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Cypress adds entry-level chips to mixed-signal programmables
Cypress adds entry-level chips to mixed-signal programmables
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Expanding the PSoC 4 architecture with entry-level PSoC 4000 devices, Cypress has configured a family of low-cost ARM Cortex-M0 cores…
Altera boasts working silicon with 14 nm Tri-Gate process
Altera boasts working silicon with 14 nm Tri-Gate process
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Altera says that test chips it has fabricated in 14 nm finfet – or Tri-Gate, as Intel terms it –…
Altera drops “hard” floating point blocks into FPGAs
Altera drops “hard” floating point blocks into FPGAs
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Altera says it has implemented the first-available IEEE 754-compliant hardened floating-point DSP blocks on FPGAs, and that it is shipping…
Cadence breaks into top four in semi IP core ranking
Cadence breaks into top four in semi IP core ranking
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Cadence Design Systems Inc. moved into the top four of semiconductor IP core suppliers in 2013 spurred by its renewed…

20-nm FPGAs shift to fine-pitch copper bump technology to meet interconnect needs
20-nm FPGAs shift to fine-pitch copper bump technology to meet interconnect needs
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Altera and TSMC have announced that they are to use TSMC’s fine-pitch copper bump-based packaging technology for Altera’s 20 nm Arria 10 FPGAs and SoCs. Altera is the first company…
20-nm FPGAs meet interconnect needs with fine-pitch copper bump technology
20-nm FPGAs meet interconnect needs with fine-pitch copper bump technology
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Altera and TSMC have announced that they are to use TSMC’s fine-pitch copper bump-based packaging technology for Altera’s 20 nm Arria 10 FPGAs and SoCs. Altera is the first company…
Hard wired floating point changes FPGA
Hard wired floating point changes FPGA
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Altera has developed a way to add single precision floating point processing to its FPGAs with minimal overhead, opening up a wide set of new high performance computing applications.
The Filter Wizard: Just add a transistor
The Filter Wizard: Just add a transistor
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Kendall Castor-Perry of Cypress Semiconductor, otherwise known as The Filter Wizard, challenges engineers to add value around PSoCs with minimal additional analog components.
FPGA DDR4 interface demonstrated to run at 2400 Mbit/sec
FPGA DDR4 interface demonstrated to run at 2400 Mbit/sec
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Xilinx and Agilent have jointly announced that Xilinx’s DDR4 memory solution for its UltraScale devices has completed the Agilent N6462A compliance test running at 2400 Mbit/sec.
SERDES-centric FPGAs put 85k LUTs in economy package for companion-chip roles
SERDES-centric FPGAs put 85k LUTs in economy package for companion-chip roles
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A device family from Lattice combines 40% lower-cost, 30% lower power and 2X functional density in the smallest package to meet the unique needs of fast growing high-volume markets such…
Companion FPGA packs 85K LUTs in 10x10mm package
Companion FPGA packs 85K LUTs in 10x10mm package
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The ECP5 FPGA Family launched by Lattice Semiconductor was specifically designed to focus on key fast growing and high-volume markets such as small-cells, microservers, broadband access, or industrial video.
40A point-of-load power-conversion for high-performance FPGAs, SoCs and memory
40A point-of-load power-conversion for high-performance FPGAs, SoCs and memory
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Altera has announced, from the product line it acquired with the purchase of Enpirion, a power conversion product aimed at board developers designing point-of-load power solutions, to achieve maximum FPGA…
H.265 4Kp60 video encoding servers are design win for Altera
H.265 4Kp60 video encoding servers are design win for Altera
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Harmonic, supplier of video delivery infrastructure systems, has used Altera's H.265 Enhanced Motion Estimation Engine paired with server software to enable 4Kp60 Performance with up to 60% efficiency gain vs.
Delivering more video, to more users – HEVC to the rescue
Delivering more video, to more users – HEVC to the rescue
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No longer confined to watching video on a tethered TV set, consumers have an insatiable appetite for video and they want it anytime, anywhere and on any device. Video traffic…
Chip market grew 5% in 2013, says Gartner
Chip market grew 5% in 2013, says Gartner
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Total worldwide semiconductor revenue reached $315 billion in 2013, up 5 percent from 2012, according final figures compiled by market research firm Gartner Inc.
Global chip sales up 11% in February
Global chip sales up 11% in February
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The three-month average of worldwide chip sales was $25.87 billion in February, up 11.4 percent over the equivalent figure in February 2013, according to the United States Semiconductor Industry Association…
Memory, firms, fabless climb chip vendor ranking
Memory, firms, fabless climb chip vendor ranking
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IC Insights has produced a ranking of the top 20 chip vendors by sales in 2013 that shows memory and fabless chip vendors doing well and moving up the table…
Four-quadrant DC/DC regulator smoothly transitions from positive to negative output
Four-quadrant DC/DC regulator smoothly transitions from positive to negative output
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In many electronic systems, it is necessary to provide a bipolar (positive and negative) voltage or current into a particular type of load. Loads that require bipolar voltages/currents include FPGA…
Software-defined Specification Environment supports “softly” defined networks
Software-defined Specification Environment supports “softly” defined networks
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Xilinx’ SDNet Software Defined Specification Environment and All Programmable FPGAs/SoCs expand programmability and intelligence from the control to the data plane: introduces notion of “content-aware data plane hardware”, and allows…
Altera, Intel to work on development of multi-die devices
Altera, Intel to work on development of multi-die devices
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Altera and Intel – the two companies already have a manufacturing partnership – have announced a collaboration to optimise integration of 14-nm Tri-Gate (the Intel term for Fin-FET) Stratix 10…
Intel’s 14nm Tri-Gate for Altera’s heterogeneous multi-die FPGAs
Intel’s 14nm Tri-Gate for Altera’s heterogeneous multi-die FPGAs
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Altera Corporation and Intel Corporation are to develop multi-die FPGA devices based on Intel’s package and assembly capabilities and Altera’s programmable logic technology.
The blurring line between oscilloscopes and On-Die instrumentation
The blurring line between oscilloscopes and On-Die instrumentation
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Limitations from the fundamental physics of interconnect losses can't be eliminated. The only practical way around this limitation in the interconnects is to implement significant signal processing on-die…
Best practices for designing high-throughput, real-time SoC systems
Best practices for designing high-throughput, real-time SoC systems
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Modern SoC software often consists of multiple applications ranging from hard real-time, such as automotive motor control, to high-throughput, such as HD video streaming. Hybrid system design is becoming challenging…
Ultrasound beamforming source driver
Ultrasound beamforming source driver
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Supertex‘ MD2133 is a programmable high-speed source-driver for pulsed current applications.
Chipset converts Ultra HD HDMI to MIPI CSI-2
Chipset converts Ultra HD HDMI to MIPI CSI-2
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Toshiba Electronics Europe’s TC358840 Ultra HD HDMI to MIPI CSI-2 converter chipset supports 4K video resolution for next-generation CE video applications including 4K (3840x2160) resolution TVs, monitors, set-top boxes, and…
DDR4 memory handling on Xilinx FPGAs
DDR4 memory handling on Xilinx FPGAs
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Xilinx has announced that it now has a high-performance first memory solution for All Programmable UltraScale devices, running at 2400 Mb/sec…
Qualcomm climbs ranking of chip R&D spenders
Qualcomm climbs ranking of chip R&D spenders
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Intel, the world's largest chip company, remained the biggest spender on R&D in 2013 but Qualcomm jumped over Samsung into second place, according to data compiled by market research company…
Bringing advanced medical technology up to speed
Bringing advanced medical technology up to speed
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Medical-equipment designers can use high-performance FPGAs to boost performance while reducing power consumption, system cost, and development time…


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