White Paper: FPGA-Controlled Test (FCT): What it is and why it is needed
ASSET InterTech published a white paper about a new method for validating, testing and debugging circuit boards by embedding a board-tester-in-a-chip. The title of the technical article is: FPGA-Controlled Test (FCT): What it is and why it is needed. The paper describes a method call FPGA-controlled test (FCT). FCT involves the automatic insertion of multiple [...]
MoSys Bandwidth Engine FPGA Companion Kit and Characterization Kit
MoSys rolled out their Bandwidth Engine FPGA Companion Kit and Characterization Kit. The Bandwidth Engine development kits enable system designers to evaluate Bandwidth Engine ICs and develop products on fully-functional hardware platforms.
Altera SoC FPGA Virtual Target
Altera introduced the SoC FPGA Virtual Target. It is a PC-based functional simulation of the Altera SoC FPGA development board. The SoC FPGA Virtual Target is the industry’s first virtual target designed to enable immediate device-specific embedded software development targeting Altera’s newly announced SoC FPGA devices. The Altera SoC FPGA Virtual Target can be ordered [...]
Xilinx Pocket Power Estimator App for iPad and iPhone Devices
Xilinx announced their new Pocket Power Estimator (PPE) app. The application is a high-level power estimation application that enables designers to quickly perform what-if power analyses based on specific design scenarios. The app for Apple iPad and iPhone devices helps designers to see how Xilinx’s 28nm 7 series Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGA) platforms compare [...]
Synplify Pro and Synplify Premier FPGA Synthesis Tools, 2011.09 Release
Synopsys rolled out the 2011.09 software release of Synplify Pro and Synplify Premier FPGA synthesis tools. The latest version enables engineers to build higher reliability into FPGA designs through a new feature that provides automated creation and preservation of error-correction logic, including safe finite-state machines (FSMs). The 2011.09 release of the Synplify Pro and Synplify [...]
ASSET InterTech ScanWorks FPGA-Controlled Test
ASSET InterTech announced their new ScanWorks FPGA-Controlled Test (FCT). With ScanWorks FCT, embedded instruments engineers can select the instruments they need, set their parameters and insert them into a field programmable gate array to function as a circuit board tester. Once inserted, ScanWorks FCT operates the board-tester-in-a-chip from a drag-and-drop user interface for validation, testing [...]
Altera Arria V Early Power Estimator Tool
Altera introduced their Arria V PowerPlay Early Power Estimator (EPE) tool. As the name implies, Arria V EPE enables designers to accurately evaluate the power consumption savings that can be achieved using Arria V FPGA devices. Arria V FPGAs offer the lowest total power for midrange applications with an optimized balance between power, performance and [...]
Altera Stratix V GX FPGA Signal Integrity Development Kit for 28nm
Altera introduced the Stratix V GX FPGA Signal Integrity Development Kit for 28nm FPGA devices. The Altera kit features a Stratix V GX FPGA-based development board, one-year license of Quartus II Software, design examples, access to Altera’s MegaCore IP library, and advanced equalization functions for the device’s high-speed serial transceivers. The Stratix V GX FPGA [...]
X-ES XPedite2300 XMC FPGA Module and Development Kit
Extreme Engineering Solutions (X-ES) introduced their XPedite2300 XMC module. The XPedite2300 features a Xilinx Virtex-6 FPGA and support for daughter cards. The XPedite2300 module is ideal for data streaming applications that require real-time signal processing, such as video surveillance, signals intelligence, and infrared threat detection. X-ES also announced the XPedite2300 FPGA Development Kit (FDK). The [...]
Quantum Channel Designer Design Kits and IBIS-AMI Models for Altera FPGA
Signal Integrity Software (SiSoft) rolled out IBIS-AMI models for Altera’s Stratix IV GT, Stratix IV GX and Arria II GX FPGA devices. The models simulate the complex circuit components in Altera’s field programmable gate arrays. Quantum Channel Designer design kits are also available for Altera’s Stratix IV GX, Stratix IV GT and Arria II GX [...]
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