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 functionality to check limits for weighted average simultaneous switching output (WASSO) analysis. This new...

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 programmers to a single PC. Further, Silicon Sculptor 3 is compatible with adapter modules from Silicon S...

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 access support for the company's 65nm Virtex-5 LX domain-optimized FPGAs. The latest release of Platform ...

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 dynamic-link co-simulation. The new capability allows engineers to simulate heating, stress and deformat...

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-source Eclipse Integrated Design Environment (IDE) and ARM7 GNU compiler and debugger, SoftConsole pr...

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 expected to be a popular blog subject, all Lattice and Lattice-related topics are open for discussi...