FPGAs

Expanding its MachXO3 family of FPGAs, Lattice Semiconductor has announced the MachXO3L-9400 and MachXO3LF-9400 devices available in multiple packages. Built in response to customer demand, these devices bring expanded I/O and logic support for control PLD applications, while increased on-chip memory improves picture clarity for low cost video bridging in large monitor applications.

Microsemi and Solectrix announced the availability of Solectrix’s SXoM-SF2, a high performance, low power, secure and ultra-compact DSP SOM solution based on Microsemi’s SmartFusion2 SoC FPGA devices. SXoM-SF2 SOM, with a SmartFusion2 SoC FPGA and DDR3 memory, enables numerous higher performance applications to be built quickly— significantly reducing customers’ time to market.

BittWare has announced an OpenPOWER CAPI Developer's Kit for its Xilinx FPGA-enabled accelerator cards. Providing a fast, efficient way to connect the Xilinx All Programmable FPGA to a CAPI-enabled IBM POWER8 system, the developer's kit includes the FPGA accelerator card, IBM Power Service Layer (PSL) IP to provide the connection to the POWER8 chip, CAPI host support library, and an example CAPI design.

L2Tek has signed a deal to represent NGCodec in the UK, Ireland and Scandinavia. NGCodec is a Silicon Valley start-up developing video codec FPGA IP cores. The addition of this franchise strengthens L2Tek’s one-stop-shop where encoding, decoding and transport FPGA solutions are all offered.

Altera, now the Programmable Solutions Group (PSG) within Intel, has introduced the transceiver technology that will enable its Stratix 10 FPGAs and SoCs to support data rates up to 56Gb/s. The transceiver technology doubles the bandwidth available on a single transceiver channel, while providing equipment manufacturers scalability to build future systems.

Infineon Technologies has announced that its digital PoL DC/DC regulators with full PMBus capabilities are featured in the Kintex UltraScale development board. A key driver for the design flexibility of the board is the superior PMBus connectivity of the company's IR3806x family. Configurations can be stored in internal memory and PMBus commands allow run-time control, fault status and telemetry.

Microsemi has announced its Secured Production Programming Solution (SPPS) for its FPGAs. The solution securely generates and injects cryptographic keys and configuration bitstreams into Microsemi's FPGAs in order to prevent cloning, reverse engineering, malware insertion, leakage of sensitive IP such as trade secrets or classified data, overbuilding and other security threats.

Microsemi Corporation has announced the release of the latest version of Libero SoC, version 11.7, a comprehensive suite of FPGA design tools used with the company’s FPGA products. The latest software release includes a number of features to enhance ease-of-use and efficiency for designers, as well as advanced security and evaluation tools, for its RTG4 FPGAs, SmartFusion2 SoC FPGAs and IGLOO2 FPGAs.

Researchers have built and demonstrated a novel configurable computing device that uses a thousand times less electrical power – and can be built up to a hundred times smaller – than comparable digital floating-gate configurable devices currently in use. The new device, called the FPAA SoC, uses analog technology supported by digital components to achieve unprecedented power and size reductions.

BittWare announced at the 2016 RSA Conference the release of its Xilinx UltraScale FPGA-based board, the XUSPL4. The low-profile PCIe board offers up to two bifurcated Gen3 x8 PCIe interfaces, along with two front panel QSFP28 cages each supporting 4 lanes of 25Gbps or a single lane of 100Gbps - including 100GbE.