FEATURE ARTICLES

Auld Langxiety
Bracing for 2008
(December 18, 2007)

New Approach to FPGA Physical Synthesis for Ease-of-Use and Wide Device Support
by Daniel Platzker and Jaggi Balasubramanian, Mentor Graphics
(December 18, 2007)

Zeroing in on Power
Altera Announces Max IIZ
(December 11, 2007)

Using CPLDs to Replace or Augment Microcontrollers
by James Adams, Altera Corporation
(December 11, 2007)

Legacy of Languages
Culture in Code
(December 4, 2007)

NEWSLETTERS

December 18, 2007 :: volume XVII, no. 12

December 11, 2007 :: volume XVII, no. 11

December 4, 2007 :: volume XVII, no. 10

December 21, 2007

Verigy Purchases Moore Microprocessor Patent™ Portfolio License

Cymbet Presents at the Semiconductor Research Council/National Science Foundation Forum on Nano-Morphic Systems

December 20, 2007

Aldec Releases Active-HDL 7.3 and Introduces Multi-Threaded HDL Compilation

December 19, 2007

QuickLogic’s Military-Temperature Configurable Technology Achieves Volume Production

SANYO Leverages Altera Cyclone II FPGAs to Bring High-End Vehicle Camera Features to Broad Market

December 18, 2007

Altera Shipping Full Line of
65-nm Cyclone III FPGAs

Pentek's New Dual Multiband Transceiver with FPGA Delivers 10 dB Improvement in A/D Performance

December 17, 2007

Darnaw1 – Delivering old style PGA connection for a modern FPGA module!

Sidense Broadens OTP Offering with Additional Process Nodes at SMIC

Lattice Announces Production Release Of Entire 90NM LatticeECP2M FPGA Family

December 14, 2007

cPacket Complete Packet Inspection Chips to Be Widely Available Through AnchorPointe

Avnet Electronics Marketing Receives Platinum Recognition from NEDA

December 13, 2007

Opal-RT Announces Global Availability of eMEGAsim Real-Time Power Grid Simulator

InterDigital Completes Successful Initial Evaluation Tests of Baseband ASIC

UK Patent Issued for O2Micro’s VPN Firewall Upgrade System

December 12, 2007

Stratix III FPGAs Achieve 533-MHz DDR3 Interface Performance

Z-RAM® Technological Breakthrough Enables World’s Densest and Lowest Cost Memory Technology

Lattice Devliers Industry's Fastest QDR II/II+ Memory Controller Support

December 11, 2007

Solace Systems Expands into China Through Partnership with Actel

December 11, 2007 continued

Synopsys, Altera and TSMC Collaboration Delivers Industry-Leading 45-Nanometer Extraction Accuracy

Xilinx XtremeDSP Solution Enables Dolby's LED-Backlit LCD Display Technology

Microchip Technology’s 11th Annual Strategic Technical Exchange Conference Series Trains Nearly 3,000 Engineers in Seven Countries

Mentor Graphics Precision Synthesis Combined With Xilinx SmartGuide Technology Dramatically Reduces Design Time

December 10, 2007

Altera Zeros Out Power With New MAX IIZ CPLDs for Portable Applications

Actel Drives Industry's Lowest Power FPGAs Into Portable Displays

Xilinx Powered SGI RC100 Reconfigurable Computing Platform Accelerates Bioinformatics Application Over 900X

Tensilica Offers Integrated Real-Time Trace Support to Xtensa Configurable and Diamond Standard Processor Cores

OneSpin Solutions Delivers First Equivalence Checker Dedicated to FPGA Synthesis Verification

December 5, 2007

Ambric Releases aDesigner, the First Practical Software Development Tool Suite for Programming Massively Parallel Processors

Webcast Showcases Solutions for FPGAs in Ultra Low-Power Applications

Microtronix Enhances 1080p Display Quality With Cyclone III FPGA-Based Development Kit

December 4, 2007

Vector Informatik Adopts Altera Cyclone III FPGAs for Network Interface Product Line

Toshiba Information Systems (JAPAN) Corporation Adopts Catapult C Synthesis for Next-Generation ASIC Design

GE Fanuc Intelligent Platforms Announces XMC/PMC Digital Transmitter Module

Xilinx Delivers Complete Virtex-5 FPGA Based Solutions for SPI-4.2 and SFI-4.1 Interfaces

December 3, 2007

Open Kernel Labs OKL4 Now Supports ARMv6 Architecture

Lattice Partners With Oregano Systems To Introduce IEEE 1588 Industrial Ethernet IP Core

Sidense OTP Integrated in XMOS Programmable Semiconductor

Three Universities Using Ambric Massively Parallel Processor Array Technology in New, Advanced Research Projects

DAC Student Design Contest Seeks Industry Support

TI Delivers First Single-Chip, Real-Time HD Video Transcoding Solution with DaVinci(TM) Technology