FPGAs

FPGA technology, based on Intel’s 14nm Tri-Gate process, has been successfully demonstrated by Altera. The 14nm-based FPGA test chips incorporate key IP components – transceivers, mixed-signal IP and digital logic – used in Stratix 10 FPGAs and SoCs.

Altera is industry's first programmable logic company to integrate hardened IEEE 754-compliant, floating-point operators in an FPGA, delivering unparallelled levels of DSP performance, designer productivity and logic efficiency. The hardened floating point DSP blocks are integrated in Altera’s 20nm Arria 10 FPGAs and SoCs, as well as 14nm Stratix 10 FPGAs and SoCs.

Programming memory on the manufacturing line after the devices have been soldered to a circuit board must be accomplished quickly to keep pace with the assembly process. Unfortunately, the capacity of flash has got so large and the amount of data being programmed into them so extensive that the process has slowed considerably.

Reducing development risk and quickly overcoming time-to-market challenges, the ECP5 FPGA family claims that it 'breaks the rules' of conventional FPGA approaches to deliver a SERDES-based solution for designers. The device family, from Lattice Semiconductor, rapidly add features and functions to complement those delivered by ASICs and ASSPs. The devices are designed for small-cell, microserver, broadband access, industrial video a...

Simplifying the design of point-of-load power solutions, a power conversion solution has been announced by Altera. Comprising a monolithic 40A driver plus synchronous MOSFET powertrain, the solution is optimised to meet the core requirements of Altera's high-performance Stratix V, Arria 10, and Stratix 10 FPGAs and SoCs.

The XSG AC Motor Control (XSG = Xilinx System Generator) Library software, from dSpace, aims to develop  control systems for electric drives. The library enables engineers to program Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGA) for use in control tasks with dSPACE MicroAutoBox II and SCALEXIO systems, as well as modular dSPACE hardware.

  Based on Xilinx All Programmable FPGAs, VadaTech announces a full suite of Advanced Mezzanine Card (AMC) modules. These single-width AMCs are available in versions that include Virtex-5, Virtex-6, Artix-7, Kintex-7 and Virtex-7 FPGAs, as well as Zynq All Programmable SoCs, from Xilinx.

Delivering significant space and weight savings to portable consumer electronic products, such as phones and tablets, Diodes Incorporated introduce two families of single-gate logic parts in one of the world’s smallest packages, DFN0808. The devices feature a 0.8mm square footprint and an off-board height of 0.35mm.

Designed as an integrated power solution for picocell and femtocell base stations, portable and handheld devices requiring a compact and integrated power solution, the ADP505x PMICs from Analog Devices target compact, high density power solutions for RF agile radio and FPGA/processor-based applications.

Two SoftSilicon FPGA platforms, which provide optical equipment manufacturers with standards-based OTN solutions beyond 100 Gigabit/s (B100G), has been announced by Altera. The platforms feature an FPGA in combination with a fully integrated IP solution that reduces design time, integration processes and test phases, allowing customers to focus more on value-add technology differentiation.