FPGAs
Industry’s lowest power 'Always Listening' voice recognition
Targeting the growing IoT category of devices, Lattice Semiconductor has announced the availability of human voice detection and command recognition IP for smartphones and other portable devices. Implemented in the iCE40 family of mobile FPGAs, the IPs enable manufacturers to improve the user experience of their mobile devices with voice activation capabilities and maximise battery life by minimising false wake-up triggers to the processor.
IP core enables faster development in aerospace applications
To develop networking hardware and a Fibre Channel IP core, Microsemi has partnered with New Wave Design & Verification (New Wave DV). Featuring Microsemi’s SmartFusion2 SoC FPGAs and IGLOO2 FPGAs, the PMC/XMC card and Fibre Channel IP Core enable faster development cycles for defence, aerospace, enterprise networking and storage applications which utilise Ethernet and/or Fibre Channel.
True randomness ensures secure cryptography
Barco Silex announces that Dialog Semiconductor has successfully integrated the Barco Silex BA431 IP core into its short range wireless communication ASIC. The core is a FIPS-140-2-certified Deterministic Random Bit Generator (DRBG) combined with a True Random Number Generator (TRNG), designed to enable secure cryptography.
FMC provides increased channel density & sample rates
A multichannel, high speed data converter FMC has been released by Pentek, expanding its Flexor line of FMC modules. Featuring eight 250MHz 16-bit ADCs, the Flexor Model 3316 doubles the existing channel density and boosts sample rates. Eight analogue HF or IF inputs are accepted by the front end, and transformer coupled with four Texas Instruments ADS42LB69 dual ADCs.
Newer nodes enhance FPGA performance
Sally Ward-Foxton investigates how more advanced process nodes are enabling performance enhancements in the latest-gen FPGA products.
FPGAs, IoT controllers & SoCs on display at SPS IPC Drives
Altera will demonstrate industrial solutions based on its FPGAs and SoCs at the SPS IPC Drives conference in Nuremberg, Germany, from 25th to 27th November, showing how industrial systems designers can use the devices to reduce cost and time-to-market for factory automation system designs. Altera’s stand (Hall 3, Stand 270) will feature a variety of solutions enabled by Altera Cyclone V and MAX 10 devices.
FPGAs interact with chipset to support ultra-HD
M/A-COM Technology has announced that Altera’s Stratix V FPGAs are interoperable with MACOM’s 12G-SDI chipset, enabling systems designers to create offerings that support 4k60p video. The solution supports the proposed SMTPE 12G-SDI standard for increasing video throughput by a factor of four over previous connectivity standards, and enables processing on a single card.
Starter kit enables fast FPGA safety certification
To simplify and speed up the certification and licensing process for FPGAs which must meet standards such as IEC 61508, Embedded Office has adapted its µC/OS-MPU Cert-Kit to Altera’s Cyclone V SoCs using the ARM Cortex-A9 processor, and moulded this into a starter kit.
Accelerator platform connects FPGA to POWER8 CPU
Working together through the OpenPOWER Foundation, Altera and IBM have developed the industry’s first FPGA-based acceleration platform that coherently connects an FPGA to a POWER8 CPU leveraging IBM’s Coherent Accelerator Processor Interface (CAPI). The platform was unveiled at the SuperComputing Exhibition and Conference in New Orleans (Nov 16-21).
AMC FPGA utilises SoC for high performance at low power
VadaTech has announced a FPGA in the AMC (Advanced Mezzanine Card) form factor that utilises the Xilinx Zynq all programmable SoC. The AMC518 comes in a single module, mid-size AMC that allows an FMC per VITA 57 to be plugged into the carrier.