Lattice Semiconductor announced the availability of a free display interface reference design. It illustrates how to use the pre-engineered I/O components within its low cost LatticeECP2 and new LatticeECP2M FPGA families to implement the “7:1” source synchronous LVDS (Low Voltage Differential Signa...

SOC designers can now use ProDesign’s CHIPit ASIC Rapid Prototyping and Emulation systems to verify designs using Tensilica’s Diamond Standard processor cores. CHIPit verification platforms provide verification and validation through the SOC and ASIC project life cycle. ProDesign’s CHIPit ASIC Proto...

Synopsys and First Silicon Solutions (FS2), a division of MIPS Technologies, announced the availability of the Sitka evaluation and development platform for Synopsys' DesignWare PCI Express (PCIe) IP. The Sitka board, the result of collaboration between the two companies, functions as a standard PCI...

Pentek released its GateFlow installed-core product Model 6821-422. Based on the model 6821 with 215 MHz A/D Converter VME with dual Virtex-II Pro FPGAs, it includes a factory-installed wideband digital downconverter (DDC) IP core. This DDC is dual-channel version of Pentek's GateFlow IP Core 422 ta...

Lattice Semiconductor announced the availability of the LatticeMico32, a 32-bit soft microprocessor optimized for Lattice Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs). Lattice is releasing the Hardware Description Language (HDL) code of the microprocessor core and various peripheral components generated b...

Jazz Semiconductor and Mentor Graphics announced the availability of a series of Technology Design Kits that support Jazz's Silicon Germanium and CMOS process technologies. The first set of TDKs that are immediately available support Jazz's 0.35-micron SiGe BiCMOS process, its 0.18-micron SiGe BiCMO...