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 […]
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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 […]
FPGA and SoC software reduces compile times
The release of the Quartus II software version 13.0, delivers the highest levels of FPGA and SoC performance and designer productivity. Users targeting 28 nm FPGAs and SoCs will experience on average a 25 percent reduction in compile times. The most difficult-to-close designs targeting high-end 28 nm Stratix V FPGAs will see compilation times slashed […]
