FPGAs
Mi-V ecosystem accelerates adoption of RISC-V
Microsemi has announced the company’s new Mi-V ecosystem with industry leaders, to increase adoption of its RISC-V soft CPU product family. The announcement comes as the company also introduces Mi-V RV32IMA and additional FPGA-based soft CPU solutions ideally suited for designs utilising RISC-V open ISAs.
Xilinx chosen for next-gen FPGA cloud acceleration
At the Computing Conference, Xilinx announced that Alibaba Cloud, the cloud computing arm of Alibaba Group, has chosen Xilinx for next-gen FPGA acceleration in their public cloud. As the largest cloud provider in China, Alibaba Cloud offers high-performance, elastic computing power to over two million customers. Based on Xilinx FPGAs, the new 'F2' instances give Alibaba Cloud customers access to acceleration for data analytics, genomics...
Low-power FPGAs offer high security for connected machines
The PolarFire FPGAs from Microsemi are now in stock at Solid State Supplies. PolarFire is a low power cost-optimised FPGA that offers a significant reduction in power over equivalent SRAM FPGAs while addressing specific market needs. The architecture and process optimised PolarFire FPGA family offers between 100k and 500k logic elements (LEs) while high performance 12.7Gbps transceivers deliver small physical size and requires around 50% less pow...
FPGA-based acceleration maximises performance of data centres
Intel has announced a comprehensive hardware and software platform solution to enable faster deployment of customised field programmable gate array (FPGA)-based acceleration of networking, storage and computing workloads. Complex data-intensive applications in the areas of genomics, finance, industry 4.0 and other disciplines are pushing the boundaries of data centre capabilities.
Radiation-tolerant FPGAs for easier flight system integration
Provider of semiconductor solutions differentiated by power, security, reliability and performance, Microsemi, has announced its RTG4 high-speed signal processing radiation-tolerant field programmable gate array (FPGA) engineering samples in a ceramic quad flat pack (CQFP) package are now available.
SecureRF partners with Intel for future-proof FPGA security
To provide engineers with quantum-resistant authentication and data protection solutions, SecureRF and Intel are collaborating for Intel FPGA-based Internet of Things (IoT) projects.
Debug tool offers FPGA integration
Manufacturer of microprocessor development tools, Lauterbach, has announced that it has added an additional integration to its popular TRACE32 debug tool. The new integration allows the Xilinx Vivado Design Suite to share the Lauterbach JTAG connection to Zynq-7000 or Zynq UltraScale+ SoCs.
FPGA chosen to power Huawei accelerated cloud server
Global ICT solutions provider, Xilinx, announced at HUAWEI CONNECT 2017 that Huawei has chosen high performance Virtex UltraScale+ FPGAs to power their first FP1 instance as part of a new accelerated cloud service. The Huawei FPGA Accelerated Cloud Server (FACS) is a platform that enables users to develop, deploy and publish new FPGA-based services and applications on Huawei Public Cloud.
FPGAs now interoperate with wideband RF transceiver
Microsemi Corporation has announced its cost-optimised, low power, mid-range PolarFire field programmable gate array (FPGA) is now interoperable with Analog Devices’ AD9371 wideband integrated radio frequency (RF) transceiver via a JESD204B interface. The AD9371 offers dual channel transmitters and receivers, integrated synthesisers and digital signal processing functions, which allows customers to utilise Microsemi’s PolarFire F...
Programmable devices strengthens distributor linecard
Xilinx All Programmable Devices have been added to the Premier Farnell product offering worldwide. The products are making inroads into a wide range of markets including military, aerospace and defence, industrial and commercial; inside hardware ranging from edge devices in the IoT to massive data servers; and support what can be an almost endless list of functions.