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• Xilinx Demonstrates FPGA-Based Acceleration Technology for Next-Generation Data Centers at IBM Impact 2014 (Friday Apr. 25, 2014)
  Xilinx, Inc. (NASDAQ: XLNX) today announced it will demonstrate the industry's first key value store acceleration demo based on the IBM CAPI protocol at the IBM Impact 2014 Conference. As a member of the IBM OpenPOWER Foundation, Xilinx is delivering FPGA-based acceleration technologies for use in next-generation data centers and is among the growing open development community dedicated to accelerating innovation using IBM's POWER microprocessor.
  
  
• Altera Achieves Industry Milestone: Demonstrates FPGA Technology Based on Intel 14 nm Tri-Gate Process (Wednesday Apr. 23, 2014)
  Altera Corporation (NASDAQ: ALTR) today announced the demonstration of its FPGA technology based on Intel’s 14 nm Tri-Gate process. The 14 nm-based FPGA test chips incorporate key intellectual property (IP) components – transceivers, mixed-signal IP and digital logic – used in Stratix® 10 FPGAs and SoCs.
  
  
• Altera Changes the Game for Floating Point DSP in FPGAs (Tuesday Apr. 22, 2014)
  Altera is the first programmable logic company to integrate hardened IEEE 754-compliant, floating-point operators in an FPGA, delivering unparalleled levels of DSP performance, designer productivity and logic efficiency. The hardened floating point DSP blocks are integrated in Altera’s 20 nm Arria 10 FPGAs and SoCs – currently shipping – as well as 14 nm Stratix 10 FPGAs and SoCs.
  
  
• Vivado Design Suite 2014.1 Increases Productivity with Automation of UltraFast Design Methodology and OpenCL Hardware Acceleration (Wednesday Apr. 16, 2014)
  Xilinx today released the Vivado® Design Suite 2014.1, the industry's only SoC-strength development environment. This release extends the automation of the UltraFast™ design methodology and delivers an average of 25 percent faster runtimes and 5 percent improvement in performance across all devices. Also new to 2014.1 is hardware acceleration of OpenCL kernels, within Vivado High-Level Synthesis (HLS).
  
  
• Google's ATAP Group Selects Lattice FPGAs for its Project Ara Modular Smartphone Prototype (Tuesday Apr. 15, 2014)
  Lattice Semiconductor today announced that Google’s Advanced Technology and Projects group has selected Lattice FPGAs for its ambitious Project Ara initiative that aims to deliver the world’s first modular smartphones for consumers to configure from a variety of modules.
  
  
• Xilinx's DDR4 Memory Solution for UltraScale Devices Completes Agilent N6462A Compliance Test Running at 2400 Mb/s (Monday Apr. 14, 2014)
  Xilinx and Agilent Technologies today announced Xilinx's DDR4 memory solution for UltraScale™ devices has completed the Agilent N6462A compliance test running at 2400 Mb/s.
  
  
• Altera Announces High-Efficiency Power Conversion Solution for High-Performance FPGAs (Monday Apr. 07, 2014)
  Altera today announced the availability of a new power conversion solution that makes it easy for board developers to design point-of-load power solutions and achieve the highest FPGA performance at the lowest system power. The new power conversion solution, a monolithic 40A driver plus synchronous MOSFET powertrain, is optimized to meet the core requirements of Altera’s high-performance Stratix® V, Arria® 10, and Stratix® 10 FPGAs and SoCs.
  
  
• Xilinx and its Ecosystem Demonstrate All Programmable and Smarter Vision Systems at NAB 2014 (Thursday Apr. 03, 2014)
  Xilinx and its ecosystem will demonstrate All Programmable and Smarter Vision Systems at NAB 2014. Through a series of in-booth demonstrations, Xilinx and its Alliance Members will showcase design platforms, IP, and reference designs that provide the fastest way to bring 4K2K and packet-based video network systems to market.
  
  
• Altera Demonstrates New 4K Broadcast Connectivity and Encoding Solutions at NAB 2014 (Tuesday Apr. 01, 2014)
  Altera today announced it will be demonstrating its broadcast solutions at NAB from April 7 to 10, 2014, in the Altera booth (SU11110) showing attendees how to more effectively design high-end video cameras, encoders and other products that manage connectivity, compression and encoding applications for 4K video.
  
  
• Xilinx Enables "Softly" Defined Networks with New Software Defined Specification Environment (Monday Mar. 31, 2014)
  Xilinx today announced the industry's first solution for "Softly" Defined Networks, expanding programmability and intelligence from the control to the data plane. The design of the programmable data plane functions is enabled by the new Software Defined Specification Environment for Networking (SDNet), with functional specifications automatically compiled into Xilinx's All Programmable FPGAs and SoCs.
  
  
• Altera and Intel Extend Manufacturing Partnership to Include Development of Multi-Die Devices (Thursday Mar. 27, 2014)
  Altera and Intel today announced their collaboration on the development of multi-die devices that leverage Intel’s world-class package and assembly capabilities and Altera’s leading-edge programmable logic technology. The collaboration is an extension of the foundry relationship between Altera and Intel, in which Intel is manufacturing Altera’s Stratix® 10 FPGAs and SoCs using the 14 nm Tri-Gate process.
  
  
• Altera Joins IBM OpenPOWER Foundation to Enable the Development of Next-Generation Data Centers (Monday Mar. 24, 2014)
  Altera today announced it joined the IBM OpenPOWER Foundation, an open development alliance based on IBM's POWER microprocessor architecture. Altera will collaborate with IBM and other OpenPOWER Foundation members to develop high-performance compute solutions that integrate IBM POWER CPUs with Altera’s FPGA-based acceleration technologies for use in next-generation data centers.
  
  
• New Xilinx Reference Designs Equip Customers with Industry's Only Single-Chip Solution for 4x100G OTN Transponders and 2x100G OTN Switching Applications (Tuesday Mar. 11, 2014)
  Xilinx today announced new reference designs that equip customers with single-chip solutions for 4x100G OTN Transponder and 200G OTN Switching applications. These reference designs, in conjunction with the company's All Programmable 3D ICs and SmartCORE™ IP, provide customers with a fully featured evaluation platform for the creation and evolution of highly differentiated, high-bandwidth OTN applications.
  
  
• Altera Introduces OTN Solutions for 400G and Beyond at OFC 2014 (Tuesday Mar. 11, 2014)
  Altera today announced two new SoftSilicon® FPGA platforms that provide optical equipment manufacturers with standards-based OTN solutions beyond 100 Gigabit/s (B100G). The platforms feature an FPGA in combination with a fully integrated IP solution that reduces design time, integration processes and test phases, allowing customers to focus more on value-add technology differentiation.
  
  
• Xilinx Announces Availability of Industry's First High Performance DDR4 Memory Solution (Monday Mar. 10, 2014)
  Xilinx today announced availability of the industry's first high performance DDR4 memory solution for All Programmable UltraScale™ devices running at 2400 Mb/s. Based on an ASIC-class architecture, the UltraScale devices support massive I/O and memory bandwidth with dramatic power and latency reduction. Xilinx's robust memory solutions enable acceleration of design schedules and include the DDR4 interface among others.
  
  
• Xilinx Introduces UltraScale Multi-Processing Architecture for the Industry's First All Programmable MPSoCs (Tuesday Feb. 25, 2014)
  Building on the industry success of the Zynq-7000 All Programmable SoCs, the new UltraScale MPSoC architecture extends Xilinx's ASIC-class UltraScale FPGA and 3D IC architecture to enable heterogeneous multi-processing with 'the right engines for the right tasks.'
  
  
• Xilinx Expands All Programmable Artix-7 FPGA Family with New Automotive Qualified Devices (Monday Feb. 24, 2014)
  The new XA Artix-7 portfolio extends the market leading Xilinx® Automotive (XA) family of AEC-Q100 qualified FPGAs, providing best-in-class system performance per watt in applications like advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS), in-vehicle infotainment (IVI), and driver information (DI).
  
  
• Altera Announces 5 Gbps Microwave Backhaul Solution to Maximize Throughput Capacity and Spectrum Efficiency of 4G Networks (Wednesday Feb. 19, 2014)
  Altera today announced the availability of high-performance, cost-effective and scalable microwave backhaul solutions based on the company’s industry-leading FPGAs and QAM modem IP cores from Escape Communications.
  
  
• Xilinx Smarter Radio Solutions Address Performance Needs of Next-Generation LTE and MultiCarrier-GSM Platforms (Tuesday Feb. 18, 2014)
  Xilinx today announced availability of its Smarter Radio Solutions that meet the performance, power and cost needs of next-generation LTE and Multi-Carrier GSM (MC-GSM) platforms.
  
  
• Microsemi Enables FPGA-Based Root-of-Trust Solution for Embedded Systems with Introduction of Secure Boot Reference Design (Tuesday Feb. 11, 2014)
  Microsemi today unveiled its new FPGA-based Secure Boot Reference Design for embedded microprocessors. This new reference design uses the advanced security features in its mainstream SmartFusion®2 SoC FPGAs to securely boot any application processor in an embedded system, and ensures that processor code can be trusted during execution.
  
  
• Xilinx and Xylon Announce logiADAK Automotive Driver Assistance Kit Enabling Systems with up to Six Cameras (Tuesday Feb. 11, 2014)
  Xilinx and Xylon today announced the logiADAK Zynq®-7000 All Programmable SoC Automotive Driver Assistance Kit, jointly developed by Xilinx, Xylon and ecosystem partners Embedded Vision Systems (eVS) and Digital Design Corporation (DDC).
  
  
• Altera and Wind River Announce Strategic Partnership to Deliver Operating Systems and Development Tools Tailored for Altera SoC Platform (Wednesday Feb. 05, 2014)
  Altera and Wind River today announced that as a result of their strategic partnership, the companies have developed and deployed tools and solutions for Altera’s SoC FPGA devices. Wind River’s industry-leading operating systems and development tools support Altera’s multi-core ARM™ processor-based SoC platforms.
  
  
• Lattice Semiconductor and Helion Demonstrate New FPGA-Based Camera Design Solutions at SPIE Photonics West 2014 (Wednesday Jan. 29, 2014)
  Lattice and Helion today announced they will demonstrate several new FPGA-based camera design solutions at SPIE Photonics West. Show attendees can see firsthand how the world's smallest, lowest-cost-per I/O programmable devices are enabling new HD quality camera solutions for industrial and healthcare markets.
  
  
• Microsemi Builds Upon its FPGA Leadership in Defense and Aerospace with New Release and Certification of Core1553BRT and Core1553BRM IPs (Tuesday Jan. 28, 2014)
  
  
  
• Altera Streamlines the Evaluation of High-Speed Serial Transceivers In FPGAs and SoCs with Its Latest Verification Tool (Monday Jan. 27, 2014)
  Altera today complemented its suite of verification and board-level design tools with the release of its JNEye link analysis tool. JNEye enables designers to quickly and easily evaluate high-speed serial link performance in Altera FPGAs and SoCs.
  
  
• Altera JESD204B Solutions Simplify Integration of Leading-edge Data Converters in FPGA-based Systems (Thursday Jan. 23, 2014)
  
  
  
• Xilinx Tapes-out First Virtex UltraScale All Programmable Device as Part of Industry's Only High-End 20nm Family (Tuesday Jan. 21, 2014)
  Xilinx today announced another industry first at 20nm with the tape-out of the first Virtex® UltraScale™ device. Based on the UltraScale architecture, and the industry's only high-end 20nm offering, the Virtex UltraScale family provides unprecedented levels of performance, system integration, and bandwidth for a wide range of applications.
  
  
• Xilinx Zynq-7000 All Programmable SoCs Enable Wuhan Maxsine's EP3E Servo Drive (Wednesday Jan. 15, 2014)
  Xilinx today announced that its Zynq®-7000 All Programmable SoC family enabled Wuhan Maxsine's EP3E servo drives. By taking advantage of the Zynq-7000 All Programmable SoCs ARM® dual-core Cortex™-A9 MPCore™ processing system with tightly coupled programmable logic, Wuhan Maxsine, China's leading servo drive control solutions provider, significantly reduced design cycles and accelerated time to market.
  
  
• Lattice Begins Shipping MachXO3 FPGAs (Tuesday Dec. 24, 2013)
  Lattice today announced it has begun first shipments of the XO3-L 2200, 4300, and 6900 devices in the 256-Ball caBGA package, the first devices in the ultra-low density MachXO3™ Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) family, the world’s smallest, lowest-cost-per I/O programmable platform aimed at expanding system capabilities and bridging emerging connectivity interfaces using both parallel and serial I/O.
  
  
• Achronix Demonstrates Embedded 100G Ethernet in Speedster22i 22nm FPGAs (Tuesday Dec. 17, 2013)
  Achronix Semiconductor Corporation today announced that it has demonstrated error-free operation of 100G Ethernet functionality using the hard Ethernet IP in its Speedster22i® FPGAs. Speedster22i are the only FPGAs that have hardened IP for communication applications including 100G Ethernet, 100G Interlaken, PCI Express Gen3 x8 and DDR3 memory controllers.