FPGA / PLD

Intersil announces high power digital multi-phase controllers equipped with AVSBus (adaptive voltage scaling bus), claiming them to be the first that communicate using the standard.

Xilinx says it has reached a significant production milestone for its 16nm UltraScale+ FPGAs ahead of schedule. “Less than a year after first ship of all devices, open order entry for production devices is available this quarter,” said the company. Xilinx  UltraScale+ FPGA family is a FinFET-based programmable technology which is now available at 14nm or 16nm process nodes. This includes Kintex, Virtex UltraScale+ FPGAs ...

Intel has started sampling its Stratix 10 FPGA, which uses Intel’s 14nm tri-gate (finfet) process. Claimed benefits over the last generation of Stratix are: 2x core performance 5x the density Up to 70% lower power than Stratix V (equivalent performance) Up to 10 TFlops single-precision floating point DSP Up to 1 Tbit/s memory bandwidth with integrated HBM2 (high-bandwidth memory) in-package ...

Achronix has announced availability of the new PCIe form factor Accelerator-6D accelerator board which is the industry’s highest single-FPGA memory bandwidth, PCIe add-in card for high-speed data center acceleration applications. The board integrates a Speedster 22i HD1000 FPGA with 700,000 look-up-tables that connects to six independent memory controllers allowing for up to 192 GB of memory and 690 Gbps of ...

Californian start-up MicroCore Labs has announced an 8051 soft processor core, four of which will fit into 1227 LUTs on a Xilinx Artix-7 FPGA. The core is called MCL51. “Because it is based on a microsequencer, this four-core demonstration is even smaller than a single soft-core gate-based 8051,” the company founder, known simply as Edward, told Electronics Weekly. “The execution unit of ...

Sundance Multiprocessor Technology Of Chesham has integrated Xilinx’s smallest Kintex UltraScale FPGA with its EMC2-family of embedded boards for the “OneBank” PC/104-compatible format. Sundance’s EMC2-family is a range of industrial-grade and deployment-ready PC/104 boards that feature either a Xilinx Zynq SoC or Xilinx Artix/Kintex FPGAs. The EMC2-KU35 is the latest member and has two banks of 16-bit DDR4 with close ...

Lattice Semiconductor has addressed the issue of multiple image sensor and display interface protocols with an FPGA-based bridge chip. Essentially, the device, called CrossLink, is a video interface bridge with a fast MIPI D-PHY capability that delivers up to 4K ultra-HD resolution at 12Gbit/s bandwidth. Protocols supported include MIPI D-PHY, MIPI CSI-2, MIPI DSI, MIPI DPI, CMOS, SubLVDS and LVDS.
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Lattice semiconductor has added to its MachXO3 family of FPGAs with the addition of the MachXO3L-9400 and MachXO3LF-9400 devices available in multiple packages. The new FPGAs offer 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, says Lattice. Features include: Glue-less 1V I/O interface for ...

Cloud-based FPGA design is the focus of a tie-up between Xilinx and IBM. IBM’s cloud service will host the Xilinx SDAccel development environment which will allow developers to describe their algorithms in OpenCL, C, and C++  and then compile directly to Xilinx FPGA-based acceleration boards. This is an open access cloud service, called SuperVessel,  which can be used by application developers, ...

Microsemi has introduced a secured production programming capability for its FPGAs. The firm uses hardware and software to generate and inject cryptographic keys and configuration bitstreams into its FPGAs as a preventative measure against cloning, reverse engineering, malware insertion or leakage of sensitive intellectual property (IP). Called SPPS, the security package includes the use of “customer” and “manufacturer” hardware security ...