Actel and RoweBots announced the availability of Unison, an ultra tiny Linux compatible OS for Actel SmartFusion devices. Developers now have the option for Linux-based embedded design when using mixed signal FPGAs. With continued broadening of its ecosystem, Actel continues to provide ease of adopt...

Lattice Semiconductor announced the availability of Version 1.4 of its ispLEVER Classic design tool suite. The ispLEVER Classic design software has been upgraded with the addition of Synopsys Synplify Pro with the HDL Analyst feature set, and an improved ispMACH 4000ZE CPLD fitter with improved powe...

Xilinx launched a high-density, rad-hard reconfigurable FPGA for withstanding radiation environments encountered by applications ranging from low earth-orbiting satellites to systems supporting inter-planetary missions. The off-the-shelf Xilinx Virtex-5QV FPGA joins the FPGAs, IP, ISE Design Suite d...

 Lattice Semiconductor has released more than 90 reference designs optimized for the MachXO and ispMACH 4000ZE PLDs. Reference designs enable the design and deployment of commonly used functions such as general purpose I/O expander, I2C bus master / slave, LCD controller and SD Flash controller...

Altera has enhanced its Arria II GX FPGA variant with 6.375-Gbps transceivers and up to 1.25-Gbps LVDS support, while broadening the reach of the family with the addition of the new Arria II GZ FPGA variant. As a result, the 40-nm Arria II family provides the lowest power 6-Gbps transceiver solution...

Altera announced the release of its Quartus II development software version 10.0 for CPLD, FPGA and HardCopy ASIC designs. The software includes support for Altera's 28-nm Stratix V FPGA family and offers several new productivity features. The toll supports Altera's recently announced Stratix V GX a...

Lattice Semiconductor has partnered with Affarii Technologies to demonstrate a Remote Radio Head (RRH) solution at 1300mW per antenna. The integration of all RRH processing has been achieved on a single LatticeECP3-150 device, part of Lattice’s LatticeECP3 FPGA family. The single chip solution suppo...