FPGAs

The need to connect anywhere and anyplace is being driven by mobile workers. Soon they’ll do so over high-quality 4K and, shortly following, 8K connections. To support this change in work environments, business audio visual systems are becoming truly unified, connecting PCs, to video conferencing systems and projectors, to employee 'bring your own' personal electronics.

A digitiser that offers a combination of 14-bits vertical resolution and a sampling rate of up to 10GS/s has been launched by SP Devices, the ADQ7. Following the success of SP Devices’ ADQ14 digitiser, the ADQ7 has been optimised to provide a higher sampling rate, larger Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA), increased memory and data transfer rate and a higher bandwidth analogue front-end. 

Intel and ZTE have worked together to reach a new benchmark in deep learning and convolutional neural networks (CNN). The technology is what many companies in Internet search and AI are trying to advance, and includes picture search and matching, as one example. “Perception, such as recognising a face in an image, is one of the essential goals of the ZTE 5G System,” said Duan Xiangyang, vice president of the ZTE Wi...

A software platform for Data Acquisition (DAQ) and control applications has been introduced, running on Orange Tree Technologies' Zest series of USB and Gigabit Ethernet boards. Provided free of charge to Orange Tree customers, ZestDAQ consists of multiple FPGA logic cores designed to make the buffering, formatting and transfer of data between peripherals or sensors and a host PC as straightforward as possible.

An FPGA module based on the Virtex UltraScale XCVU440 FPGA has been announced by VadaTech. The AMC596 is the largest of the UltraScale FPGAs, here supported by 8GB of 64-bit wide DDR4 and an on board Power PC P2040. 

The next stage in the iCE40 FPGA family, Lattice Semiconductor has introduced the iCE40 UltraPlus, with enhanced memory and DSP functionality to accelerate development of smartphones and IoT edge devices.

Sundance announced the launch of its high-performance accelerator card based on the Xilinx XCVU190-2FLGC2104E FPGA. As an option the board can be fitted with lower cost FPGAs in the family, namely XCVU095, XCVU125, and XCVU160. This board is designed for superior data throughput leveraging various industry-standard interfaces, including 8 lanes of PCIe Gen 3, PCIe104 expansion connectors, and CFP4 optical networking.

It has been announced that Innovative Integration has introduced a programmable PXIe module which is a vector transmitter with a 3GHz bandwidth for 5G design and testing. This is a 5.6GHz RF vector signal generator which can be programmed using C++ to create specific designs or test configurations. 

A technology suite was unveiled by Xilinx at SC16, designed to enable the world’s largest cloud service providers to rapidly develop and deploy acceleration platforms. Designed for cloud scale applications, the FPGA-powered Xilinx Reconfigurable Acceleration Stack includes libraries, framework integrations, developer boards, and OpenStack support. 

Electronic Specifier Editor Joe Bush talks to Steve Glaser, SVP Corporate Strategy & Marketing at Xilinx about the most recent changes at the company that have brought about its latest product offering.