Xilinx announced a single-FPGA solution for telecommunications equipment manufacturers developing 40- and 100-Gigabit Ethernet (GE) solutions. Xilinx has added the Virtex-5 TXT platform to its family of 65-nanometer FPGAs. The platform consists of two devices that deliver 6.5Gbps serial transceivers...

Lattice Semiconductor announced FPGA-based support for the Reduced Latency Dynamic Random Access Memory (RLDRAM) I/II memory devices. The LatticeSC and LatticeSCM FPGA families support RLDRAM I/II rates up to 800Mbps. The memory controller IP is implemented in Lattice’s MACO (Masked Array for Cost O...

Lattice Semiconductor announced the availability of Service Pack 1 for Version 7.1 of its ispLEVER FPGA Design Tool Suite. The release integrates Lattice’s ORCAstra configuration design utility, features Reveal Logic Analyzer support on the Linux Operating System, adds new versions of Synopsys’ Synp...