Atmel® Corporation (NASDAQ: ATML) expanded its SmartConnect wireless portfolio with a wireless combo system-on-chip (SoC) for the rapidly growing Internet of Things (IoT) market. The new fully integrated WILC3000 wireless link controller combines Wi-Fi 802.11n and Bluetooth Smart-ready technologies in an ultra-small 4.1mm x 4.1mm Wafer Level Chip Scale Package (WLCSP) with lower power consumption, […]
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Highest DSP count ever in new FPGA chip
Xilinx, Inc. announced the expansion of its 20 nm portfolio with shipment of the Kintex® UltraScale KU115 FPGA. As the flagship of the Kintex UltraScale family, the KU115 offers the highest DSP count available in a single programmable device, doubling the DSP resources previously available. This DSP-optimized KU115 FPGA targets data center compute acceleration and […]
Xilinx Expands 20 nm Kintex UltraScale Portfolio
Xilinx, Inc. today announced the expansion of its 20 nm portfolio with shipment of the Kintex®UltraScale™ KU115 FPGA. As the flagship of the Kintex UltraScale family, the KU115 offers the highest DSP count available in a single programmable device, doubling the DSP resources previously available. This DSP-optimized KU115 FPGA targets data center compute acceleration and signal processing […]
Altera and Lime Microsystems Team Up
Altera Corporation and Lime Microsystems, a leading provider of field programmable RF (radio frequency) transceivers headquartered in the UK, have entered into a Strategic Cooperation Agreement focused on jointly developing and promoting programmable solutions for a diverse range of broadband wireless markets. The agreement will result in the development of optimized field programmable radio frequency […]
Microsemi Enables FPGA-Based Root-of-Trust Solution for Embedded Systems
Microsemi Corporation (Nasdaq: MSCC), a provider of semiconductor solutions differentiated by power, security, reliability and performance, unveiled its new FPGA-based Secure Boot Reference Design for embedded microprocessors. This new reference design uses the advanced security features in its mainstream SmartFusion®2 SoC FPGAs to securely boot any application processor in an embedded system, and ensures that […]
Altera JESD204B Solutions Simplify Integration
Altera Corporation (Nasdaq: ALTR) announced the availability of a broad range of JESD204B solutions designed to simplify the integration of Altera FPGAs and SoCs and high-speed data converters in systems using the latest JEDEC JESD204B standard. The interface standard is used across many applications, including radar, wireless radioheads, medical imaging equipment, software defined radios and […]
Altera Brings FPGA-based Acceleration to IBM Power Systems
Altera Corporation (NASDAQ: ALTR) announced the latest release of the Altera SDK for OpenCL supports IBM Power Systems servers as an OpenCL system host. Customers are now able to develop OpenCL code that targets IBM Power Systems CPUs and accelerator boards with Altera FPGAs as a high-performance compute solution. FPGA accelerated systems can achieve a […]
USB Plug and Play Comes to the NI LabVIEW RIO Architecture
National Instruments (Nasdaq: NATI) announced four new R Series boards (USB-7855R, USB-7856R, USB-7855R OEM and USB-7856R OEM) with USB connectivity, which help engineers add FPGA technology to any PC-based system using one of the most widely adopted buses on the market. These products, based on the LabVIEW RIO architecture, are a result of the companys […]
System Builder Design Tool for ARM-based SmartFusion2 SoC FPGA Designs
SmartFusion2 SoC FPGA users can now benefit from its newly released design tool, System Builder. System Builder is a powerful new design tool within the Libero System-on-Chip (SoC) Design Environment version 11.0 and is specifically targeted at accelerating user definition and implementation of ARM-based systems using SmartFusion2 SoC FPGAs. The output from System Builder is […]
ARM Processor-based Zynq-7000 All Programmable SoCs
The Zynq-7000 All Programmable System-on-Chip (SoC) offers Smarter Vision solutions for biomedical sensing and industrial applications. Biomedical Sensors – A biomedical sensing platform that uses a Zynq-7000 All Programmable SoC to connect a compact display and small add-on card to the sensor. Motor/Motion Control – The Zynq-7000 All Programmable SoC Intelligent Drives Platform. This platform […]