S2C Inc., a SoC/ASIC rapid prototyping solutions provider, announced that its ProtoBridge™ AXI now supports AXI-4 protocol with flexible bus width at an improved data transmission speed. Protobridge AXI is an FPGA-accelerated verification tool that enables designers to read and write data from computers to AXI-based designs mapped to FPGA-based prototypes. By utilizing a rich […]
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VadaTech Announces Xilinx All Programmable FPGA Mezzanine Carriers
VadaTech, a manufacturer of embedded boards and complete application-ready platforms, has released a full suite of FPGA Mezzanine Carriers based on Xilinx® All Programmable FPGAs. The VadaTech Advanced Mezzanine Card (AMC) modules come in versions that include Virtex®-5, Virtex®-6, Artix®-7, Kintex®-7, Virtex®-7 FPGAs and Zynq® All Programmable SoCs. These AMC modules come in the single-width […]
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 […]
Xilinx Wins Innovation Award: World’s First 3D Heterogeneous Product
Xilinx, Inc. (NASDAQ: XLNX) announced that its Virtex®-7 H580T FPGA was presented as winner of the SoC and Programmable Logic category in the 2013 Innovation Awards, organized by Italian magazine Selezione di Elettronica. Presented at the Innovation Award Gala on September 26 in Milan, Xilinx was awarded the winner among 11 other entrants. The Italian […]
Altera Extends Low-Cost Portfolio with Development Kits
Altera Corporation (Nasdaq: ALTR) announced the addition of five new low-cost development kits based on its Cyclone V FPGAs. These new kits make it easy for designers to cost-effectively get started on FPGA development with an entry point of just $49. Altera provides the industry’s broadest portfolio of low-cost solutions that deliver optimal power and […]
Altera Completes Latest Upgrade to IP Portfolio
Altera Corporation announced it has completed the latest upgrade to its portfolio of IP cores targeting 28 nm FPGAs and SoCs. Over the past year, Altera has released more than 15 new protocol interface IP cores that target a broad range of applications and markets. In addition, the IP cores in Altera’s expanded IP portfolio […]
Altera Begins Production Shipments of SoCs
Altera Corporation (Nasdaq: ALTR) announced production availability of its Cyclone® V SoCs and engineering sample availability of its Arria® V SoCs. With increased processor peak clock frequencies — Cyclone V SoCs at 925 MHz for commercial-grade and 700 MHz for automotive-grade, and Arria V SoCs at 1.05 GHz for industrial-grade — these devices are the […]
Xilinx and its Ecosystem Expand All Programmable Abstractions
Xilinx, Inc. (NASDAQ: XLNX) announced the All Programmable Abstractions initiative to improve productivity of hardware designers and to empower systems and software developers to directly leverage All Programmable FPGA, SoCs, and 3D ICs. Xilinx and its ecosystem Alliance members including MathWorks® and National Instruments® now support a combination of software, model, platform, and IP-based design […]
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 […]