FPGA / PLD

Altera has been upgrading its IP core offering specifically for FPGAs and system-on-chip (SoC) devices designed for the 28nm process node. In the last 12months it has released more than 15 new protocol interface IP cores. Altera claims the IP cores in expanded IP portfolio have been upgraded to deliver 15% timing margin for faster timing closure. The portfolio of ...

Microsemi has introduced a PCI Express compliant form factor evaluation platform for its IGLOO2 FPGAs. The IGLOO2 FPGA evaluation kit includes a PCIe control plane demonstration design for the development of transceiver I/O-based FPGA designs to build PCIe and Gigabit Ethernet-based systems. The kit uses a standard laptop with an ExpressCard slot or a desktop with a PCIe slot. The kit includes a 12k logic ...

Lattice Semiconductor’s latest MachXO3 FPGA is designed as a small package, low cost device offering interfaces using both parallel and serial I/O. According to Brent Przybus, director, product and corporate marketing at Lattice: “As system performance and complexity increases, I/O interfaces often become the bottleneck. Designers want to use the most advanced components, but have to deal with any number of ...

These cores can be used for building systems requiring very high throughput-rate standard Ethernet connections, including chip-to-optical module, chip-to-chip,

Lattice Semiconductor has announced availability of its MachXO2 family of programmable logic devices in a 32 QFN (Quad Flatpack No-leads) package

Microsemi has announced the availability of an LCD display reference design for industrial and medical applications based on its SmartFusion FPGA-based system-o

Microsemi has announced the release of Libero SoC v10.0, the new version of its Libero integrated design environment (IDE) for its SmartFusion FPGA-based device

Lattice Semiconductor is offering its ECP3 FPGA-enabled Sercos III module for real-time industrial networking applications

National Instruments has introduced a reconfigurable camera link frame grabber for embedded vision applications and a motion module for the CompactRIO FPGA-base

Xilinx has started shipping its stacked silicon FPGA which, with 20m ASIC gates, is aimed at accelerating the replacement of ASICs. Its 6.8bn transistors deliver 2m logic units.