Altera Corporation (Nasdaq: ALTR) announced the availability of a new power conversion solution that makes it easy for board developers to design point-of-load power solutions and achieve the highest FPGA performance at the lowest system power. The new power conversion solution, a monolithic 40A driver plus synchronous MOSFET powertrain, is optimized to meet the core […]
Low Power
IGLOO NANO FPGAs: How to Choose?
By Chris Francis Xilinx CoolRunner-II Most of my design is for battery operated equipment, requiring low power devices. While I have used a lot of CPLDs and FPGAs over the years, most devices available are not usually “low power” so you have a limited choice. Philips (now NXP) did the CoolRunner CPLDs which were sold […]
Microsemi Releases Industry-leading EnforcIT Security Monitor
Microsemi Corporation (Nasdaq: MSCC), a provider of semiconductor solutions differentiated by power, security, reliability and performance, announced it has released EnforcIT® Security Monitor, an advanced security IP block providing additional layers of user-configurable tamper protection and responses to the most secure and lowest power FPGA product families on the market—Microsemi’s SmartFusion®2 SoC FPGAs and IGLOO®2 […]
Altera SDK is First in Industry to Achieve Khronos Conformance
Altera Corporation (NASDAQ: ALTR) announced its SDK for OpenCL is conformant to the OpenCL 1.0 standard and is now included on the Khronos Group list of OpenCL conformant products. Altera is the only company to offer an FPGA-optimized OpenCL solution, allowing software developers to harness the massively parallel architecture of an FPGA for system acceleration. […]
Synchronous Ethernet Timing Card Device for Wireless Infrastructure and Metro Ethernet
The Synchronous Ethernet (SyncE) product is a single-chip, ZL30162 timing card device for mobile infrastructure and packet-based carrier Ethernet networks. The ZL30162 features four T0 high quality and highly programmable integrated digital phase lock loops (DPLLs), capable of locking up to 11 inputs for applications that require independent transmit and receive timing paths. The company […]
Altera Opens the world of FPGAs to software programmers
Availability of the SDK for OpenCL enables software programmers to access the high-performance capabilities of programmable logic devices. Altera announced a Preferred Board Partner Program, allowing third-party board vendors to work closely with Altera to design optimized production boards based on Altera’s programmable devices. The availability of supported third-party boards through the Preferred Board Partner […]
FPGA Design Software Platforms, Focuses On Ease Of Use, Low Power
The new versions of the Lattice Diamond and iCEcube2 design tools include updated software prominently features several notable advancements that improve power calculations and design productivity aimed at the creation of mobile and consumer, communication, and industrial systems that undergo fast design cycles, demand power efficiency, and have aggressive cost constraints. Lattice Diamond 2.1 New […]