Altera: The Once and Future FPGA Supplier, Part 2
The FPGA supplier known as Intel PSG (the Programmable Systems Group, formerly named Altera) will be announcing its new name and mission on February 29 – the leap day of a leap month of a leap year –...
View ArticleWill 2024 Really Be Intel’s Year to Retake the Lead in Semiconductor Process...
Way, way back in my high school senior English class, I learned about the six critical components of a news story: who, what, when, where, why, and extent (5WE). Today’s story focuses on Intel’s...
View ArticleMicrochip’s Low-Cost PolarFire® SoC Discovery Kit Makes RISC-V and FPGA...
CHANDLER, Ariz., February 15, 2024 — The embedded industry is seeing an increased demand for open-source RISC-V-based processor architectures, but there are still limited options when it comes to...
View ArticleCurtiss-Wright Rugged MPSoC Module Speeds the Integration of Trusted and...
ASHBURN, Va. – February 20, 2024 – Curtiss-Wright’s Defense Solutions Division has expanded its family of Enhanced TrustedCOTS plug-in modules designed to bring trusted and secure processing to rugged...
View ArticleTiny FPGA in Microchip’s latest PIC16 microcontroller adds real-time speed,...
Microchip now offers a Flash-based microcontroller with an integrated programmable-logic block for less than half a dollar in volume. The nine members of the Microchip PIC16F13145 family (the ‘113,...
View ArticleLattice Extends ORAN Solution Stack with Integrated 5G Small Cell Bridging...
HILLSBORO, Ore. – Feb. 26, 2024 – Lattice Semiconductor (NASDAQ: LSCC), the low power programmable leader, today announced its latest updates of the Lattice ORAN solution stack, enabling integrated 5G...
View ArticleFPGA maker Intel PSG spins out of Intel and adopts old name: Altera
A Fable: Once upon a time, in the incredibly wealthy Kingdom of Silicon, there lived a scrappy company named Duchess Altera, who shared the Duchy of FPGAs with an archrival named Duchess Xilinx. For...
View ArticleShield enables Click boards to be added to Red Pitaya ‘Swiss Army Penknife’...
March 2024: MikroElektronika (MIKROE), the embedded solutions company that dramatically cuts development time by providing innovative hardware and software products based on proven standards, today...
View ArticleAMD’s x86 CPU and FPGA tango on Sapphire Technology’s Embedded+ PC motherboard
What could possibly be interesting about a new PC motherboard? New x86 CPU? Yawn. Fancy new cooling fan with blue LEDs? Oh puh-leeze! Integrated FPGA for hardware I/O and computational acceleration...
View ArticleAlinx Releases Development Board and SoM with AMD Versal™
Shanghai, China – February 26th, 2024 – Alinx releases the VD100 development board with AMD/Xilinx Versal AI Edge VE2302. As one of the Tier-1 SoM (System-on-Module) partners, Alinx works closely with...
View ArticleAMD announces I/O-heavy Spartan UltraScale+ FPGA subfamily for low-cost designs
If you use low-cost – er – cost-effective FPGAs, there’s great news. You’ll have more choices sometime next year. AMD has just provided more details on its Spartan UltraScale+ FPGA family, based on...
View ArticleMercury Announces Early Access Program for New Direct RF Multi-Chip Module...
ANDOVER, Mass., March 18, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Mercury Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ: MRCY, www.mrcy.com), a technology company that delivers mission-critical processing power to the edge, today announced...
View ArticleIntuitive Machines sticks its moon landing (mostly), with emergency help from...
“The Moon is a Harsh Mistress,” a Hugo-award-winning SF novel published by Robert Heinlein in 1966, is an apt title that explains why so many actual moon missions fail. Landing on the Earth’s moon...
View ArticleEfinix Rolls Out Line of FPGAs to Accelerate and Adapt Automotive Designs and...
March 25, 2024 12:01 AM Eastern Daylight Time CUPERTINO, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Efinix®, an innovator in programmable logic solutions, today announced a line of FPGA solutions designed specifically for...
View ArticleA Brave New World of Emulation and Software Prototyping
Like so many of the technologies we take for granted today, I managed to find myself embroiled in the very early days of hardware emulation. This refers to the process of imitating the behavior of one...
View ArticleAMD Rocks with New Versal Gen 2 AI Edge SoC FPGAs
The awesome new AMD devices to which I’ve just been introduced have sparked a trip down memory lane (I know you’re surprised, because I pride myself on my laser-like focus that prevents me from...
View ArticleEfinix’s Titanium Ti375 Sampling; Unlocking and Delivering Mainstream Edge...
April 08, 2024 12:01 AM Eastern Daylight Time CUPERTINO, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Efinix®, an innovator in programmable logic solutions, today announced its Titanium Ti375 high performance FPGA is now...
View ArticleFlyOver® Technology: Twinax FlyOver® System for Next Gen Speeds — Samtec and...
In this episode of Chalk Talk, Amelia Dalton and Matthew Burns from Samtec investigate the challenges of routing high speed data over lossy PCBs. They also discuss the benefits that Samtec’s...
View ArticleGlobal Distributor Mouser Electronics Stocking Products from Altera, Intel’s...
April 17, 2023 – Mouser Electronics, Inc., the New Product Introduction (NPI) leader empowering innovation, is an authorized global distributor of Intel® products. Intel® has announced the official...
View ArticleRadiation-Tolerant PolarFire SoC FPGAs Offer Low Power, Zero Configuration...
CHANDLER, Ariz., May 1, 2024—Developers of spacecraft electronics utilize radiation-tolerant (RT) field programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) to ensure high performance, reliability, power-efficiency and...
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