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Lattice expands ECP3 family in three directions

By Loring Wirbel January 24, 2012

Lattice expands its ECP3 family with tiny packages, faster speed, and lower power.

Kane Modules Meld Spartan-6 with TI, ADI Varieties of DSP

By Loring Wirbel January 20, 2012

Kane Computing tightens FPGA links with DSP by linking D.module and VITA 57 FMC form factors.

Pentek Debuts Onyx SDR Module Family Based on Virtex-7

By Loring Wirbel January 18, 2012

Pentek launches the first of its Onyx family of software-defined radio modules, using the Xilinx Virtex-7 for signal processing.

Xilinx Wins China Coverage on Growing Opportunities

By Loring Wirbel January 13, 2012

Peoples Daily Online gives primary coverage to the FPGA market, interviewing Xilinx APAC Director Vincent Tong.

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Altera's 28-nm FPGA Portfolio Continues to Receive Industry Accolades

January 23, 2012

Altera Corporation today announced its 28-nm portfolio has received recognition from two prestigious electronic trade publications.

Altera showcases optical fpga prototype

January 23, 2012

Altera has been demonstrating a prototype fpga with optical interfaces to potential customers, according to Gazettabyte. The technology demonstrator uses 12 x 10Gbit/s parallel optical interfaces supplied by Avago Technologies.

Wall Street Shopping for Fast FPGAs

January 23, 2012

Xilinx Virtex-7 and Altera Stratix V FPGAs are becoming hot commodities for financial trading systems trying to shave fractions of a second off the time to process a trade and reap millions in profits.

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Meeting the Low Power Imperative at 28 nm

Whether you want to reduce your carbon footprint, reduce operating costs, or just be more energy efficient, Altera’s 28-nm devices enable system designers to increase their control over power consumption in today’s increasingly power-sensitive applications.

PRODUCT BRIEF: MachXO2 Consumer Applications

The MachXO2™ family of non-volatile infinitely reconfigurable Programmable Logic Devices (PLDs) is designed for low-power consumer applications such as smart phones, GPS devices and PDAs. Combining an optimized look-up table (LUT) architecture with 65-nm embedded Flash process technology, MachXO2 devices provide a flexible “do-it-all” solution for consumer designs.

DATA SHEET: MachXO2 Family

The MachXO2 family of ultra low power, instant-on, non-volatile PLDs has six devices with densities ranging from 256 to 6864 Look-Up Tables (LUTs). In addition to LUT-based, low-cost programmable logic these devices feature Embedded Block RAM (EBR), Distributed RAM, User Flash Memory (UFM), Phase Locked Loops (PLLs), preengineered source synchronous I/O support, advanced configuration support including dual-boot capability and hardened versions of commonly used functions such as SPI controller, I2C controller and timer/counter. These features allow these devices to be used in low cost, high volume consumer and system applications.

Tips and Techniques for 28-nm Design Optimization

Timing closure is of critical importance in high-speed FPGA designs. This white paper focuses on the challenges that affect timing closure and discusses how simple HDL changes can help resolve timing issues and reduce the time needed to achieve timing closure.

Using External Memory Interfaces to Achieve Efficient High-Speed Memory Solutions

Because a fast and robust memory interface is crucial for many designers, Altera provides the fastest, most efficient, and lowest latency memory controllers, which allow designers to work with today’s higher speed memories quickly and easily. Designing with Arria V^® FPGAs not only helps to make designs successful but also ensures that implementation is fast and easy.

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Optimizing 10-Gbps Backplane Performance on Stratix V FPGAs

With Altera’s Transceiver Signal Integrity Development Kit, Stratix® V GX Edition and the Transceiver Toolkit tool in Quartus® II software, you can easily and efficiently evaluate the performance of your high-speed serial transceivers.

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