Actel announced the availability of the CoreMP7 Development Kit, a complete Providing users with everything needed to evaluate and design FPGA-based system-on-chip (SoC) applications, the kit includes the CoreMP7, the Actel ARM7-enabled M7 ProASIC3 device and FPGA development tools. The Development ...

Lattice Semiconductor announced the addition of two devices of its Power Manager II product family, the ispPAC-POWR1014 and ispPAC-POWR1014A. The Power Manager II family is a functional superset of Lattice’s ispPAC Power Manager programmable mixed signal devices, which provide a complete power manag...

X-Fab has extended its IP offering to include RF building blocks for its 0.6 µm BiCMOS technology. This XB06 process technology is dedicated for the design of radio-frequency ICs for operating frequencies up to 1 GHz. The building blocks are optimized for the 868 MHz ISM band. The XB06 design kit co...

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LSI Logic introduces the XFI SerDes core with single-lane operation up to 11.1 Gb/s to allow for forward error correction. The XFI SerDes core enables an SoC device to drive an XFP optical module, resulting in compact, cost-effective designs for 10 Gb/s packet processing – a need driven by the explo...

Lattice Semiconductor introduced its second-generation EConomy Plus Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) devices, the LatticeECP2 family. Developed on 90nm Fujitsu CMOS technology utilizing 300mm wafers, this family cuts FPGA prices to under $0.50 per 1,000 Look-up Tables (LUTs) in high volume. The ...

LSI Logic introduces RapidWorx 4.0 – an design tool fos SOC designs. The RapidWorx Design Kit consists of the clock, I/O, IP and memory manager. Features in the I/O manager help users take full advantage of the RapidChip configurable I/Os and the new memory manager provides flexible and configurable...