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Analog eLab Videocasts

Posted by Ken Cheung in Event on Friday, November 21, 2008

Avnet Electronics Marketing, Texas Instruments (TI), and Xilinx have teamed together for a new eight-part, weekly video series emphasizing power supply design techniques for field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs). The new Analog eLab video series features engineering subject matter experts from Avnet, TI and Xilinx, discussing and demonstrating innovative solutions and best practices for typical design [...]

Xilinx PCI Express 2.0 Compliant Virtex-5 FXT FPGA

Posted by Ken Cheung in FPGA on Thursday, November 20, 2008

The Virtex(R)-5 FXT FPGA platform from Xilinx, Inc. (Nasdaq: XLNX) is fully compliant with version 2.0 of the PCI Express(R) standard, making it the first FPGA offering available to support the 5Gbps version of the widely-adopted serial interconnect standard. The Virtex-5 FXT FPGA platform has been added to the PCI-SIG(R) Integrator's List of products that [...]

Lattice SPI4.2 MACO Core with Link Layer Buffer Management

Posted by Ken Cheung in IP Core on Wednesday, November 19, 2008

Lattice Semiconductor Corporation (NASDAQ: LSCC) has enhanced their LatticeSCM[tm] FPGA family-based SPI4.2 MACO[tm] ("Masked Array for Cost Optimization") cores by adding sophisticated link layer buffer management options. Compared to competitive FPGAs, the LatticeSCM FPGA family offeres the most feature-rich SPI4.2-based cores and bridge reference designs at the lowest cost, power and printed circuit board footprint. [...]

Xilinx 3GPP LTE Reference Design

Posted by Ken Cheung in Reference Design on Wednesday, November 19, 2008

Xilinx, Inc. (Nasdaq: XLNX) introduced a Digital Front End (DFE) design optimized for faster, lower cost development of 3rd Generation Partnership Protocol (3GPP) Long Term Evolution (LTE) wireless communications systems. It is the first DFE design specifically targeted for high performance 3GPP LTE radio applications that reduces overall power consumption and is scalable from large [...]

Ambric to Sell Patents, Products, and Other Assets

Posted by Ken Cheung in Other on Tuesday, November 18, 2008

Ambric will sell the company including its product line, patents, and other assets. Ambric was unable to secure additional financing in the current economic environment and has suspended all operations not associated with the sale of the company or fulfillment of existing customer production requests through its long term supply agreements. Ambric also has suspended [...]

SCE-MI: Enabling Faster IP Verification with Emulation and FPGA Prototyping

Posted by Ken Cheung in Event on Tuesday, November 18, 2008

Bluespec is offering a webinar entitled "SCE-MI: Enabling Faster IP Verification with Emulation and FPGA Prototyping." The webcast introduces SCE-MI (Standard Co-Emulation Modeling Interface), which is the industry standard for co-emulation. The SCE-MI standard makes connecting software testbenches with hardware emulations and FPGA prototypes much easier.
The one hour webinar will held on Wednesday, November 19, [...]

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