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Xilinx Introduces Kintex-7 FPGA Embedded Kit

Ken Cheung — Thu, 24 May 2012 16:43:08 +0000

Xilinx introduced the Kintex-7 FPGA Embedded Kit. The Xilinx Kintex-7 Embedded Kit includes the components of the Kintex-7 KC705 Base Evaluation Kit plus all additional soft content that embedded system designers need to quickly design their high-performance embedded systems. This includes the embedded targeted reference design and relevant tools such as ISE Embedded Edition software. The Kintex-7 FPGA Embedded Kit is priced at $1895.

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CommAgility Introduces AMC-V6L FPGA Processing Module

Ken Cheung — Tue, 22 May 2012 18:21:08 +0000

CommAgility introduced the AMC-V6L FPGA processing module. The AMC-V6L AdvancedMC module features the Xilinx Virtex-6 FPGA, 256Mbytes of 16-bit DDR3 SDRAM memory, 128Mbytes of Flash memory, dual Gigabit Ethernet, and two SFP+ sockets. The CommAgility AMC-V6L is sampling now. It is priced at less than $2,000 in 1K+ volume. The AMC-V6L FPGA processing module is ideal for wireless, general-purpose FPGA acceleration and I/O processing applications.

U.S. DLA Qualifies Microsemi RTAX-S/SL FPGA for QML Class V

Ken Cheung — Mon, 21 May 2012 15:47:47 +0000

Microsemi’s RTAX-S/SL field programmable gate arrays have received QML Class V qualification. The U.S. Defense Logistics Agency (DLA) qualified the FPGA as Qualified Manufacturers List Class V in accordance with military performance standard MIL-PRF-38535 space-level qualification requirements. QML Class V is the highest standard in the industry for space integrated circuits. Microsemi radiation-tolerant RTAX-S/SL FPGAs are ideal for space-flight systems. They feature high performance, low power, single-chip form factor and live-at-power-up operation.

Lattice Released iCE40 Los Angeles mobileFPGA in Volume Production

Ken Cheung — Tue, 15 May 2012 17:19:14 +0000

Eight devices in the Lattice Semiconductor iCE40 Los Angeles mobileFPGA family have been fully qualified and released into volume production. The low power LP640, LP1K, LP4K and LP8K devices, and the higher performance HX640, HX1K, HX4K and HX8K devices have been production released with 17 different device/package combinations.

HuMANDATA Introduces EDA-301 USB-FPGA Board

Ken Cheung — Mon, 14 May 2012 16:58:09 +0000

HuMANDATA introduced their EDA-301 USB-FPGA board. The EDA-301 features the Altera Cyclone IV E FPGA (EP4CE15F17C8N), 5.0 V external input or USB bus power, and 56 user I/O’s, which are divided into two I/O banks. The configurable PCB includes on-board oscillators, user switches and LEDs. It measures 53 mm x 54 mm, and can be easily swapped for a different FPGA/CPLD board.

PLDA Unveils QuickTCP 10G TCP/IP Stack IP Core for Altera, Xilinx FPGA

Ken Cheung — Wed, 09 May 2012 16:12:20 +0000

PLDA recently introduced their QuickTCP IP, which is a 10Gb TCP/IP Hardware stack IP core. It features an AMBA AXI4 user interface that enables instant integration into either Altera-based or Xilinx-based FPGA designs. PLDA QuickTCP is a 100% RTL designed IP. It is compliant with the IEEE802.3 specification and supporting the ARP, IPv4, ICMP, and TCP protocols. The PLDA QuickTCP IP solution is available now from PLDA.

X-fest 2012 Technical Seminars Heading to Dallas, Minneapolis, Toronto, Vancouver

Ken Cheung — Tue, 08 May 2012 15:20:52 +0000

Avnet Electronics Marketing is currently holding their X-fest technical seminar series in North America. X-fest 2012 features twelve technical courses based on Xilinx’s new Artix-7, Kintex-7 and Virtex-7 FPGAs, and Zynq-7000 Extensible Processing Platform (EPP) family. There are four remaining cities on the North American schedule: Dallas, Minneapolis, Toronto, and Vancouver.

Lattice Introduces New Power Management Architecture, Releases Two App Notes

Ken Cheung — Mon, 07 May 2012 16:19:36 +0000

Lattice Semiconductor introduced a new power management architecture. The new in-system upgradable, star topology power management architecture can be used across a wide range of circuit boards requiring over 12 power supply rails. In addition, Lattice also released two new application notes for their Platform Manager devices that will enable engineers to quickly adopt the new architecture.

Lattice Semiconductor Packs MachXO2 PLD into 32 QFN Package

Ken Cheung — Tue, 01 May 2012 15:52:23 +0000

Lattice Semiconductor’s MachXO2 family of programmable logic devices (PLD) is available in a new 32 QFN (Quad Flatpack No-leads) package. Engineering samples of the MachXO2-256 in the 32 QFN package are available now. Production-qualified versions will be available in the third quarter of this year. MachXO2 PLDs with 256 LUTs are priced at $0.55 in volumes of 250K units. The programmable devices are supported in Lattice Diamond design software version 1.4.2.

Maxim 1-Wire Security Reference Design Protects Spartan-6 FPGA-Based Designs

Ken Cheung — Mon, 30 Apr 2012 15:36:15 +0000

Maxim Integrated Products introduced a reference design that will protect Xilinx Spartan-6 field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs). The reference design features security software (from Maxim or Xilinx) and the Maxim DS28E01-100 1-Wire secure memory device. Engineers can easily add a level of design security to products with the Maxim DS28E01-100 1-Wire secure memory device. In the future, the reference design will support Artix-7, Kintex-7, Virtex-7 and the Zynq-7000 FPGA devices.