FPGAs
Software infuses AI into high-performance computing
Simplifying the infusion of AI into high-performance computing is the purpose of Arrow Electronics using a new software platform ready to run on the BittWare 385A FPGA accelerator card. Arrow’s engineering team has created ready-to-use software modules in OpenCL that help users build custom engines for compute-intensive workloads in applications such as image processing and facial recognition.
Competition set to attract savvy FPGA developers
A competition to find the most innovative and imaginative FPGA-based designs in Europe has been launched by Arrow Electronics. To encourage a wide participation, Arrow is offering a development board free-of-charge to each entrant who submits a verified project plan.
Intel ships first 10nm Agilex FPGAs
Intel today announced that it has begun shipments of the first Intel Agilex field programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) to early access program customers. Participants in the early access program include Colorado Engineering, Inc., Mantaro Networks, Microsoft and Silicom. These customers are using Agilex FPGAs to develop advanced solutions for networking, 5G and accelerated data analytics.
Large FPGA featuring nine million system logic cells
Xilinx has announced the expansion of its 16nm Virtex UltraScale+ family to now include what is reported to be the world’s largest FPGA, the Virtex UltraScale+ VU19P. With 35 billion transistors, the VU19P provides a high logic density and I/O count on a single device, enabling emulation and prototyping of tomorrow’s most advanced ASIC and SoC technologies, as well as test, measurement, compute, networking, aerospace and defence-relat...
6U VPX UltraScale+ FPGA carrier board with dual FMC+ sites
VadaTech has announced the VPX580 rugged DSP blade. The VPX580 is a 6U VPX board based on Xilinx UltraScale+ XCZU19EG MPSoC FPGA with dual FMC+ sites, coupling real-time processing capability with high speed I/O and making it suitable for radar, signal intelligence and image processing applications.
Expanding low power FPGA video and image processing solutions
Microchip, via its Microsemi subsidiary, has announced its Smart Embedded Vision initiative that provides solutions for designing intelligent machine vision systems with Microchip’s low power PolarFire Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs). With the recent announcement, Microchip extends its high resolution smart embedded vision FPGA offerings with new enhanced high speed imaging interfaces, an Intellectual Property (IP) bun...
FPGA server offers twice the typical density
BittWare, a Molex company, has introduced the TeraBox 1400B server supporting four double-width FPGA boards in a 1U high rackmount chassis. Fitted with BittWare XUP-VV8 boards, this server offers twice the FPGA and network density of a standard eight-board, 4U server.
FPGA family beefs up security functions
SecureFPGA is the latest product line from GOWIN Semiconductor, a China-based programmable logic company. It is targeted at endpoint and server management applications utilising built-in security functions to eliminate the rise of security attacks and breaches in edge computing.
ECP FPGA family for video capture devices
Lattice Semiconductor has announced that Nanjing Magewell Electronics has selected the Lattice ECP FPGA family to enable video processing in multiple Magewell USB 3.0 video capture devices, including the USB Capture Plus series. Using Lattice ECP FPGAs helps Magewell produce devices with lower power consumption and higher performance.
VITA 57.4 module with 12 TX/RX Fibre MTP/MPO
Manufacturer of integrated systems and embedded boards, VadaTech, has announces the FMC258. The FMC258 is an FPGA Mezzanine Module per VITA 57.4 (FMC+) specification. It has a single Board-Mount Optical Assembly, providing 12 channel full-duplex transceivers with Clock Data Recovery (CDR) and front-panel Fibre I/O via MTP/MPO.