FEATURE ARTICLES

Altium Goes 3D
Board Design Can Be Fun
(November 27, 2007)

Improving ADC Results Through Oversampling and Post-Processing of Data by Jim Vorgert, Actel Corporation
(November 27, 2007)

Designing Down Power
Actel Boosts Low-power Tool Suite
(November 20, 2007)

Physical Synthesis Flows for FPGA Designs
by Frédéric Rivoallon, Xilinx, Inc.
(November 20, 2007)

MicroBlazing Away
Xilinx Boosts Embedded Ecosystem
(November 13, 2007)

FPGAs Control Graphics and Video in Embedded Systems
by Kerry Howell, Lattice Semiconductor Corporation
(November 13, 2007)

FPGA BASE Jump
Partial Reconfiguration for SDR
(November 6, 2007)

NEWSLETTERS

November 27, 2007 :: volume XVII, no. 09

November 20, 2007 :: volume XVII, no. 08

November 13, 2007 :: volume XVII, no. 07

November 6, 2007 :: volume XVII, no. 06

November 30, 2007

Mentor Graphics Questa Functional Verification Platform Adopted by Siemens IT Solutions and Services PSE

November 29, 2007

Axcelis Introduces Optima XE Single Wafer High Energy Ion Implanter

IR’s SupIRBuck™ Family of Integrated DC-DC Regulators Shrinks Silicon Footprint by 70 Percent, Simplifies Embedded Power Designs

November 28, 2007

Freescale Touch Sensing Technology Obsoletes Mechanical Buttons and Switches

NI LabWindows™/CVI 8.5 Provides Flexible Multicore Programming for ANSI C Development

November 27, 2007

Mentor Graphics Olympus-SoC Place and Route System used by STMicroelectronics to Tape Out Set-Top Box Chip

Microchip Technology Adds More Flash Memory to the World’s Smallest Low Cost Digital Signal Controllers

GE Fanuc Intelligent Platforms Announces World’s First COTS VXS Serial RapidIO Managed Switch

NI Releases New CompactRIO Systems for High-Volume Machines and Devices

November 26, 2007

Altium makes it ‘real’ for all designers: industry-first real-time 3D PCB visualization and navigation

Xilinx and Brilliant Telecommunications Announce Industry's First Carrier-Class FPGA-Based Network Timing Solution for Next Generation Wired & Wireless Networks

Altera's New Nios II Embedded Evaluation Kit Showcases Unique FPGA Design Capabilities for Embedded Systems

Synplicity Joins Xilinx ESL Design Ecosystem

eASIC and Tensilica Partnership Delivers Free Diamond Processors on Free Mask Charge ASICs

BAE Systems Signs Agreement with Achronix to Develop High-Performance Radiation-Hardened Reconfigurable FPGA

November 21, 2007

GE Fanuc Intelligent Platforms Announces GHz Digital Receiver PMC/XMC Module

November 20, 2007

New partner for OpenCores.org

CoWare and Tensilica Integrate Diamond Standard 106Micro with CoWare ESL 2.0 Technology

GE Fanuc Intelligent Platforms Announces Telum™ NPA 58x4 4-port Gigabit Ethernet IP Packet Processor AdvancedMC™

National Instruments Joins Freescale, IBM and Xilinx in Power.org Collaboration

November 15, 2007

Mentor Graphics Announces an Optimized FPGA Design Flow Between Precision Synthesis and MathWorks Simulink HDL Coder

Actel Enhances its Integrated Design Environment with Verific Design Automation Software

Ambric Now Delivering the Am2045B, a New, Higher Performance, Lower Power Version of its Industry-leading TeraOPS-class MPPA Device

November 14, 2007

Freescale Takes S08 Microcontroller Architecture to New Heights of Flexibility and Performance

DoD's 'HAWK' Takes Off on Schedule; SGI Altix System Runs Applicaton on 9,000 Cores in Acceptance Tests

Atmel Launches Low-Cost Starter Kit for CAP Customizable Microcontroller

Echelon and Altera Collaborate to Enable More Powerful, Multi-Purpose Controllers for Control Automation Market

November 13, 2007

Opal-RT Technologies Introduces HILBOX FX FPGA Accelerator for xPC Target

Altera and Synopsys Collaborate to Make Nios II Processor Core Available for ASIC Designs

Actel Delivers Industry's First 4x4 mm Package for Programmable Logic Devices

NI and Collaborators Deliver New IP to Simplify FPGA Development

Avnet Electronics Marketing Releases New Virtex-5 Development Kit

Temento to Delivers Integrated FPGA Hardware Debug Solution for Mentor Graphics Precision Synthesis Customers

November 12, 2007

National Instruments and QNX Software Systems Deliver Measurement-Quality Analog I/O to OEMs

The MathWorks Delivers Key Capabilities for Parallel Applications, Multithreaded Computations, and 64-Bit Platforms

SRC Selects Altera for Next Generation MAP Processor

Xilinx Announces Commercial Availability of First Front Side Bus FPGA High Performance Computing Solution for Intel(R) Xeon(R) 7300 Series Platforms

November 9, 2007

Temento Launches an Innovative Business Model for Its 'Dialite' Debug Platform

November 8, 2007

SGI Builds World's Largest FPGA Supercomputer, Boosts Nucleotide Query Performance By More Than 900 Times Over 68-Node Cluster

GE Fanuc Intelligent Platforms Announces High Performance Rugged 3U CompactPCI Solution

Virginia Tech Team Uses NI LabVIEW and CompactRIO to Win Third Place in DARPA Urban Challenge

November 7, 2007

Technolabs Selects The LatticeECP2M FPGA Family For Its CIPHOP 900 IP Digital Radio System

Mentor Graphics Announces HDL Designer Series with SystemVerilog Support for Design-to-Verification Productivity

DRC Shows Impulse C Front-end for the DRC Module and Cray XT5™ Hybrid Computing Platform

November 6, 2007

CoWare Introduces First ESL 2.0 Technology Release for the Design of Processor- and Software-Intensive Electronic Platforms

VMETRO adds RAID and SBOD storage

NallatechTM Launches Xilinx® VirtexTM-5 PCI Express® FPGA Computing Platform

Cray Integrates DRC’s Reconfigurable Coprocessor in Next Generation Hybrid Computing Platform

GE Fanuc Intelligent Platforms and PrismTech Demonstrate Compact COTS Software Defined Radio

Xilinx Demonstrates Spartan-3 FPGA-based Machine Vision Solution at Vision 2007

November 5, 2007

Synplicity and Lattice Expand Partnership to Include DSP Synthesis

National Semiconductor Introduces Industry's First High-Power-Density, Self-Synchronizing Buck Regulators

Xilinx and Thales to Demonstrate Partially Reconfigurable FPGA-Based Architecture at Software Defined Radio Technical Conference

Synfora and Esterel EDA Technologies Simplify Integration of Application Engines into SoCs

Tensilica Unveils Diamond Standard 106Micro Processor; Smallest Licensable 32-bit Core