FPGA / PLD

ISE software release has enhancements to the PlanAhead design and analysis tool, providing partial reconfiguration support for Virtex-7 and Kintex-7 FPGAs, and

With the takeover of Actel by Microsemi, the semiconductor industry loses, for the time being anyway, one of its most colourful CEOs, John East, who bridges the gap between the old Wild West days of the semiconductor industry and its more sober, bottom-line modern incarnation.

Actel’s latest programmer for its various FPGA families, also supports FPGA embedded software program and debug managed by the company’s SoftConsole IDE for emb

Altera has improved its Arria II GX FPGA variant with 6.375-Gbps transceivers and up to 1.25-Gbps LVDS support, and has added the Arria II GZ FPGA variant.

With SmartFusion, Actel believes it has overcome the problem of getting a hardware processor core to operate efficiently in tandem with FPGA gates

Following on from the distributor’s Snake-Bytes reference designs, the emphasis is firmly on offering a large number of IO pins, with potential for add-on board

Actel is offering a range of prototype devices for demonstrating and validating designs targeted to its RTAX-DSP space-flight FPGAs

The Ethernet AVB Reference Design is ideal for the development of a broad range of professional and consumer networked audio and video applications, automotive

Altera has released the Stratix IV GX Edition of its Transceiver Signal Integrity Development Kit.

Achronix Semiconductor's 1.5 GHz Speedster FPGA family is available with a series of high-performance Advanced Encryption Standard IP cores.