algorithms [...]

Avnet Spartan-3A DSP DaVinci Development Kit

Posted by Ken Cheung in Tool on Thursday, October 30, 2008

The Avnet Spartan-3A DSP FPGA / DaVinci Development Platform provides a complete engineering platform for evaluating and integrating the Xilinx Spartan 3A-DSP FPGA and TI digital media processor based on DaVinci[tm] technology. The Avnet Spartan®-3A DSP DaVinci[tm] Development Kit offers an integrated platform combining TI DaVinci technology with Xilinx FPGAs for design teams creating compute-intensive [...]

Xilinx Virtex-5 FXT ML510 Embedded Development Platform

Posted by Ken Cheung in Tool on Wednesday, October 29, 2008

The Virtex-5 FXT FPGA ML510 Embedded Development Platform, from Xilinx, Inc. (Nasdaq: XLNX), features dual processors. Built around the Virtex-5 FXT FPGA platform with its two integrated Power PC(R) 440 processors and supported by Linux and VxWorks operating systems, the new development platform provides software and hardware design teams with unprecedented levels of flexibility and [...]

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