Xilinx announced availability of the 8.2 version of its PlanAhead hierarchical design and analysis software with support for its newest Virtex-5 LX family of 65nm FPGAs. PlanAhead 8.2 provides functio...

Actel introduced Silicon Sculptor 3, a field-programmable gate array (FPGA) programming tool. The software includes a high-speed USB 2.0 interface that allows a customer to connect as many as 12 progr...

Xilinx announced availability of version 8.2i of his Platform Studio tool suite for embedded processing design. The tool suite is part of the Xilinx Embedded Development Kit (EDK) and introduces acces...

Ansoft announced the availability of ePhysics v2. This latest version enhances ePhysics' 3D steady-state thermal, transient thermal and linear stress analyses coupling to HFSS and Maxwell 3D with dyna...

Actel announced SoftConsole, a free software program development environment for Actel’s CoreMP7, a soft 32-bit ARM7 microprocessor core for field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs). Based on the open-s...

Lattice Semiconductor launched a series of blogs (web logs) written by senior engineers. Reader comments and questions are encouraged and will be an influential driver of blog content. While FPGAs are...