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VDSL2 vectoring chip enables full system-level crosstalk noise cancellation
VDSL2 vectoring chip enables full system-level crosstalk noise cancellation
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Lantiq announced first customer shipments of its VINAX IVE1000 system-level vectoring engine chip, what the company claims to be the…
Digi-Key expands distribution relationship with Microsemi
Digi-Key expands distribution relationship with Microsemi
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Electronic components distributor Digi-Key Corporation has expanded its distribution relationship with Microsemi Corporation to include programmable logic solutions including the…
Arasan Chip Systems opens two new sales offices in Europe
Arasan Chip Systems opens two new sales offices in Europe
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Arasan Chip Systems has increased its International support further by opening up two new sales offices in Europe. The company…
Lattice transfers its standard military drawing (SMD) product line to Arrow Electronics
Lattice transfers its standard military drawing (SMD) product line to Arrow Electronics
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Lattice Semiconductor has announced the transfer of its Standard Military Drawing (SMD) product portfolio to Arrow Electronics, effective immediately. Lattice's…

Microsemi Launches v10.0 of its Libero SoC Integrated Design Environment
Microsemi Launches v10.0 of its Libero SoC Integrated Design Environment
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Microsemi has launched version 10.0 of its Libero SoC integrated development environment. The new version includes improved ease-of-use, increased integration of the embedded design flow and a "pushbutton" design capability…
Lattice Semiconductor plans to acquire SiliconBlue Technologies
Lattice Semiconductor plans to acquire SiliconBlue Technologies
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Lattice Semiconductor Corporation has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire SiliconBlue Technologies, a pioneer in Custom Mobile Device solutions for the consumer handheld market. Utilizing a single chip, ultra-low…
Xilinx demos, ships Zynq-7000 devices
Xilinx demos, ships Zynq-7000 devices
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At the ARM European Technical Conference (AETC), Xilinx Inc., has announced it is now shipping its Zynq-7000 Extensible Processing Platform (EPP) devices and provided the first public demonstration the devices…
Xilinx ships the first parts in its Zynq-7000 extensible processing platform
Xilinx ships the first parts in its Zynq-7000 extensible processing platform
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Xilinx has demonstrated its Zynq-7000 Extensible Processing Platform (EPP) for the first time as it starts shipping devices to customers. The platform combines 28nm FPGA fabric with a dual-core ARM…
Hard IP in FPGA brings high speed SERDES into the mainstream
Hard IP in FPGA brings high speed SERDES into the mainstream
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A new family of FPGAs from Lattice Semiconductor aims to bring high speed, 6Bgit.s SERDES into the mainstream with low cost devices. The 65nm Lattice ECP4 family uses low cost…
FPGA brings high speed SERDES to RF and communications applications
FPGA brings high speed SERDES to RF and communications applications
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A family of FPGAs from Lattice Semiconductor aims to bring high speed, 6-Gbit/s SERDES into the mainstream with low cost devices. The 65-nm Lattice ECP4 family uses low cost wire-bond…
Renesas and Hilscher to develop 40nm high end ARM chip for industrial automation
Renesas and Hilscher to develop 40nm high end ARM chip for industrial automation
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Renesas Electronics Europe has teamed up with industrial communication systems company Hilscher to develop a customisable 40nm system-on-chip (SoC) based around a combination of the ARM Cortex-A9 and R4 processor…
FPGA module for SERCOS III industrial bus
FPGA module for SERCOS III industrial bus
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Lattice Semiconductor has used its FPGA technology to develop a module for Sercos III real-time Ethernet networks.
Standalone controller IP for the Controller Area Network
Standalone controller IP for the Controller Area Network
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Digital Core Design has developed a standalone controller IP for the Controller Area Network which is commonly used in automotive and industrial applications. The DCAN core conforms to Bosch CAN…
FPGA-based prototyping tool improves speed and turnaround time
FPGA-based prototyping tool improves speed and turnaround time
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Synopsys has updated its Identify and Certify FPGA-based prototyping tools to speed up the simulation and add incremental compilation.
Altera launches industry’s first OpenCL program for FPGAs
Altera launches industry’s first OpenCL program for FPGAs
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Altera has launched a development program focused on using the Open Computing Language (OpenCL) standard for FPGAs to speed up multicore system development.
FPGA rivals continue to play ‘follow the leader’
FPGA rivals continue to play ‘follow the leader’
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Xilinx has announced it is now shipping the Virtex-7 2000T, which uses a stacked silicon approach to create a device with 6.8 billion transistors. It shatters Altera’s previous title of…
ON Semiconductor teams with Arrow Electronics to offer reference designs for VITA image sensors based on Cyclone FPGA
ON Semiconductor teams with Arrow Electronics to offer reference designs for VITA image sensors based on Cyclone FPGA
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ON Semiconductor and its global distributor Arrow Electronics have introduced new reference designs for a wide variety of image sensor applications.
Multicore takes a new direction
Multicore takes a new direction
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With the release of ARM's Cortex-A7 MPCore it addresses two vital aspects of embedded systems; power and performance. However, the addition of its 'big.LITTLE’ concept may indicate it’s not quite…
HDL-based FPGA design and simulation solution
HDL-based FPGA design and simulation solution
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Aldec announced the immediate availability of Active-HDL version 9.1, an HDL-based FPGA design and simulation solution that supports the newest FPGA devices available from all leading FPGA vendors. The high-performance,…
FPGA rivals continue to play ‘follow the leader’
FPGA rivals continue to play ‘follow the leader’
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Xilinx has announced it is now shipping the Virtex-7 2000T, which uses a stacked silicon approach to create a device with 6.8 billion transistors. It shatters Altera’s previous title of…
Full HD video analytics on an FPGA
Full HD video analytics on an FPGA
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Altera and Eutecus have announced what they believe is the world's first 1080p/30fps video analytics solution on an FPGA. Altera says the single-chip solution provides a new level of video…
Collateral damage from Intel’s DTV decision
Collateral damage from Intel’s DTV decision
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So, who are the unsuspecting victims of Intel Corp.'s plans, publicly disclosed this week, to “wind down” its digital TV SoC business? Rick Doherty, co-founder and director of Envisioneering Group,…
Altera embeds Synopsys’ virtual prototyping technology in new ARM-based SoC FPGA offering
Altera embeds Synopsys’ virtual prototyping technology in new ARM-based SoC FPGA offering
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Synopsys announced the use of its comprehensive and proven Virtual Prototyping Solution in Altera Corporation's newly announced SoC FPGA Virtual Target software development platform. The Virtual Target enables engineers to…
Altera announces its answer to Zynq
Altera announces its answer to Zynq
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Just over half a year after Xilinx announced its FPGA with integrated dual ARM Cortex-A9 product line, Zynq, Altera has revealed details of its own version of an extensible platform…
R&D group begins TSV chip pilot production
R&D group begins TSV chip pilot production
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All Silicon System Integration Dresden (ASSID), a microelectronic wafer-level packaging and system integration center backed by the government of the German state Saxony and operated by the Fraunhofer IZM Institute,…
IMEC, Panasonic show reconfigurable area win
IMEC, Panasonic show reconfigurable area win
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Reconfigurable logic, often touted as a nice-to-have feature to help cope with late-changing standards and to improve time-to-market, is starting to show clear advantages in area efficiency over conventional ASIC…
Analyst sees 1% chip market growth for 2011
Analyst sees 1% chip market growth for 2011
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Malcolm Penn, founder and principal analyst with market analysis company Future Horizons (Sevenoaks, England), now sees 2011 as essentially a flat year compared with 2010 for the global chip market.
Startup offers embedded memory IP
Startup offers embedded memory IP
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Memoir Systems Inc. is a 2009 startup company that has begun offering embedded memory intellectual property aimed at SoCs being designed for the networking and multicore processor markets.


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