FPGA / PLD

Mouser Electronics has signed a global distribution agreement with FPGA and embedded FPGA IP company, QuickLogic. The distributor will initally stock Quicklogic’s EOS S3 low power microcontrollers (pictured) and QuickFeather development kits, supported by open source software. The agreement means Mouser will stock the EOS S3 sensor processor. This is a multi-core SoC based on low power, multi-core Arm Cortex M4 microcontroller ...

Lattice has updated its mVision embedded vision and Sentry security tool suits. mVision 2.0 has expanded support for automotive, industrial and medical embedded vision, with new development boards supporting popular image sensors for industrial and medical applications including Sony’s IMX464 and IMX568, and the AR0344CS from ON Semiconductor. Support for Lattice Propel Design Environment has also been added, aiming at ...

To accelerate the work rate of data centres, Xilinx has introduced a suite of products to address networking functions and AI analytics. The company announced a new family of Aleveo SmartNICs, AI video analytics applications and an accelerated algorithm trading reference design for fast (sub-microsecond) trading. The company also launched the Xilinx App store today. The Alveo SN1000 SmartNICs provide ...

Since its acquisition in 2017, EDA software company, Mentor, has styled itself ‘Mentor, a Siemens company’. From January, 2021, it will change its name to Siemens EDA. Announcing the name change, Joe Sawicki, executive vice president of IC-EDA, Siemens EDA (pictured), said that the name brings EDA software, simulation, mechanical design, manufacturing, cloud, IoT and low code technology under a ...

The second generation of Mach FPGAs from Lattice Semiconductor have heightened security features and the processing capability to implement a real time hardware root of trust (HRoT) operation for servers, computing, comms, industrial and automotive systems. Mach-NX FPGAs are based on the company’s Nexus FPGA platform. To thwart bad actors attempting to exploit firmware vulnerabilities, systems can be protected with ...

The vehicle has been launched in Japan this week with an enhanced version of EyeSight, the vehicle manufacturer’s vision-based ADAS. The Levorg’s EyeSight is powered by Xilinx’s automotive-qualified (XA) 16nm Zynq UltraScale+ multiprocessor SoC (MPSoC). According to the company, it delivers the high-performance, ultra-low latency, and functional safety (ASIL) capabilities to accurately depict and react to dynamic driving scenarios. Tetsuo ...

ADI and Intel are to collaborate on creating a flexible radio platform that addresses 5G network design challenges and will enable customers to scale their 5G networks more quickly and economically. The radio platform combines the advanced technology of ADI’s radio frequency (RF) transceivers with the high performance and low power of Intel Arria 10 Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs) giving developers ...

It has been an unusual DAC this year, as the show went virtual due to the Covid-19 pandemic. There was no exhibition floor as such, but there was a comprehensive programme of keynote speeches, presentations, tutorials and panel discussions. There was a lot of activity around RISC-V, including a presentation by Imperas Software (www.imperas.com) entitled What’s Next for RISC-V? Vectors, Verification, ...

Lattice Semiconductor has released the second family of devices developed from its Nexus 28nm FDSoI platform, equipping them with fast PCI Express (PCIe) and Gigabit Ethernet interfaces for co-processing, signal bridging, and system control. Certus-NX FPGAs, as they will be known, are intended to be general purpose, aimed at applications from data processing in automated industrial equipment to system management ...

Travel to planets as well as working among the stars and lower orbits, are seeing renewed levels of interest and activity. Today, there are estimated to be 366bn commercial satellites and SpaceX, a private company is currently planning to launch the Falcon 9 rocket and NASA’s Crew Dragon spacecraft on 27 May. One of the major challenges in the space ...