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...

Actel announced a power management solution for its SmartFusion mixed signal FPGAs. The Mixed Signal Power Manager (MPM) Solution includes a complete reference design with graphical configurator to enter power sequencing and trimming requirements. The design takes full advantage of the capabilities ...

Xilinx announced FPGA series implemented on 28-nanometer process that slashes total power consumption and offers capacity of up to 2 million logic cells. Xilinx 7 series extend the Targeted Design Platform strategy introduced with the company’s 40nm Virtex-6 and 45nm Spartan-6 FPGA families. The fam...

Actel announced that Keil supports the SmartFusion mixed signal FPGA family in the Keil MDK-ARM Microcontroller Development Kit. The latest release of MDK-ARM supports the ARM Cortex-M3 microcontroller subsystem (MSS) on SmartFusion devices and includes set-up files, device-specific views and exampl...

Actel unveiled SmartFusion, an intelligent mixed-signal FPGA. Available in production quantities, SmartFusion devices feature Actel’s FPGA fabric, a complete microcontroller subsystem built around a hard ARM Cortex-M3 processor and programmable analog blocks on a flash process. The combination of th...

X-Fab Silicon Foundries to offer an embedded non-volatile random-access memory (NVRAM) process feature, leading to a single-chip solution. Combining the benefits of quickly accessible SRAM with the non-volatile data retention of EEPROM or FLASH memories, the NVRAM capability of the XH018 process and...

Xilinx announced the first shipments and availability of its Virtex-6 LX760 device. The Virtex-6 LX760 device is ideal for application that requires intensive computational performance and high logic density. The Virtex-6 LX760 device has 1,200 SelectIO pins, 758.784 logic cells and 25,920Kbits Bloc...