FPGAs
Xilinx FPGAs reduce the size of Maxim's products by 30%
It has been announced that Maxim Integrated Products will be the lead supplier of three of Xilinx's FPGA reference designs. Maxim will demonstrate the Xilinx Kintex UltraScale FPGA KCU105 Evaluation Kit at X-Fest 2014. This is a series of free, day-long technical training seminars cohosted by Xilinx and Avnet. Hosted in 37 locations throughout Asia, Europe, North America and Japan, the event opened on the 9th of...
Full Mil Temp compliance planned for FPGA & SoC family
Plans for a military temperature (Mil Temp) qualification for Altera's 20nm Arria 10 FPGAs and SoCs has been announced. The devices will be qualified for extreme temperature environments (-55C to 125C ambient), alongside the production of guidelines on speed grades, protocols, and external memory interfaces best suited to specific applications.
FPGAs are the first to complete NSA's IAD SIG document
The SmartFusion2 SoC FPGA and IGLOO2 FPGA, manufactured by Microsemi, has completed the NSA's IAD (Information Assurance Directorate) SIG (Secure Implementation Guidelines) document. These families, the company claims, are the only FPGAs to have completed this.
Rugged FPGA based offers flexible I/O interfacing options
A rugged DSP and FPGA based card from CommAgility is now shipping. The VPX-D16A4, the company's first board in the compact VITA 65, 3U OpenVPX form factor, features a wide operating temperature range of -40-+70°C. The card is based on Texas Instrument's (TI) TCI6638K2K KeyStone-based SoC and TMS320C6678 SoC, both of which contain 16 C66x DSP cores and four ARM Cortex-A15 cores.
Pervasive connectivity is changing the FPGA landscape
The emergence of pervasive connectivity - and the resultant volumes of data that creates - could be changing the landscape for embedded electronics, meaning the old mandate of ‘faster, smaller, cheaper’ may soon just read ‘faster’. Philip Ling, Editor, ES Design magazine, reports.
Reference design simplifies optical Ethernet implementation
Enabling engineers to quickly implement optical Ethernet designs up to 100Gbps, Lattice Semiconductor has released a reference design for IEEE 802.3 Management Data Input/Output (MDIO) interface controllers. RD1194 allows designers to implement a simple Wishbone user logic interface that enables the user to access the PHY registers.
Patent license secured to boost DPA-resistant FPGAs
A patent license extension, for the secure booting of third-party processors and FPGAs, has been obtained by Microsemi for its Differential Power Analysis (DPA). The DPA license has been obtained from the Cryptography Research division of Rambus, and allows Microsemi to use the Cryptography Research portfolio of patented breakthrough DPA countermeasures.
FPGAs deliver highest performance in the smallest package
The newest member of the ECP5 family, Lattice Semiconductor has announced that the LFE5UM-85 delivers the highest performance in the family in the same packages as smaller devices. This enables engineers to design prototypes with the best performance for convenience and flexibility, then optimise for cost in a lower density device when they go to production.
FPGAs enhance differentiating features for mobiles
Enabling mobile consumer device manufacturers to quickly implement differentiating features, Lattice Semiconductor has introduced the iCE40 Ultra FPGA family. The company claims that it delivers unsurpassed integration of emerging infrared remote, barcode, touch, user identification and pedometer functions with sufficient customisation capabilities.
Custom-made motor control
How FPGA technology is being used in industrial applications to provide performance with flexibility, and to lower system costs. By Stefano Zammattio, Altera.