Lattice iCE40 mobileFPGA Devices Support MIPI Battery Interface Standard
Lattice Semiconductor has adopted the MIPI Battery Interface (BIF) standard within the iCE40 mobileFPGA family of products. As an industry-created and adopted standard, the MIPI BIF single-wire specification accelerates the design and use of smart batteries in mobile devices. Lattice Semiconductor is engaged with key customers on the MIPI BIF standard. They plan to make [...]
Altera Packs Two 100G Transponders on a Single FPGA
Altera created a single-chip, dual 100G transponder solution that is implemented in a 28nm high-performance Stratix V FPGA. With the new dual 100G transponder solution, Altera is now able to deliver density that is unachievable with current solutions and puts them on the path to support data rates of 400G and beyond. Altera is currently [...]
LDRA Tool Suite Supports Direct Integration with Altera Nios II Embedded Design Suite
Earlier in the week, LDRA announced that they have enhanced the LDRA tool suite to support direct integration with Altera’s Embedded Design Suite (EDS) for Nios II soft core processors. The LDRA tool suite features templates tailored to specific industry and programming standards. These are delivered pre-populated with standard requirements, simplifying compliance for developers. Combined [...]
Aldec ALINT 2012.01 Includes Documentation Support for Safety-Critical Designs
Aldec rolled out ALINT 2012.01. The latest version features documentation support that addresses the strict guidelines placed on various safety-critical industries such as DO-254 for avionics, IEC 61508/61513 for nuclear and ISO 26262 for automotive. The ability to generate a report with complete analysis of detected violations and justification of waivers can help engineers decrease [...]
Cornell University Students Create Interesting FPGA Projects
Every year, the brilliant students at Cornell University work on some fabulous projects for their ECE 5760. The students were given the responsibility of choosing their project, then designing and building it. Projects were built using the Altera/Terasic DE2 Development and Education board. This year’s projects include: prime number generator and RSA encrypter/decrypter, Conway’s life [...]
Xilinx ISE Design Suite v13.2 Supports 28nm 7 FPGA Devices
Xilinx rolled out version 13.2 of their ISE Design Suite. The latest version features 28nm 7 series support, 25% performance improvement for designs targeting Virtex-7 2000T FPGA devices, PlanAhead design and analysis tool enhancements, partial reconfiguration support for Virtex-7 and Kintex-7 FPGAs, and front-to-back, integrated project management environment. ISE Design Suite 13 is available now. [...]
Silicon Laboratories Si51x XO and VCXO Crystal Oscillators
Silicon Laboratories introduced the Si51x XO/VCXO family of crystal oscillators (XOs) and voltage-controlled XOs (VCXOs). The Si512/3 dual-frequency XO devices can replace two discrete XOs and a multiplexer in networking, broadcast video and other applications that use multi-rate SerDes devices and FPGA devices. Si510/511 single-frequency XO is priced from $2.10 to $3.69 (in 10,000-unit quantities). [...]
FPGA-based Prototyping Methodology Manual by Synopsys and Xilinx
Synopsys and Xilinx teamed on the FPGA-based Prototyping Methodology Manual (FPMM): Best Practices in Design-for-Prototyping. The manual covers all aspects of FPGA-based prototyping, including understanding the challenges and benefits of prototyping, the implementation of a SoC design in FPGA, and its use for software and system validation. FPMM is a practical guide to using FPGAs [...]
The Altera Embedded Initiative
Altera introduced their Embedded Initiative, which will give designers a single FPGA design flow based on the Quartus II development software. The design flow features the Qsys system-level integration tool, a common FPGA intellectual property (IP) library, and the ARM Cortex-A9 MPCore and MIPS Technologies MIPS32 embedded processors. The Qsys system-level integration tool leverages FPGA-optimized [...]
RoweBots Unison Ultra Tiny Linux RTOS for Actel SmartFusion FPGA
The RoweBots Unison ultra tiny Linux compatible OS is now available for Actel SmartFusion devices. Thanks to the partnership, developers now have the option for Linux-based embedded systems when using SmartFusion intelligent mixed signal FPGAs. Unison consists of a set of modular software components that are either free or commercially licensed. All Unison versions are [...]
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