Most powerful mini-8051?
Polish IP firm Digital Core Design has put an 8051 CPU into under 3,000 asic gates, claiming it to be the most powerful at this size. “A very low gate count area allows as well to run the core at high...
View ArticleRFEL says Zynq will widen FPGA apps
RFEL believes design with Xilinx’s Zynq-7000 28nm ARM-based system-on-chip will widen application of FPGAs. “Making Zynq-7000 SoC design consultancy part of our service offering,” said Dr. Alex Kuhrt,...
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Altera offers OpenCL design kit for parallel processing
Altera has announced its first software development kit (SDK) for OpenCL (Open Computing Language) which brings a parallel programming model to the supplier’s FPGAs for the first time. The SDK allows...
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Electronica: Xilinx unveils 20nm roadmap
Xilinx has given first details of its product plans for the next process node at 20nm. The FPGA and system-on-chip (SoC) supplier will move its next-generation 8 series all-programmable FPGAs, its...
View ArticleCambridge design firm joins Xilinx alliance
Cambridge-based design house Plextek has joined the Xilinx Alliance Program. The programme is a worldwide ecosystem of companies which have been audited by Xilinx and whose engineers have had specific...
View ArticleWhite space transceiver from Cambridge
Neul has announced its first transceiver chip for ‘white space’ communications in 470-790MHz UHF TV bands. Called Iceni, the chip is intended for secure non-line-of-sight machine-to-machine (M2M)...
View ArticleElectronics patent of the month: Anti retail-theft RFID antenna and reader
GPS with an accuracy of 2m has been developed by researchers at Carlos III University in Madrid. The researchers added three gyroscopes and three accelerometers to a conventional GPS system to pinpoint...
View ArticleAltera targets FPGA designs at smart grids
Altera has introduced an FPGA-based reference design for smart grid substation automation equipment. Developed jointly with wireless networks firm Flexibilis Oy, the IEC 62439-3-compliant reference...
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TI image sensor will replace an FPGA
Texas Instruments has designed an image sensor receiver chip that can be a LVDS bridge between image sensors and processors. Effectively removing an FPGA from a design, the SN65LVDS324 provides full...
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Lattice cuts cost of remote image sensor systems
Lattice Semiconductor has introduced a reference design for remotely locating image sensors up to eight metres away from the image signal processor (ISP) and transmit and receive video signals at...
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Lattice extends iCE40 FPGA family
Lattice IceCube2 software main window Lattice Semiconductor has extended its iCE40 low power FPGA family with iCE40 Ultra. The devices are intended for use adding functions to products – for example:...
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LTE mezzanine card supports 20Gbit/s per port
LTE wireless front-end system design is the target for an interface and processing card from CommAgility based around a Xilinx Virtex-7 FPGA. The Advanced Mezzanine Card (AMC) can be used for LTE...
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NI adds to software-designed instrument range
PXIe-5171R software-designed oscilloscope National Instruments has added to its range of software-designed instruments. The instrument’s software-designed element is LabView graphical design software,...
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Microsemi extends secure boot licence with Rambus
Microsemi has extended its existing Differential Power Analysis (DPA) patent license from the Cryptography Research division of Rambus. This allows the FPGA supplier to continue to implement...
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Ref design: Multi-Gbit IEEE 802.3 MDIO interface controller
Lattice Semiconductor has released a reference design for optical Ethernet up to 100Gitb/s – in particular, IEEE 802.3 management data input/output (MDIO) interface controllers. Design RD1194 uses...
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SDR platform can simplify MIMO radio design
AD-FMCOMMS5-EBZ The attraction of software-defined radio (SDR) is that it allows a single hardware design to support communications across a variety of formats, protocols, and frequencies, including...
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NI CompactRIO controller runs Linux RTOS on Intel Atom
NI’s latest CompactRIO controller is supported by LabVIEW 2014 and NI Linux real-time for applications in harsh, industrial environments. This software-design controller provides data processing,...
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Maxim D/A system for FPGA design
Achieving high-precision, high-speed digital control loops is a challenge for designers and Maxim’s MAXREFDES74 18-bit data acquisition system helps FPGA engineers evaluate and validate their...
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Infineon designs Gbit backhaul system
Infineon, GreenWaves, Altera and Escape Communications have put together a system design for Gbit wireless backhaul. Based on Infineon’s E-/V-band transceiver family and Escape Communications’ FPGA, it...
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Altera goes for the data centre
On the back of strong 2014 infrastructure spending Altera is forecast to grow 11-12% this year and is upping this year’s R&D budget to $430 million from $385 million last year. “We should grow...
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