Cadence Design Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ: CDNS) and dbx-tv today announced that dbx-tv’s Total Technology audio enhancement suite is now available on the Cadence Tensilica HiFi Audio/Voice digital signal processing (DSP) family. The Total Technology suite offers several technologies working together, which result in optimal audio quality that creates the best sound available from the TV’s […]
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Development kit for Kintex UltraScale FPGAs
Embedded system designers looking for a fully configurable, high performance hardware platform for engineering and verifying applications based on the Kintex UltraScale FPGA family from Xilinx will find the functionality they need in the new Kintex UltraScale FPGA Development Kit released today by Avnet, Inc. Available with the Kintex UltraScale XCKU040-1FBVA676 device in a small […]
Design suite speeds SoC, FPGA development with market-specific C libraries
Xilinx, Inc. announced the Vivado® Design Suite HLx Editions, enabling a new ultra high productivity approach for designing All Programmable SoCs, FPGAs, and the creation of reusable platforms. These new HLx Editions include HL System Edition, HL Design Edition and HL WebPACK™ Edition. All HLx Editions include Vivado High-Level Synthesis (HLS) including C/C++ libraries, Vivado IP […]
Advanced diagnostics bring SIL3 safety levels for FPGA designs
Altera Corporation announced the availability of the Altera® Functional Safety Lockstep solution for the Nios® II embedded processor, a solution that reduces risk in design cycles and helps system designers simplify certification for industrial and automotive safety applications. The joint Altera and YOGITECH lockstep solution is built using Altera FPGAs, SoCs, and certified tool flows, […]
FPGA family sports high I/O ratios
Xilinx, Inc. (NASDAQ:XLNX) announced the Spartan®-7 FPGA family that will deliver I/O intensive devices for cost-sensitive applications. The new family will address connectivity requirements across a breadth of markets including automotive, consumer, industrial IoT, data center, wired and wireless communications, and portable medical solutions. All new Spartan-7 FPGAs will be supported on the no-cost Vivado® […]
S2C Extends Its Xilinx Virtex(R) UltraScale FPGA Prototyping Board Family
S2C, Inc., a provider of FPGA-based rapid prototyping solutions, has announced the availability of its Dual VU440 Prodigy Logic Module that supports the latest Xilinx Virtex UltraScale (VU) 440 FPGA. The Dual VU440 Prodigy LM is an all-purpose FPGA prototyping system comprised of a single board. The Dual VU LM’s exceptional compact size (280mm * […]
Design suite features IP subsystems for Ethernet, PCIe, video processing, image sensor processing, and OTN development
SAN JOSE, Calif., Oct. 6, 2015 /PRNewswire/ — Xilinx, Inc. (NASDAQ: XLNX) today announced the 2015.3 release of the Vivado® Design Suite. The new release enables platform and system developers to increase productivity and decrease development costs by enabling design teams to work at a higher level of abstraction with new market-tailored, plug-and-play IP sub-systems. […]
FPGA evaluation kit for Artix-7 chips
Avnet, Inc., a global technology distributor, introduced “ARTY,” a low power, low-cost Xilinx® Artix®-7 35T FPGA Evaluation Kit. This fully customizable evaluation kit for embedded designers provides a flexible, expandable platform for prototyping designs based on Xilinx’s Artix-7 FPGA family. The evaluation kit offers users a complete development system for exploring FPGA designs for cost sensitive, […]
Logic module helps develop DSP algorithms for FPGAs
S2C, Inc., a provider of FPGA-based rapid prototyping solutions, has announced the availability of its Quad KU115 Prodigy Logic Module that supports the Xilinx Kintex UltraScale 115 FPGA. This latest addition to S2C’s Prodigy Logic Module family is aimed at complex and varied DSP algorithm development and is ideal for applications such as voice processing, graphics imaging, […]
Prototyping kit delivers 100-MHz multi-FPGA performance, HSTDM technology
Synopsys, Inc. announced the new HAPS®-80 FPGA-Based Prototyping Systems, a part of Synopsys’ end-to-end Prototyping Solution. The HAPS-80 systems deliver up to 100 MHz multi-FPGA performance and new proprietary high-speed time-domain multiplexing (HSTDM) technology. HAPS-80 withProtoCompiler design automation and debug software uses the latest Xilinx Virtex UltraScale VU440 devices with 26-million-ASIC-gates capacity per FPGA, supporting designs up to […]