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Avnet Announces Xilinx Kintex-7 FPGA DSP Development Kit

Ken Cheung — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 18:23:01 +0000

Avnet Electronics Marketing introduced the Xilinx Kintex-7 FPGA DSP Development Kit with High-Speed Analog. The new kit supports Xilinx’s 7 series Targeted Design Platforms. The Avnet includes the Xilinx Kintex-7 KC705 base board with Kintex-7 FPGA, 4DSP FMC 150 High-Speed ADC/DAC FMC, 12V power supply, Xilinx ISE Design Suite: System Edition, and Targeted Reference Designs (RTL and MathWorks model-based design tool flows). The Xilinx Kintex-7 FPGA DSP Development Kit is available for $3,995.

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ADI AD9739A D/A, AD9467 A/D Boards Support Xilinx FPGA Targeted Design Platforms

Ken Cheung — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 16:06:04 +0000

Analog Devices unveiled the AD9739A D/A converter and AD9467 A/D converter FMC boards. The two data converter FPGA mezzanine cards can connect to Xilinx’s new 28nm 7 series field programmable gate array evaluation kits. The Analog Devices FMC boards support multiple generations of Xilinx kits (including the new Kintex-7 FPGA evaluation kits). The ADI FMC boards include all of the HDL (hardware description language) code and device drivers needed for designers to engage in rapid prototyping and reduce development time and risk.

Xilinx Debuts Three Targeted Design Platforms for 28nm 7 Series FPGAs

Ken Cheung — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 17:04:20 +0000

Xilinx introduced three targeted design platforms: Virtex-7 FPGA VC707 Evaluation Kit, the Kintex-7 FPGA KC705 Evaluation Kit, and the Kintex-7 FPGA DSP Kit. The comprehensive development kits are designed for accelerating systems development and integration with Xilinx’s 28nm 7 series Field-Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs). The new targeted design platforms include boards, ISE Design Suite tools, IP cores, reference designs and FPGA Mezzanine Card (FMC) support. The three new kits are the first among nearly 40 to be delivered by Xilinx and ecosystem members.

Xilinx Releases ISE Design Suite v13.4

Ken Cheung — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 18:06:01 +0000

Xilinx rolled out version 13.4 of their ISE Design Suite. ISE Design Suite 13.4 features public access to the MicroBlaze Micro Controller System (MCS), new RX Margin Analysis and debug capabilities for the 28nm 7 Series FPGAs and partial reconfiguration support for the Artix-7 family and Virtex-7 XT devices. ISE Design Suite v13.4 is available now for all ISE Editions. List prices start at $2,995 for the Logic Edition.

Xilinx Targets 3D and 4K2K Displays with Reference Designs and ACDC Baseboard

Ken Cheung — Thu, 05 Jan 2012 16:46:14 +0000

Xilinx introduced reference designs and a development baseboard for speeding the development of next-generation, 3D and 4K2K display technologies. The 4K2K Mosaic and HDTV-to-4K2K up-converter targeted reference designs are based on the new 28nm Kintex-7 Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA). The new ACDC (Acquisition, Contribution, Distribution and Consumption) 1.0 Baseboard also uses Kintex-7 FPGA devices. The targeted reference designs and ACDC 1.0 Baseboard with the Kintex-7 FPGA will be available in Q2 2012.

D.SignT D.Module2.Base-FMC Board Supports Two Modular Standards

Ken Cheung — Wed, 04 Jan 2012 18:28:06 +0000

Thanks to the D.Module2.Base-FMC from D.SignT, developers can combine D.Module DSP and FPGA boards with Ansi Vita S7 compliant FMC modules. D.SignT’s D2-Base-FMC is a prototyping and evaluation platform for the D.Module2 family of DSP and FPGA boards. The D.Module2 standard allows stacking of modules so both an FPGA and a DSP module can be used for processing data for the same application. The board’s Ansi Vita 57 compliant FMC LPC IO site enables it to be used with industry-standard mezzanine boards (such as A/D and D/A data acquisition, video and camera interfaces, and digital radio frontends).

Lattice Diamond Design Software v1.4

Ken Cheung — Thu, 15 Dec 2011 16:50:59 +0000

Lattice Semiconductor introduced version 1.4 of the Lattice Diamond design software. Lattice Diamond v1.4 features several usability enhancements that make FPGA design exploration easier and reduce time to market. Lattice Diamond v1.4 software is available now for for both Windows and Linux. Once downloaded and installed, the software can be used with either the Lattice Diamond free license or the Lattice Diamond subscription license. The Lattice Diamond free license provides no cost access to many Lattice devices such as the MachXO2 and MachXO device families, the LatticeXP2 and LatticeECP2 FPGA families, and the Platform Manager devices. The Lattice Diamond free license enables Synopsys Synplify Pro for Lattice synthesis as well as the Aldec Lattice Edition II mixed language simulator.

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Avnet Spartan-6 FPGA Motor Control Development Kit

Ken Cheung — Wed, 14 Dec 2011 15:48:53 +0000

Avnet Electronics Marketing introduced the Spartan-6 FPGA Motor Control Development Kit. The Avnet kit helps designers prototype motor control designs for applications in industrial automation, consumer electronics, medical diagnostics and robotics. The Avnet Spartan-6 FPGA Motor Control Development Kit is an ideal platform for engineers seeking to experiment with proven reference designs and develop custom control, integrating flexible peripheral functions like Ethernet, PowerLink and PCI Express (PCIe).

Lattice Semiconductor PAC-Designer Mixed Signal Design Software v6.2

Ken Cheung — Mon, 12 Dec 2011 16:33:10 +0000

Lattice Semiconductor rolled out version 6.2 of their PAC-Designer mixed signal design software. PAC-Designer 6.2 features updated support for Lattice’s Platform Manager, Power Manager II and ispClock devices, reduced LogiBuilder code size, simplified design flow and better access to external Platform Manager pin-to-pin connections. PAC-Designer v6.2 can be downloaded now for free. PAC-Designer 6.2 software does not require a separate license file.

Kontron FMC-SER0 FPGA Mezzanine Card and KIT-FMC-DEV VITA 57 FMC Development Kit

Ken Cheung — Tue, 06 Dec 2011 16:15:51 +0000

Kontron rolled out the FMC-SER0 FPGA Mezzanine Card and the KIT-FMC-DEV VITA 57 Development Kit. The Kontron FMC-SER0 is an FMC HPC single-width module. It is designed to interface with any VITA 57 host board. The Kontron VITA 57 Development Kit KIT-FMC-DEV enables designers to use the Kontron FMC-SER0 as a reference design. All Kontron VITA 57 products are available now. They can be ordered directly off the shelf or as customized application ready platforms and can be bundled with Kontron’s long term supply program, which guarantees customers multi-year supply of the product beyond its active life.