Actel announced that Keil supports the SmartFusion mixed signal FPGA family in the Keil MDK-ARM Microcontroller Development Kit. The latest release of MDK-ARM supports the ARM Cortex-M3 microcontroller subsystem (MSS) on SmartFusion devices and includes set-up files, device-specific views and exampl...

Actel unveiled SmartFusion, an intelligent mixed-signal FPGA. Available in production quantities, SmartFusion devices feature Actel’s FPGA fabric, a complete microcontroller subsystem built around a hard ARM Cortex-M3 processor and programmable analog blocks on a flash process. The combination of th...

X-Fab Silicon Foundries to offer an embedded non-volatile random-access memory (NVRAM) process feature, leading to a single-chip solution. Combining the benefits of quickly accessible SRAM with the non-volatile data retention of EEPROM or FLASH memories, the NVRAM capability of the XH018 process and...

Xilinx announced the first shipments and availability of its Virtex-6 LX760 device. The Virtex-6 LX760 device is ideal for application that requires intensive computational performance and high logic density. The Virtex-6 LX760 device has 1,200 SelectIO pins, 758.784 logic cells and 25,920Kbits Bloc...

Alpha Data announced the release of its first Virtex-6 FPGA based platform, the ADM-XRC-6TL XMC card. The card is fully compliant with the VITA 42.3 industry standard (PCI-Express backplane) and delivers unprecedented levels of digital signal processing capability making it a platform for the develo...

Xilinx introduced a Broadcast Connectivity Targeted Design Platform with Xilinx Virtex-6 FPGAs to simplify development of serial digital interface (SDI) solutions for high- performance broadcast audio and video systems. With the platform, broadcast equipment engineers can build multi-protocol broadc...

Actel announced several configurable DSP IP cores expanding the design creation capabilities for the RTAX2000D and RTAX4000D DSP FPGAs. The cores enable designers to create common DSP functions such as filters (FIR, IIR) and transforms (FFT, IFT, DCT). Using a graphical user interface (GUI) embedded...