FPGAs

A family of power management ICs targeting compact, high density power solutions for RF agile radio and FPGA/processor-based applications has been announced by Analog Devices. The ADP505x family of power management ICs was designed as an integrated power solution for picocell and femtocell base stations, portable and handheld devices as well as most applications needing a compact, integrated power solution.

As Altera’s authorized partner for EOL products, Rochester is licensed to manufacture the complex EP1810 erasable programmable logic devices (EPLDs). The EP1810 devices offer LSI density, TTL-equivalent speed, and low power consumption. EP1810 devices have 48 macrocells, 16 dedicated input pins, and 48 I/O pins.

An innovative FPGA design service company, Enclustra develops and markets highly-integrated FPGA modules and FPGA-optimised IP cores. The company provides services covering the whole range of FPGA-based system development, including high-speed hardware, embedded software, specification and implementation and prototype production. Visit Enclustra at Embedded World 2014, Hall 4A, Booth 111.

As a result of their strategic partnership, Altera and Wind River have jointly announced that they have developed and deployed tools and solutions for Altera’s SoC FPGA devices. Wind River’s operating systems and development tools now support Altera’s multi-core ARM processor-based SoC platforms.

  As Altera’s authorized partner for EOL products, Rochester is the only company officially licensed to manufacture the entire family of Classic EPLD products. Rochester’s’ Extension-of-Life solutions bring the Classics like EP610, EP910 & EP1810 products back to life.

Two IP cores, designed to provide a quality communication bus interface for military, commercial aviation and space applications, has been announced by Microsemi. The Core1553BRT v4.0 and Core1553BRM v4.0 IP cores support the company’s SmartFusion2 SoC FPGAs and IGLOO2 FPGAs, whilst also including enhancements for their currently supported FPGA families.

Designed to simplify the integration of Altera FPGAs and high-speed data converters, Altera have announced a range of JESD204B solutions for designers. The JESD204B solutions offered by Altera include IP cores, reference designs, development boards and interoperability reports for the industry’s latest data converters. The resources are available through Altera's online resource center.

Extending the battery cell lifetime of a variety of hand-held consumer electronics (such as mobile/smartphones, e-book readers and tablets), the 74AUP2G family of CMOS logic devices are designed specifically for low voltage, low energy operation. This family of dual gate, advanced, ultra-low power CMOS logic devices has been announced by Diodes Incorporated.

Claiming to offer designers the smallest footprint available in the industry, Microsemi have announced that their FPGA portfolio is now available in a small form factor. The packaging options for the SERDES-based SmartFusion2 SoC FPGAs and IGLOO2 FPGAs deliver up to an additional 50% PCB area savings.

A dual-FPGA platform for R&D, designated the SMT166, has been launched by Sundance Multiprocessor Technology. The platform is designed for the use of large FPGAs for high-performance reconfigurable computing and large-scale embedded systems applications, as well as SoC simulation.