FPGAs

Solid State Supplies says it has positioned itself as the prominent source in the UK for the latest technology from Microsemi, as the semiconductor manufacturer further strengthens its supply chain by closer cooperation with key channel partners. The strategy will see the UK market served more effectively.

Designed for bringing COTS PCIe systems up to date with the latest FPGAs, or for integrating high-end FMCs, VadaTech has launched three FMC carriers in the PCI Express form factor. The PCI516, PCI592 and PCI595 cards provide direct connections to neighbouring cards, avoiding the need to stage data through the host processor, so optimising throughput and minimising latency for high-performance applications.

It has been announced by Microsemi that it has made enhancements to its SmartFusion2 SoC FPGA-based deterministic multi-axis motor control solution, expanding its features to support applications using encoder, Hall sensor, CAN bus and induction motors.

Microsemi has announced the RTG4 development kit with its recently announced RTG4 PROTO FPGAs. Hailed as the industry’s first radiation-tolerant FPGA kit providing space designers a comprehensive evaluation and design platform, it is suited for the development of applications such as data transmission, serial connectivity, bus interface and high speed designs, using the company’s RTG4 radiation-tolerant high-speed FPGAs.

The TERATEC 2016 Forum, held today at the Ecole Polytechnique in France, has seen BittWare announce the latest release of its FPGA Development Kit (FDK) with support for Arria 10 FPGA boards.

Sundance Multiprocessor Technology Ltd., an established supplier and manufacturer of embedded modules, has announced that it has integrated Xilinx’s smallest Kintex UltraScale FPGA with its EMC2-family of embedded boards for the “OneBank” PC/104-compatible format.

Designed to enable prototyping of space systems, Microsemi has announced the availability of its RTG4 PROTO FPGAs. The RTG4 PROTO FPGAs enable lower cost prototyping and design validation activities for the latest radiation-tolerant high-speed FPGAs and are also claimed to be the only reprogrammable prototyping solution of their kind providing the same timing and power characteristics as space flight units.

Altera, now part of Intel, has announced the Quartus Prime Pro design software, which further accelerates FPGA design performance and design team productivity. The software is architected to support the next-gen high capacity, highly integrated FPGAs from Intel, which will drive innovation across the cloud, data centre, IoT and the networks that connect them.

BittWare has announced at The 24th IEEE International Symposium on Field-Programmable Custom Computing Machines the release of a COTS PCIe board based on the industry's highest bandwidth 20nm FPGA, the Xilinx UltraScale VU190. Called the XUSP3R, the 3/4-length PCIe board offers up to four Gen3 x8 PCIe interfaces, along with four front panel QSFP28 cages, supporting 16 lanes of 25Gbps or 4 lanes of 100Gbps - including 100 GbE. 

The recent FCCM 2016 Symposium held in Washington, saw Bittware and Atomic Rules introduce a UDP Offload Engine (UOE) IP core. A live demo running on BittWare’s XUSP3S PCIe board, showcased the UOE IP core operating at 25GbE with no packet loss.