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Microsemi heads for the mainstream with next generation flash FPGA
Microsemi heads for the mainstream with next generation flash FPGA
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Microsemi is aiming to take on Xilinx and Altera in mainstream industrial and safety-critical applications with a new generation of…
Bandwidth is key as Altera plans for the end of copper backplanes
Bandwidth is key as Altera plans for the end of copper backplanes
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Bandwidth is the key driver for Altera’s next generation of FPGAs as copper gives way to optical backplanes, says its…
Kintex-7 PCI Express DSP card with FMC interfaces aims at the desktop
Kintex-7 PCI Express DSP card with FMC interfaces aims at the desktop
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4DSP has launched a high-performance, half-size PCI Express desktop-compliant card with advanced Digital Signal Processing (DSP) capabilities and multiple I/O…
Positioning itself around industry needs: ASIC vendor LSI
Positioning itself around industry needs: ASIC vendor LSI
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LSI Logic has had a long history in Europe. As one of the first ASIC vendors, it has run fabs…

Arrows launches a cloud-based design platform for FPGAs
Arrows launches a cloud-based design platform for FPGAs
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The Arrow FPGA Power Designer provides a sophisticated design environment for defining and optimizing power supply systems including converter specifications in mere minutes.
Single chip FPGA 100G muxponder for optical transport networks
Single chip FPGA 100G muxponder for optical transport networks
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Altera has demonstrated a single-chip, multi-rate OTN (optical transport network) muxponder solution for 100G network aggregation.
Barco Silex opens design center in Ghent
Barco Silex opens design center in Ghent
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Barco Silex has opened a design office in Ghent to offer FPGA, ASIC, and IP design services.
Xilinx buys Estonian software house for mobile backhaul IP
Xilinx buys Estonian software house for mobile backhaul IP
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Xilinx has acquired the majority of the assets of Modesat Communications, a high performance wireless backhaul IP provider from Latvia, Estonia.
Top view camera assist for trucks and buses
Top view camera assist for trucks and buses
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Fancy passenger cars have them already: Parking assists with top view representation oft he vehicle. For the start of the commercial vehicles exposition "IAA Nutzfahrzeuge" in Hanover, Germany, automotive electronics…
Aldec enters ASIC prototyping market with system that offers 96m ASIC gate capacity
Aldec enters ASIC prototyping market with system that offers 96m ASIC gate capacity
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Aldec Europe has introduced an FPGA-based ASIC/SoC prototyping system that provides hardware verification and software verification teams with a versatile solution; and which lowers the cost of the prototyping process.
Diotek’s speech recognition engine complements Conexant’s digital audio processor
Diotek’s speech recognition engine complements Conexant’s digital audio processor
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Conexant Systems has partnered with Diotek to integrate speech recognition with its high-performance digital audio processor, the CX20805.
Xilinx teams with Barco Silex on Video over IP development
Xilinx teams with Barco Silex on Video over IP development
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Xilinx is collaborating with Barco Silex on a range of video over IP hardware-validated IP, reference designs and systems integration services.
TV makers to start shipping 4K ultra HD sets
TV makers to start shipping 4K ultra HD sets
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TV makers are ramping up development of the 4K next generation of high definition TV with shipments expected as early as Christmas and the first satellite transmissions are shown.
Xilinx takes Zynq platform into broadcast applications
Xilinx takes Zynq platform into broadcast applications
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Xilinx has teamed up with OmniTek on a Linux-based high performance real time processing platform for broadcast equipment based around its Zynq programmable system on a chip.
Low profile PCIe FPGA design kit with Xilinx Virtex-7
Low profile PCIe FPGA design kit with Xilinx Virtex-7
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PLDA has launched a half-height PCI Express board with PCIe 3.0 x8, 40G Ethernet and DDR3 SDRAM interfaces in a complete design kit for the Xilinx Virtex-7 FPGA, enabling quick…
Xilinx buys embedded Linux developer PetaLogix
Xilinx buys embedded Linux developer PetaLogix
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Xilinx has bought Australian embedded Linux solutions provider PetaLogix to provide a dedicated operating system for its Zynq FPGAs.
High reliability radiation-hard data processor
High reliability radiation-hard data processor
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Recore Systems unveiled a functional prototype of a high reliability data processor for space missions, developed in assignment of ESA-ESTEC, the European Space Research and Technology Centre in Noordwijk, The…
Virtex-7 FPGA-based XMC card with PCI Express Gen2 interface
Virtex-7 FPGA-based XMC card with PCI Express Gen2 interface
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Alpha Data has launched the ADM-XRC-7V1, a high performance reconfigurable XMC with PCI Express Gen2 interface, external memory and flexible front-panel IO options.
Mobile core gateway spending up despite gloomy infrastructure market
Mobile core gateway spending up despite gloomy infrastructure market
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Despite cut-backs in network equipment spending by mobile network operators this year due to the economic climate, purchases of mobile core gateway equipment for packet core networks are set to…
FPGA hits 1-GHz benchmark
FPGA hits 1-GHz benchmark
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Xilinx has increased the peak processing performance of the Zynq-7000 programmable SoC FPGA family to 1GHz and is providing smaller packaging for higher system performance.
World’s first RF vector signal transceiver creates new class of tester
World’s first RF vector signal transceiver creates new class of tester
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National Instruments has introduced the world’s first RF vector signal transceiver (VST), creating a new class of software-designed instrumentation.
FPGA hits 1GHz benchmark
FPGA hits 1GHz benchmark
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Xilinx has increased the peak processing performance of the Zynq-7000 programmable SoC FPGA family to 1GHz and is providing smaller packaging for higher system performance.
High reliability FPGAs complete 26 million device-hours of FPGA reliability testing
High reliability FPGAs complete 26 million device-hours of FPGA reliability testing
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Microsemi Corporation has completed reliability testing of Microsemi's commercial-grade Axcelerator FPGAs. The tests lasted more than four years with an accumulated total of more than 26 million device-hours of testing…
Developing a 200Gbit/s line card with 22nm FPGAs
Developing a 200Gbit/s line card with 22nm FPGAs
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Two key developments are shaking up the FPGA world: the advent of 22nm programmable devices and the availability of devices strongly targeted towards specific markets through the use of hardened…
High performance 40GbE and 100GbE designs with latest IP cores
High performance 40GbE and 100GbE designs with latest IP cores
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Altera has launched 40Gbps Ethernet (40GbE) and 100Gbps Ethernet (100GbE) intellectual property (IP) cores for its Stratix IV and V FPGA devices…
Expanding system control with PLDs and low overhead serial buses
Expanding system control with PLDs and low overhead serial buses
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Developing the architecture for a complicated system, the system control aspect of the design rarely gets the lion's share of attention from architects and designers.
OpenCL emerges for FPGA high level design
OpenCL emerges for FPGA high level design
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In the debate about high-level design, a new standard is emerging for FPGA designers to use alongside VHDL, Verilog and System C to bridge the gap.
Get your digital copy of eeNews Europe
Get your digital copy of eeNews Europe
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The combined July/August edition is now out in print, but you can also access our digital edition online. This month's focuses on Medical Electronics, Power Supplies and Programmable Logic will…


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