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Open-source software-defined radio gets interface to Altera and Xilinx platforms
Open-source software-defined radio gets interface to Altera and Xilinx platforms
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The open source RF hardware initiative, Myriad RF, has launched an open-source interface board to connect field programmable RF (FPRF)…
Chip market confidence is flat as ranking changes
Chip market confidence is flat as ranking changes
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Confidence in an industry upturn in year ahead is exactly where it was one year ago, according to an annual…
Chip industry confidence survey reports muted optimism
Chip industry confidence survey reports muted optimism
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Confidence in an industry upturn in year ahead is exactly where it was one year ago, according to an annual…
Xilinx confirms product plans at 20nm: previews 4.4M logic cell FPGA
Xilinx confirms product plans at 20nm: previews 4.4M logic cell FPGA
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Following its announcement of its “UltraScale” architecture and intentions to move to 20-nm fabrication technology, earlier this year, Xilinx has…

Optimising high-performance CPUs, GPUs and DSPs? Use logic and memory IP
Optimising high-performance CPUs, GPUs and DSPs? Use logic and memory IP
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Mobile communications, multimedia and consumer systems-on-chip (SoCs) must achieve the highest performance while consuming the minimal amount of energy to achieve longer battery life and/or fit into lower cost packaging.
Big moves in chip vendor top 20 ranking
Big moves in chip vendor top 20 ranking
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IHS has produced a ranking of the top 20 chip vendors by projected sales in 2013 that shows memory chip vendor Micron Technologies Inc. rising six places to fourth and…
Xilinx’ 20nm All Programmable UltraScale portfolio shipping now: plans for 4.4M logic cell device
Xilinx’ 20nm All Programmable UltraScale portfolio shipping now: plans for 4.4M logic cell device
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Xilinx has announced the availability of its 20nm All Programmable UltraScale portfolio with product documentation and Vivado Design Suite support. The new product portfolio extends Xilinx’s Kintex and Virtex FPGA…
Chipmaking equipment spend to rise in 2014
Chipmaking equipment spend to rise in 2014
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Industry association SEMI, has forecast that the market for new semiconductor manufacturing equipment will contract 13.3 percent to $32.0 billion in 2013 and rebound in 2014 with a global 23.2…
Gartner: Qualcomm, Micron rise in 2013 chip market
Gartner: Qualcomm, Micron rise in 2013 chip market
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Qualcomm and Micron are set to win in the 2013 chip vendor ranking at the expense of Intel and Samsung as global annual chip market revenue climbs 5.2 percent to…
Industry’s first development tools for 20-nm FPGAs and SoCs improve power savings and costs
Industry’s first development tools for 20-nm FPGAs and SoCs improve power savings and costs
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Altera Corporation has released the Quartus II software Arria 10 edition, which the company claims is the industry’s first development tool support for 20 nm FPGAs and SoCs.
Europe improves as China drives chip market
Europe improves as China drives chip market
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Europe boasted its fifth consecutive month of chip sales growth in October in a global market that was ahead of seasonal averages and driven by strong demand in China, according…
Begin 20-nm FPGA designs now with latest tool set – Altera
Begin 20-nm FPGA designs now with latest tool set – Altera
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Quartus II Software Arria 10 Edition is the first development tool support for 20 nm FPGAs and SoCs, Altera claims. Based on TSMC 20 nm process technology, Arria 10 FPGAs…
PCI Express 2.0 SIG certification for SoC FPGAs
PCI Express 2.0 SIG certification for SoC FPGAs
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PCI Express 2.0 SIG certification for SoC FPGAs…
FPGA-based processing board targets computing clusters
FPGA-based processing board targets computing clusters
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Alpha Data has worked closely with Xilinx to bring a powerful new processing solution to the data centre market based on Xilinx' All Programmable FPGAs.
Network FPGA processing board targets computing clusters
Network FPGA processing board targets computing clusters
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Alpha Data has worked closely with Xilinx to bring a powerful new processing solution to the data center market based on XilinxAll Programmable FPGAs.
100G Ethernet and Interlaken IP cores for FPGAs
100G Ethernet and Interlaken IP cores for FPGAs
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Altera's intellectual property for high-capacity transmission and backhaul applications strengthen, the company says, its portfolio with highest-performance, lowest-latency and smallest resource area comms functions…
100G Ethernet and Interlaken IP cores to drive high-capacity transmission and backhaul
100G Ethernet and Interlaken IP cores to drive high-capacity transmission and backhaul
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Altera has launched four new IP cores for 100G Interlaken and Ethernet to drive the next generation of high speed interconnect based on Aria 10 20nm FPGAs.
FPGA-based acceleration on IBM Power Systems with OpenCL
FPGA-based acceleration on IBM Power Systems with OpenCL
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Altera has announced that the latest release of the its software development kit SDK for OpenCL supports IBM Power Systems servers as an OpenCL system host. This, Altera says, strengthens…
Security IP delivers hardware tamper detection and response mechanisms to SmartFusion2 SoC FPGAs and IGLOO2 FPGAs
Security IP delivers hardware tamper detection and response mechanisms to SmartFusion2 SoC FPGAs and IGLOO2 FPGAs
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With Microsemi’s EnforcIT security monitor IP block, additional layers of user-configurable tamper protection and responses can be designed into the company’s SmartFusion2 SoC FPGAs and IGLOO2 FPGAs.
IP block adds tamper-detection and security to FPGAs
IP block adds tamper-detection and security to FPGAs
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From Microsemi, for its SmartFusion2 SoC FPGAs and IGLOO2 FPGAs, comes EnforcIT Security Monitor; security IP that provides deepened layers of security with configurations of advanced hardware tamper detection and…
CEVA DSP cores delivered via Synopsys’ DesignWare
CEVA DSP cores delivered via Synopsys’ DesignWare
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An HPC Design kit of optimised embedded memories and logic libraries yields 8% performance improvement and 13% leakage power reduction with smaller area, for CEVA-XC DSPs…
Large-scale integration of neuronics: Part 1
Large-scale integration of neuronics: Part 1
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Dennis Feucht discusses storage and refresh in the context of analog computation…
High-density video frame buffer supports throughputs up to 4.8Gbps
High-density video frame buffer supports throughputs up to 4.8Gbps
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Cypress Semiconductor has released the CYFB0072 video frame buffer, a 72-Mbit device based on the company’s SRAM technology, operating as a First-In, First-Out (FIFO) memory with independent read and write…
First 20nm SoC product shipped, says Xilinx
First 20nm SoC product shipped, says Xilinx
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The era of 20-nm silicon – outside of high-end processors – has become more “real” with Xilinx' announcement that it has despatched the first UltraScale ASIC-class programmable architecture parts to…
Real-time Ethernet, multi-protocol switch supports all major industrial Ethernet protocols
Real-time Ethernet, multi-protocol switch supports all major industrial Ethernet protocols
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Innovasic’s latest Industrial Ethernet switch, the fido5000, is a real-time Ethernet, multi-protocol switch that can be paired with any processor including any ARM CPU or Innovasic’s fido1100 communication controller.
FPGA control-plane designs for next-generation wireless infrastructure
FPGA control-plane designs for next-generation wireless infrastructure
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Lattice Semiconductor has a collaboration with Azcom Technology to further development of HetNet equipment being deployed in response to explosive growth in mobile traffic…
IP for programmable interrupt controller
IP for programmable interrupt controller
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Digital Core Design, the IP core provider and SoC design house from Poland has introduced its D8259 Programmable Interrupt Controller that is fully compatible with the 82C59A device. As with…
SILICA introduces ROHM Semiconductor high-speed power supply module board to Europe
SILICA introduces ROHM Semiconductor high-speed power supply module board to Europe
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Avnet Electronics Marketing has collaborated with Japanese IC manufacturer ROHM Semiconductor to jointly design and develop a power supply module board optimized for Xilinx 7 series FPGAs and Zynq-7000 all…


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