FEATURE ARTICLES

BOM Blast
Cutting Costs with FPGAs
(October 30, 2007)

Duct Tape, FPGAs, and the Art of Making Great Multi-Purpose Tools, by Darren Zacher, Mentor Graphics Corporation
(October 30, 2007)

Teaching them to Fish
Xilinx Expands Services
(October 23, 2007)

Dialing-in DSP on FPGA
Catapult Customized for Altera
(October 16, 2007)

Myth of the Technical Track
Management Migration of Engineering Talent
(October 9, 2007)

Happy Birthday!
FPGA Journal Turns 4
(October 2, 2007)

NEWSLETTERS

October 30, 2007 :: volume XVII, no. 05

October 23, 2007 :: volume XVII, no. 04

October 16, 2007 :: volume XVII, no. 03

October 9, 2007 :: volume XVII, no. 02

October 2, 2007 :: volume XVII, no. 01

October 31, 2007

Savant Announces Innovative Forum on Chip Design: The 5th International System-on-Chip (SoC) Conference, Exhibit, and Workshops

Xilinx at SDR Technical Conference 2007

October 30, 2007

VirtualLogix Announces VLX for Communications Infrastructure Supporting Texas Instruments Multicore Digital Signal Processors

PrismTech Delivers Breakthrough Technology for FPGAs

GiDEL Utilizes Altera's Stratix FPGA Families in Latest Development Systems

RADVISION and SPIRIT Join Texas Instruments in Powering Electronic Consumer Equipment with Embedded High-Quality Voice & Video Conferencing

October 29, 2007

Altera Ships Arria GX Development Kit for Low-Cost FPGA Transceiver-Based Designs

Lattice Semiconductor and Dune Networks Announce Collaboration to Develop SPAUI-Based Network Solutions

NASA’s Johnson Space Center selects Altium Designer as electronic design standard -- Altium Designer unifies electronic design for NASA’s leading spaceflight related research center

XJTAG v2.0 Boundary Scan System Sets New Standard for PCB Debug & Test

TEKmicro and PrismTech to Provide up to 100x Performance Boost for FPGA-Based Signal Processing Applications

October 25, 2007

Virginia Tech Engineering Students Use NI LabVIEW to Develop a Fully Autonomous Humanoid Robot

Silicon Canvas Affirms Commitment to Standards Efforts with OpenAccess Database and EDA Interoperability Demonstrations

October 24, 2007

Nallatech™ to Support and Deliver Product for Intel® QuickPath Interconnect

Elektrobit Corporation Selects Catapult C Synthesis to Design Next-Generation Wireless Hardware

TrellisWare Employs Altera's Stratix II FPGAs in New RapidFire Development Platform

October 23, 2007

Korea Telecom and SPIRIT Cooperate on Building New Multi-service and Multi-terminal Application

Nu Horizons Electronics Launches Nu Solutions Network

TTP Controller IP in Altera’s Low-Cost Cyclone FPGA Families for Aerospace Applications

October 22, 2007

Altium adds LatticeSC/M FPGA support to Altium Designer

Virage Logic Expands Silicon Aware Intellectual Property (IP) Offering with New 65-Nanometer Memory and Logic Products

AMI Semiconductor Medical Business Unit Implements Sarnoff Europe’s TakeCharge® ESD Protection Solution

Altera Rolls Out MSAN Partner Ecosystem for Broadband Access Applications

October 17, 2007

SynaptiCAD Acquires Bi-Directional Verilog to VHDL Translation Software; Offers HDL Translation Service

Access to faster power supply simulation for Altium Designer users

Berkeley Design Technology, Inc. (BDTI) Releases Independent Benchmark Results for a Massively Parallel Multicore Processor

October 16, 2007

EEMBC Launches OABench(TM) 2.0 Second-Generation Office Automation Benchmark Suite for Embedded Processors

GDA Technologies Announces Collaboration With California Micro Devices to Develop CM5100 for Mobile Handset Designs

October 16, 2007 continued

Tundra Semiconductor Introduces Multi-Standard Serial RapidIO Switch with PCI Bridging and FPGA Interface

Pro Design Goes Japan

October 15, 2007

NI Introduces Industry’s First PXI Express System Timing Controller

PLX Switch to Provide PCI Express Slots in HP ProLiant Servers

SEMATECH and UCL Researchers Identify Charge-Trapping Mechanism in Novel Materials For Advanced Gate Stacks in New Generation of Transistors

QuickLogic Expands into Mobile Accessory Market with SDIO Client Proven System Block

October 11, 2007

Mentor Graphics and Altera announce Catapult C Synthesis Accelerated Libraries for High-Performance DSP Hardware in FPGA

Allen Telescope Array Begins Scientific Observations

Diodes, Inc. Announces Two Ultra-Low Dropout Regulators for Low Power Portable Applications

Aldec Releases Riviera-PRO Targeting ASIC/FPGA Verification Market

October 10, 2007

Altera and TRS-STAR Announce Automotive Industry's First Scalable Infotainment Platform

October 9, 2007

Epson and Jungo Announce Availability of Jungo's USBware™ Software Protocol Stacks for Epson’s USB Controllers

IAR Systems introduces complete integrated development suite for ColdFire® microcontrollers

ActiveX control enables asymmetric cryptography on FTDI USB ICs

Arrow Joins Altera to Host SOPC World 2007 in Greater China Region

October 8, 2007

Altium opens up unified design to DxDesigner users

Actel's Low Power IGLOO(TM) Family Selected by China's Portable Design Engineers

October 5, 2007

Line 6 and Freescale Empower Third-Party Audio Designers with New ToneCore® DSP Developer Kit

OKI Network LSI Achieves Multiple First-Pass Verification Successes Using Synopsys VMM Methodology

October 3, 2007

Helion Vision Selects The LatticeXP2 FPGA For Its Next Generation Camera Modules

ARM Unveils Cortex-A9 Processors for Scalable Performance and Low-Power Designs

TI Introduces +/-1C Remote and Local Temperature Sensors with n-Factor and Series Resistance Correction

October 2, 2007

International Conference on Computer Aided Design (ICCAD) Celebrates its 25th Anniversary with Nine New Leading-Edge Tutorials

Actel Discusses Green Power, Power-efficient Architectures and Extending Battery Life

Ramtron Expands High-Density F-RAM Family With 2-Megabit Device

October 1, 2007

Altera Extends Productivity Advantage with Quartus II Software Version 7.2

Lattice ispLEVER 7.0 Service Pack 1 FPGA Design Tool Suite Now Available