FPGAs

BittWare has collaborated with nCk Research, an innovative supplier of FPGA IP, to announce a 100G Network Packet Broker with PCAP Filtering at the RSA Conference. Implemented on BittWare's XUSP3S PCIe board featuring Xilinx's UltraScale Virtex FPGA, a live demo (on booth S326) of an application board showcases bi-directional 100G brokering/intercept with filtering at full line rate.

Lattice Semiconductor announced availability of an updated version of its Lattice Diamond design tool suite, version 3.7. It includes support for more Lattice devices as well as performance improvements to help customers design solutions based on Lattice FPGAs with the lowest possible size, power consumption and cost. Lattice Diamond design software is a complete suite of FPGA tools with an easy-to-use interface, efficient design flow, super...

Lattice Semiconductor Corporation has announced an expansion of the company’s ECP5 family of low power, small form factor connectivity and acceleration FPGAs. These new additions are pin compatible with ECP5 FPGAs and enable OEMs to seamlessly update their designs to meet evolving interface requirements in the industrial, communications and consumer markets.

VadaTech has announced the AMC595, an Advanced Mezzanine Card or AdvancedMC (AMC) based on the Xilinx Virtex UltraScale XCVU440 FPGA, arguably the highest performance FPGA available today. Aimed at compute-intensive applications such as large scale ASIC prototyping and emulation, the AMC595 builds on VadaTech’s successful portfolio of products based on Xilinx UltraScale FPGAs.

Pentek has announced the latest member of its highly popular Cobalt family of high-speed data converter XMC FPGA modules: the 4-channel Cobalt Model 71664, is a 200 MHz 16-bit A/D with programmable digital down converter, based on the Xilinx Virtex-6 FPGA. The Model 71664 is the first Pentek product to include an IP engine for the VITA 49 Radio Transport (VRT) protocol.

Microsemi Corporation has announced qualification of its AEC-Q100 grade 1 automotive-grade FPGAs. In addition to outlining the criterion for electronic components to ensure that end systems meet automotive reliability levels, the grade 1 industry standard specification validates Microsemi’s IGLOO2 FPGAs as offering the highest junction temperature in its class―up to an impressive 125º ambient (135ºC junction).

The recent SC15 conference held in Austin, Texas, saw a new collaboration launched between board supplier, BittWare, and Xilinx, plus the availability of the first Xilinx-based board.

Altera Corporation has announced the availability of the Altera Functional Safety Lockstep solution for the Nios II embedded processor, a solution that reduces risk in design cycles and helps system designers simplify certification for industrial and automotive safety applications. The joint Altera and YOGITECH lockstep solution is built using Altera FPGAs, SoCs, and certified tool flows, along with IP cores from YOGITECH, a functional safety lea...

Programmable logic technology from Altera Corporation is now in place inside a new, advanced server cluster at the Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC) at The University Texas at Austin, which seeks to help researchers and academia to run complex algorithmic-based research. Microsoft Research shared more about the server cluster becoming available for research use at TACC, in a blog post.

Accelerating time-to-market and lowering total cost of ownership, Microsemi and TRINAMIC Motion Control have announced the availability of a plugfest-tested EtherCAT IP and chip solution for SmartFusion2 SoC FPGAs. The solution offers scalability, low power, security and TRINAMIC’s customisation and integration services for Microsemi’s FPGAs.