PLD / FPGA Last update: 2nd June 2010

Top Stories

At FPGA Camp it was not Xilinx v/s Altera v/s Lattice Semiconductor

Free vendor-neutral FPGA design learning event in Bangalore

Cavium's OCTEON II and the Lattice' ECP3 FPGA to talk via serial I/O

Webinar by Actel on its Smartfusion FPGA products

Robust market demand for semiconductor devices in 2010

Latest semiconductor market stats from SIA and IDC

The market growth to continue for semiconductor industry in remaining quarters of 2010

Actel partners with Cryptography Research to enhance security of its FPGAs

Stratix IV GT FPGAs from Altera interoperate with QSFP high-speed optical modules

Lattice Semiconductor's ispMACH 4000 CPLD shipment counter crosses 200 million

Tabula delivers breakthrough tech in FPGAs by adding another programming variable

Digi-Key to stock and sell Altera's FPGAs in Asia-Pacific region

Production shipment of 40-nm Arria II GX FPGAs from Altera

Between Xilinx and Altera at 28nm, who is the winner?

New innovations to improve density and I/O performance of Altera's 28-nm FPGAs

Full qualification of Xilinx Virtex-6 FPGA family on UMC's 40nm process devices

Actel FPGAs inside Boeing's 787 Dreamliner

Xilinx to showcase its India team's design strength at VLSI Conference, Bangalore

Interaction with Xilinx-India CTO on FPGA design issues and trends

XtremeData deploy Altera's Stratix IV FPGAs into its dbX Analytics appliances

Advanced semiconductor chips at a price of a dollar and less

Videocast to learn techniques of powering Xilinx FPGAs

Joint collaboration enables ARM processor and intrachip bus IP on Xilinx FPGAs

Altera started shipping 40-nm Stratix IV GX FPGAs

Semiconductor industry is cautiously optimistic on next phase of growth

Barco's JPEG 2000 IP core supports 40nm FPGA platforms

Q&A: The increasing role of FPGA in embedded systems and latest trends

Actel FPGA on-board NASA Lunar spacecrafts

Sumitomo employs Stratix IV GX FPGAs in its LDPC system

Webinar by Actel and Aldec on designing FPGA based aerospace systems

One more PSoC lab in Tamil Nadu, India by Cypress Semiconductor

Harmonic choose Stratix FPGA for its video broadcast encoder

Altera and National shake hands to route video signal inside the car

Q4 2008 revenues freeze semiconductor industry to a dope less silicon

Drop of just 1% in sales revenue for Actel in 4Q08

Cypress revenues are down by 26% in Q4 of 08, but PSoC register record revenue

FPGA based motion -control platform to North American customers

IP cores from IPextreme support Mentor Graphics' PrecisionR Synthesis FPGA tool

Barco's ARINC 429 IP core for ACTEL FPGA is DO-254 certified

Cypress granted with 750 patents related to programmable logic

Actel to hold aerospace focused FPGA design forum

Future Electronics to sell and distribute Actel's products

Xilinx to present tutorials on FPGAs at FPGA Summit in US

SiliconBlue and Magma partnering in providing FPGA design tools

Actel's FPGAs to manufacture from UMC's 65nm low leakage and embedded flash tech

Impulse C-to-FPGA tool is integrated into LynuxWorks' BlueCat embedded Linux OS

Security tools for any unauthorized data transfer through USB flash drive

Silicon Micro System to train Indian electronic engineers on Lattice PLD/FPGAs

Bangalore's Ittium Systems goes for Altera's Stratix II

Lattice products are ISO/TS 16949 certified

Xilinx adds EtherCAT IP core for it's Spartan series FPGAs

Drag and drop solution announced by Altera and Northwest logic for  667-Mbps DDR2 SDRAM interface in Stratix II FPGAs

New Products

H.264 reference design from CAST implemented on Altera/Xilinx FPGAs

New 6Gbps dual SerDes IC from TI saves from costly FPGA with high-speed interface

Low power demonstration boards by NXP using FPGA boards from Lattice

BittWare readies roadmap for Altera's Stratix V FPGA based boards

FPGA with ARM processor from Xilinx

FPGA expansion board from TI for evaluating M2M parallel interface

Microtronix's DMA Engine for Altera's FPGA

Altera's new 28nm Stratix V FPGAs for silicon hungry applications

Actel packs programmable analog blocks in its FPGAs called SmartFusion

Altium's new FPGA board for embedded system designers without FPGA skills

Instant deployment enclosures for Altium's NanoBoard 3000 FPGA development board

Actel's high configurable DSP IP cores expand its RTAX-DSP FPGAs

Actel and Pigeon collaborate to deliver FPGA IP for xTCA platform management apps

Xilinx' IBIS-AMI FPGA transceiver models save simulation time

Low cost Cyclone IV FPGA from Altera with high-speed serial comm. transceiver

New Video Over IP add-on kit from Microtronix for FPGA development boards

Low power Cyclone III LS FPGA development kit from Altera with security features

Enhanced MAX II CPLD family from Altera for power sensitive apps

New Spartan-6 FPGA from Xilinx with PCIe 1.1 specification for single-lane config

FPGA based broadcast connectivity targeted design platform with DisplayPort IP core

MDDR memory controller IP core supporting 200 MHz Cyclone FPGAs

Stratix IV FPGA series with 820K logic elements

Virtex-6 HXT FPGAs from Xilinx supports high-speed serial interface

Actel's RTAX-DSP prototype FPGAs for aerospace systems

New Virtex-6 FPGA evaluation kit with TI's power management technology

Altera's RapidIO IP core qualifies RIOLAB device interoperability testing

Actel's RTAX-DSP prototype FPGAs for space-flight systems

Altera's 6.144 Gbps CPRI v4.1 IP Core for wireless applications

Stratix III FPGAs can now operate in military temp range of -55 Deg C to +125 Deg C

Altera and Xilinx announce FPGA devices with PCI Express transceivers

Arria II GX FPGA development kit with high-speed transceivers

Free MPM power management tool for FPGA design from Actel

FPGA kit allows to synergize your DSP and embedded skills with least FPGA exposure

Xilinx crypto powered Virtex-5Q FPGAs targets Indian aerospace and defense market

40 nm FPGA chips and development kits

FPGA based free reference designs for display applications

Altera's new Stratix IV GX FPGA member EP4SGX530 with 48 transceivers at 8.5 Gbps

SoftConsole Version 2.2: new version of embedded system SDE from Actel for FPGAs

FPGA based embedded systems development kit using Atera's Cyclone III family

FPGA based embedded system development kit with analog function blocks

Actel unveil low cost IGLOO nano FPGA starter kit

New low cost Spartan FPGA family for low-power applications

Altera released Quartus II software version 9.0 for FPGA and other prog logic ICs

New Stratix and Arria FPGA families from Altera with integrated transceiver

ispLEVER 7.2 FPGA design tool suite with advanced route algorithms

FPGA design tool suite with advanced place and route algorithms

Xilinx's Virtex-5 FPGA platform compliant with PCI Express version 2.0

Altera releases Quartus II software version 8.1

New version of FPGA family from Actel at price of below $1

ECP2M family development kit for fast PCI express design

ATMEL's new family of FPGAs for space applications

A new member is added to the SPEAr family of Customizable processor

Altera releases Quartus II design software version 7.0

FPGA development kit for PCI Express and PlanAhead 9.1 software from Xilinx

Virtex -4 FPGA development platform from Xilinx

Lattice releases ispLEVER 6.1 service pack 1

Atmel’s new 1.8V Low Power CPLD  with 32kbits of onchip EEPROM.

I/O Optimized Spartan 3A FPGA family from Xilinx for video applications.

Stratix III FPGA family from Altera has rich features

Mathstar  releases to market, the 2nd generation of  Field Programmable Object Arrays (FPOA).

Design Guide

White papers for Altera

Flexible Architecture to Drive Sharp Two-Way Viewing Angle and Standard LCDs

Achieving Low Power in 65-nm Cyclone III FPGAs

Broadcast Video Infrastructure Implementation Using FPGAs

Using Cyclone III FPGAs for Clearer LCD HDTV Implementation