FPGAs

Since their inception approximately three years ago, Lattice Semiconductor has shipped more than 250m iCE series devices. The iCE series has been extremely popular in the growing mobile device markets, particularly for consumer applications; the latest member of the family - the iCE40 Ultra FPGA - is shipping in high volume as mobile device manufacturers take advantage of the reduced power and size of these programmable devices.

Enabling a new class of always-on applications using FPGAs. By Subra Chandramouli, Director, Consumer Segment Marketing, Lattice Semiconductor.

To allow easy evaluation and design for its family of MachXO3L instant-on, non-volatile FPGAs, Lattice Semiconductor has released the MachXO3L Starter Kit. Product developers can immediately deploy programmable bridging and I/O expansion with breakthrough I/O density, at Lattice's lowest cost per I/O offering.

A dual 3A/single 6A step-down DC/DC power module, which simplifies power supply design for FPGAs, ASICs, MPUs and DSPs, has been introduced by Intersil. The ISL8203M measures 9.0x6.5x1.83mm and features an efficiency of 95%, providing power system designers with a high performance, easy to use solution for their low power, low voltage applications.

NEC has now begun the commercial production phase of its iPASOLINK microwave communication equipment for mobile networks, which utilises Toshiba’s FFSA (Fit Fast Structured Array) custom LSI solution. Toshiba’s solution, which employs licensed technology from BaySand, meets NEC's performance, power and time-to-market requirements. 

  An FPGA Mezzanine Card (FMC), which is both an ADC and a DAC, has been introduced by VadaTech. Compliant to the VITA 57 specification, the FMC525 meets Radar, LTE/Broadband communications systems, ATE, physics and video/broadcast requirements.

Keysight Technologies has unveiled an updated version of its U5340A FPGA development kit. The new version allows for expanded deployment of on board IP signal processing across the full range of Keysight PCIe high-speed digitisers and the 12-bit AXIe 8-channel wideband digital receiver/digitiser.

Microsemi's SmartFusion2 SoC FPGA and IGLOO2 FPGA now feature Physically Unclonable Function (PUF) technology licensed from Intrinsic-ID, providing system designers with a more secure solution for developing IoT applications. According to Microsemi, its SmartFusion2 SoC FPGA and IGLOO2 FPGA are the industry’s first and only FPGAs to integrate hardened PUF technology. The company implemented the technology using on-chip SRAM, which allo...

Altera has announced that its SoC FPGAs have been selected for use in Audi’s Advanced Driver Assistance System (ADAS) targeted for mass production. Audi and Austrian high-tech company TTTech chose the Altera Cyclone V SoC FPGA for its ability to increase system performance and enable the differentiated features Audi requires for piloted driving and parking.

Supporting multiple high-speed transmission interface standards and accelerating time-to-market with economical SERDES enhanced FPGAs. By Benny Ma, Applications Engineer, Lattice Semiconductor.