FPGAs
FPGAs accelerate servers at Texas Advanced Computing Centre
Programmable logic technology from Altera Corporation is now in place inside a new, advanced server cluster at the Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC) at The University Texas at Austin, which seeks to help researchers and academia to run complex algorithmic-based research. Microsoft Research shared more about the server cluster becoming available for research use at TACC, in a blog post.
EtherCAT slave controller for SmartFusion2 FPGAs
Accelerating time-to-market and lowering total cost of ownership, Microsemi and TRINAMIC Motion Control have announced the availability of a plugfest-tested EtherCAT IP and chip solution for SmartFusion2 SoC FPGAs. The solution offers scalability, low power, security and TRINAMIC’s customisation and integration services for Microsemi’s FPGAs.
Lattice's FPGA enables industrial USB 3.0 camera
Lattice Semiconductor announced that its MachXO3 FPGA and USB 3.0 sensor bridge reference design are integrated in a USB 3.0 camera module from Leopard Imaging. The MachXO3 FPGA and the USB 3.0 sensor bridge reference design work together to convert the subLVDS video signal from the image sensor used in the module to a parallel format that can interface with the camera’s USB 3.0 controller.
FPGAs support 900Mb/s per lane operation for MIPI D-PHY interfaces
Enabled by the latest Diamond 3.6 design tool suite software update, Lattice Semiconductor's MachXO3 FPGAs support 900Mb/s per lane operation for MIPI D-PHY interfaces. The MachXO3 devices can now be used to bridge a wide variety of image sensors & displays with MIPI D-PHY, CSI-2 or DSI interfaces at speeds of up to 900Mb/s.
FPGA cores feature cryptographic countermeasures
Microsemi Corporation and The Athena Group have announced a comprehensive portfolio of IP cores with state-of-the-art Side Channel Analysis (SCA) and Differential Power Analysis (DPA) countermeasures. The recent portfolio, based on Athena's TeraFire cryptographic microprocessor family, is designed for users of Microsemi's SmartFusion2 SoC FPGAs and IGLOO2 FPGAs.
PUF key storage tightens FPGA security
Altera and Intrinsic-ID have announced a collaboration on the integration of advanced security solutions into Altera’s Stratix 10 FPGAs and SoCs. Physical Unclonable Function (PUF)-based key storage is a requirement for many defence and infrastructure applications today to secure and bind software to hardware functions and prevent the cloning of systems.
MOSFET rapidly discharges FPGA power rail capacitors
The DMN3027LFG 30V N-channel MOSFET introduced by Diodes Incorporated is designed as a switch to rapidly and safely discharge large bulk capacitors used on FPGA power rails. The latest FPGAs found in telecomms, servers and data centres have multiple power rails that need to be correctly sequenced to safely power these systems up and down.
Using FPGAs to minimise data centre power consumption
“In 2013, U.S. data centres consumed an estimated 91bn kilowatt-hours of electricity - enough electricity to power all the households in New York City twice over - and are on-track to reach 140bn kilowatt-hours by 2020.” – National Resources Defense Council Report.
Secure SoC FPGA offers industrial Ethernet protocol conversion
Microsemi and HMS Industrial Networks have announced the availability of HMS’s Anybus CompactCom 40-series products for industrial Ethernet solutions based on Microsemi’s SmartFusion 2 SoC FPGA. The highly secure device offers customers lower total cost of ownership and accelerated time-to-market with low power and secure industrial Ethernet protocol conversion solutions on a single SmartFusion2 FPGA platform.
FPGA logic architecture features Block RAM & DSP cores
Flex Logix has announced the extension of its core FPGA logic architecture to include Block RAM (BRAM) and DSP cores. Both BRAM and DSP are popular extensions found in traditional stand-alone FPGA products. The addition of low-latency memory and signal processing capabilities significantly increases the range of applications addressed by the company’s EFLX embedded FPGA-in-SoC architecture.