FPGAs
Prototyping platform reduces design bring-up time by 80%
Cadence Design Systems has announced the new Protium S1 FPGA-based prototyping platform, which incorporates implementation algorithms to boost engineering productivity. The Protium S1 platform provides front-end congruency with the Cadence Palladium Z1 Enterprise Emulation Platform, thereby delivering 80% faster design bring-up on average when compared to typical FPGA prototyping approaches.
DC/DC converters provide 94% efficiency
Murata has expanded its OKD series of Digital PoL DC/DC converters by launching the 90A/162W OKDx-T/90 series from Murata Power Solutions. This is the highest current-rated product in the OKD series, which already provides solutions from 6-60A. The OKDx-T/90 series is suited for FPGA and processor applications.
FPGA features low power estimator
The availability of Microsemi's cost-optimised PolarFire Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) product family has been announced. It delivers low power at mid-range densities with 12.7Gbps Serialiser/Deserialiser (SerDes) transceivers as well as security and reliability.
Company uses Intel's FPGAs to improve video quality
The need to connect anywhere and anyplace is being driven by mobile workers. Soon they’ll do so over high-quality 4K and, shortly following, 8K connections. To support this change in work environments, business audio visual systems are becoming truly unified, connecting PCs, to video conferencing systems and projectors, to employee 'bring your own' personal electronics.
14-bit digitiser provides 10GS/s sampling rate
A digitiser that offers a combination of 14-bits vertical resolution and a sampling rate of up to 10GS/s has been launched by SP Devices, the ADQ7. Following the success of SP Devices’ ADQ14 digitiser, the ADQ7 has been optimised to provide a higher sampling rate, larger Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA), increased memory and data transfer rate and a higher bandwidth analogue front-end.
Performance breakthrough for deep learning with Intel FPGAs
Intel and ZTE have worked together to reach a new benchmark in deep learning and convolutional neural networks (CNN). The technology is what many companies in Internet search and AI are trying to advance, and includes picture search and matching, as one example. “Perception, such as recognising a face in an image, is one of the essential goals of the ZTE 5G System,” said Duan Xiangyang, vice president of the ZTE Wi...
Software platform simplifies data acquisition
A software platform for Data Acquisition (DAQ) and control applications has been introduced, running on Orange Tree Technologies' Zest series of USB and Gigabit Ethernet boards. Provided free of charge to Orange Tree customers, ZestDAQ consists of multiple FPGA logic cores designed to make the buffering, formatting and transfer of data between peripherals or sensors and a host PC as straightforward as possible.
FPGA module for demanding sensor processing applications
An FPGA module based on the Virtex UltraScale XCVU440 FPGA has been announced by VadaTech. The AMC596 is the largest of the UltraScale FPGAs, here supported by 8GB of 64-bit wide DDR4 and an on board Power PC P2040.
FPGAs increase memory and DSP for always-on IoT design
The next stage in the iCE40 FPGA family, Lattice Semiconductor has introduced the iCE40 UltraPlus, with enhanced memory and DSP functionality to accelerate development of smartphones and IoT edge devices.
FPGA PCIe card with 27Gb/s full duplex aggregate IO
Sundance announced the launch of its high-performance accelerator card based on the Xilinx XCVU190-2FLGC2104E FPGA. As an option the board can be fitted with lower cost FPGAs in the family, namely XCVU095, XCVU125, and XCVU160. This board is designed for superior data throughput leveraging various industry-standard interfaces, including 8 lanes of PCIe Gen 3, PCIe104 expansion connectors, and CFP4 optical networking.