Xilinx announced the availability of a development kit for building embedded processing systems based on PowerPC 440 and MicroBlaze processors. Built around the Virtex-5 FXT FPGA system integration platform, the kit enables both hardware and software designers to quickly architect, develop and debug...

Actel has received ISO/TS 16949:2002 certification. When combined with AEC-Q100 Grade 1 and Grade 2 qualification of its ProASIC 3 devices and the company’s Production Part Approval Process (PPAP) documentation, the certification ensures that customers can deploy automotive FPGA products. Actel’s fl...

Lattice Semiconductor announced that automotive versions of its non-volatile 90nm Flash-based LatticeXP2 FPGAs (Field Programmable Gate Array) have been characterized and qualified to meet the certification requirements of the AEC-Q100 standard as defined by the Automotive Electronics Council (AEC)....

Vector Fields releases a new version of its Concerto software tool for high-frequency electromagnetic design. Concerto v7 includes 64-bit PC processing support, better distributed processing of simulations, greatly improved support for exploiting periodicity in designs, and a highly innovative optim...

Synopsys announced the availability of DesignWare IP for PCI Express with PCI-SIG Single Root I/O Virtualization (SR-IOV) technology. The PCI-SIG I/O Virtualization (IOV) technology, which builds on the PCI Express (PCIe) protocol stack, reduces the system hardware requirements by enabling the simul...

Lauterbach, the manufacturer of microprocessor development tools, has launched TRACE32 debugging tool support for the PowerPC 440 processor cores embedded in the recently announced Virtex5 FXT FPGA family, the System Integration Platform from Xilinx.

Building on its long-time support of the Powe...

Distributor Silica releases a $39 Xilinx Spartan-3A Evaluation Kit. Populated with a Xilinx Spartan-3A 400A Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA), the kit is a solution for designers evaluating or testing their design. Designers can use the Spartan-3A kit for general FPGA prototyping, investigating t...