FPGAs
The industry’s first radiation-tolerant FPGA kit
Microsemi has announced the RTG4 development kit with its recently announced RTG4 PROTO FPGAs. Hailed as the industry’s first radiation-tolerant FPGA kit providing space designers a comprehensive evaluation and design platform, it is suited for the development of applications such as data transmission, serial connectivity, bus interface and high speed designs, using the company’s RTG4 radiation-tolerant high-speed FPGAs.
Development kit saves time and simplifies integration
The TERATEC 2016 Forum, held today at the Ecole Polytechnique in France, has seen BittWare announce the latest release of its FPGA Development Kit (FDK) with support for Arria 10 FPGA boards.
Sundance adds Xilinx’s Kintex UltraScale FPGA
Sundance Multiprocessor Technology Ltd., an established supplier and manufacturer of embedded modules, has announced that it has integrated Xilinx’s smallest Kintex UltraScale FPGA with its EMC2-family of embedded boards for the “OneBank” PC/104-compatible format.
Lower prototyping costs for high-speed rad-tolerant FPGAs
Designed to enable prototyping of space systems, Microsemi has announced the availability of its RTG4 PROTO FPGAs. The RTG4 PROTO FPGAs enable lower cost prototyping and design validation activities for the latest radiation-tolerant high-speed FPGAs and are also claimed to be the only reprogrammable prototyping solution of their kind providing the same timing and power characteristics as space flight units.
Accelerate design for next-gen, high-capacity FPGAs
Altera, now part of Intel, has announced the Quartus Prime Pro design software, which further accelerates FPGA design performance and design team productivity. The software is architected to support the next-gen high capacity, highly integrated FPGAs from Intel, which will drive innovation across the cloud, data centre, IoT and the networks that connect them.
FPGA board features support for up to 256GB of DDR4
BittWare has announced at The 24th IEEE International Symposium on Field-Programmable Custom Computing Machines the release of a COTS PCIe board based on the industry's highest bandwidth 20nm FPGA, the Xilinx UltraScale VU190. Called the XUSP3R, the 3/4-length PCIe board offers up to four Gen3 x8 PCIe interfaces, along with four front panel QSFP28 cages, supporting 16 lanes of 25Gbps or 4 lanes of 100Gbps - including 100 GbE.
Smoothing the path to 50 and 100GbE
The recent FCCM 2016 Symposium held in Washington, saw Bittware and Atomic Rules introduce a UDP Offload Engine (UOE) IP core. A live demo running on BittWare’s XUSP3S PCIe board, showcased the UOE IP core operating at 25GbE with no packet loss.
FPGAs offer a 35% increase in LUTs & 15% more I/Os
Expanding its MachXO3 family of FPGAs, Lattice Semiconductor has announced the MachXO3L-9400 and MachXO3LF-9400 devices available in multiple packages. Built in response to customer demand, these devices bring expanded I/O and logic support for control PLD applications, while increased on-chip memory improves picture clarity for low cost video bridging in large monitor applications.
FPGA-based system-on-module for digital signal processing
Microsemi and Solectrix announced the availability of Solectrix’s SXoM-SF2, a high performance, low power, secure and ultra-compact DSP SOM solution based on Microsemi’s SmartFusion2 SoC FPGA devices. SXoM-SF2 SOM, with a SmartFusion2 SoC FPGA and DDR3 memory, enables numerous higher performance applications to be built quickly— significantly reducing customers’ time to market.
CAPI enabled FPGA accelerator cards suit POWER8 processors
BittWare has announced an OpenPOWER CAPI Developer's Kit for its Xilinx FPGA-enabled accelerator cards. Providing a fast, efficient way to connect the Xilinx All Programmable FPGA to a CAPI-enabled IBM POWER8 system, the developer's kit includes the FPGA accelerator card, IBM Power Service Layer (PSL) IP to provide the connection to the POWER8 chip, CAPI host support library, and an example CAPI design.