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• Xilinx's 10GBASE-KR Solution Passes Full Electrical and Protocol Testing for Backplane Applications (Thursday Jul. 25, 2013)
  Xilinx today announced that its 7 Series GTH transceiver successfully completed testing for 10GBASE-KR LogiCORE™ IP at the University of New Hampshire InterOperability Laboratory (UNH-IOL)
  
  
• Xilinx's Zynq-7000 All Programmable SoCs Enable Mobilicom's Advanced Peer-to-Peer Software-Defined Radios (Tuesday Jul. 16, 2013)
  Xilinx today announced that at the heart of Mobilicom's new MCU-30 software-defined radio (SDR) is Xilinx's Zynq®-7030 All Programmable System-on-a-Chip.
  
  
• Xilinx Tapes-Out First 20nm All Programmable Device with First UltraScale ASIC-class Programmable Architecture (Tuesday Jul. 09, 2013)
  Xilinx announced two more industry firsts at 20nm, expanding on a series of industry innovations started at 28nm. Xilinx has now taped out the semiconductor industry's first 20nm device, and the PLD industry's first 20nm All Programmable device.
  
  
• Lattice Introduces New Automotive Grade FPGAs to Accelerate Affordable Innovation (Wednesday Jun. 26, 2013)
  The six new devices leverage Lattice's expertise in low power, small size, and cost optimized FPGAs to deliver programmable technology that can be used for all classes of automobile as well as automotive aftermarket products.
  
  
• Microsemi Announces System Builder Design Tool for ARM-based SmartFusion2 SoC FPGA Designs (Thursday Jun. 13, 2013)
  Microsemi today announced SmartFusion®2 SoC FPGA users can now benefit from its newly released design tool, System Builder.
  
  
• Altera Announces Breakthrough Advantages with Generation 10 (Monday Jun. 10, 2013)
  Generation 10 devices are optimized based on process technology and architecture to deliver the industry’s highest performance and highest levels of system integration at the lowest power.
  
  
• Xilinx and TSMC Team to Enable Fastest Time-to-Market and Highest Performance FPGAs on TSMC's 16-nanometer FinFET (Wednesday May. 29, 2013)
  Xilinx and TSMC announced that they are teaming together to create the fastest time-to-market and highest performance FPGAs to be built on TSMC's 16-nanometer FinFET (16FinFET) process, a program Xilinx calls 'FinFast.'
  
  
• Lattice's Latest Design Software Enables Designers to Derive Big Benefits From Tiny FPGAs (Tuesday May. 28, 2013)
  Lattice today announced Lattice Diamond® v2.2 software, its flagship FPGA logic design software, and iCEcube2™ (v2013-03) software, the company's design environment for the iCE40™ device family. These new releases support new additions to Lattice's ultra-low density FPGA product line that are ideal for low-power, low-cost, space-constrained systems.
  
  
• Altera Stratix V GX FPGAs Achieve PCIe Gen3 Compliance and Listing on PCI-SIG Integrators List (Tuesday May. 21, 2013)
  Altera today announced its 28 nm Stratix® V GX FPGAs have achieved inclusion on the latest PCI-SIG® Integrators List for the PCI Express® (PCIe®) 3.0 specification (Gen3). At the most recent PCI-SIG workshop, Stratix V GX FPGAs successfully passed all PCI-SIG compliance and interoperability tests, completing inclusion for Stratix V on all three generations of the Integrators Lists for PCIe.
  
  
• Xilinx and Sumitomo Electric Collaborate on Smarter Solutions that Reduce Network CapEx and OpEx Costs (Tuesday May. 21, 2013)
  Wireless system designers using Xilinx's SmartCORE IP can scale to support small cells to high-end macro cells, as well as active antenna systems (AAS), offering customers time-to-market advantages, lower development costs, high efficiency, lower SWaP (size, weight and power), and lower total cost.
  
  
• Xilinx Achieves PCI Express Compliance Across its All Programmable 28nm Devices (Monday May. 20, 2013)
  Xilinx, Inc. today announced that its All Programmable 7 series FPGAs and Zynq®-7000 All Programmable SoCs have achieved full PCI Express® compliance and are now listed on the PCI-SIG integrator's list.
  
  
• Altera Opens the World of FPGAs to Software Programmers with Broad Availability of SDK and Off-the-Shelf Boards for OpenCL (Monday May. 06, 2013)
  Altera SDK for OpenCL Combined with an Ecosystem of Development Boards Delivers Power-efficient, High-performance Solution for Heterogeneous Computing
  
  
• Altera Quartus II Software v13.0 Enables World's Fastest FPGA Designs (Monday May. 06, 2013)
  Altera today announced the release of its Quartus® II software version 13.0, which delivers the highest levels of FPGA and SoC performance and designer productivity. Users targeting 28 nm FPGAs and SoCs will experience on average a 25 percent reduction in compile times.
  
  
• Altera Announces Availability of Cyclone V SoC Development Kit (Monday Apr. 22, 2013)
  Altera today announced the availability of its Cyclone® V SoC Development Kit. Developed in collaboration with ARM, this kit features the recently announced ARM® Development Studio 5 (DS-5™) Altera® Edition Toolkit software, an FPGA-adaptive debugging software that enables designers to view the processor and FPGA portions of the device simultaneously.
  
  
• Altera and TSMC Collaborate on 55 nm EmbFlash Process (Tuesday Apr. 16, 2013)
  Altera and TSMC today announced a technology collaboration using TSMC’s 55 nm leading-edge Embedded Flash (EmbFlash) process technology. Programmable devices based on TSMC’s 55 nm EmbFlash target a wide range of low-power, high-volume applications in a variety of markets, including automotive and industrial.
  
  
• Altera and AppliedMicro will Cooperate on Joint Solutions for High Growth Data Center Market (Monday Apr. 15, 2013)
  The strategic cooperation initiative will enable the two companies to combine advanced Altera FPGAs with silicon solutions from AppliedMicro, including the company’s full line of connectivity and ARM® 64-bit X-Gene Server on a Chip products.
  
  
• Lattice Introduces Image Sensor Extender Reference Design (Thursday Apr. 11, 2013)
  Lattice today announced the SensorExtender™ reference design that offers a low-cost approach to remotely locate image sensors up to eight meters away from the image signal processor (ISP) and transmit and receive video signals at resolutions that range up to 720p60 and 1080p30.
  
  
• Altera Demonstrates Industry's First QPI 1.1 FPGA Home Agent for Enhanced Server Capabilities (Wednesday Apr. 10, 2013)
  Altera today announced the industry’s first demonstration of an FPGA Home Agent enabled by the Intel QuickPath Interconnect (QPI) protocol 1.1. Connecting to Intel’s Sandy Bridge XEON processors, the demonstration leverages an Altera® Stratix® V FPGA configured as the Home Agent, and it supports both the Caching Agent and Home Agent in a Pactron Vigor Development Platform.
  
  
• Altera Demonstrates Industry's First 32-Gbps Transceiver with Leading-Edge 20 nm Device (Monday Apr. 08, 2013)
  Altera today announced the company achieved another significant milestone in transceiver technology by demonstrating the industry’s first programmable device with 32-Gbps transceiver capabilities. The demonstration uses a 20 nm device based on TSMC’s 20SoC process technology.
  
  
• Xilinx and its Ecosystem Showcase All Programmable and Smarter Vision Systems at NAB 2013 (Monday Apr. 08, 2013)
  Demonstrations include Xilinx's Real-Time Video Engine (RTVE), SMPTE 2022 video over IP, the Zynq®-7000 All Programmable SoC Video & Imaging Kit, and several demonstrations from over a half dozen of Xilinx's Alliance Program members.
  
  
• Xilinx Enables OEMs to Develop Smarter Broadcast Solutions With Availability of its Real-Time Video Engine 2.1 (Monday Apr. 08, 2013)
  Xilinx is enabling broadcast equipment OEMs to speed development of next-generation Smarter solutions with today's announcement of the availability of the 2.1 release of its Real-Time Video Engine (RTVE), which runs on the OZ745 Zynq®-7045 All Programmable system-on-a-chip (SoC) baseboard from OmniTek, a Certified Xilinx® Alliance Program Member.
  
  
• Altera Showcases 4K Video Processing and Multichannel Video-over-IP at 2013 NAB Show (Monday Apr. 08, 2013)
  Altera is showcasing its latest broadcast solutions for 4K video processing and multichannel video-over-IP at the 2013 NAB Show. Additionally, the company is demonstrating its Stratix® V Advanced Systems Development Kit (ASDK), a PCI Express® (PCIe®) Gen3x16 plug-in card architected for 4K ultra high-definition (Ultra HD), equivalent to 16-channel 1080p60 video processing.
  
  
• Xilinx Vivado Design Suite Accelerates Time to Integration and System-Level Design to Stay a Generation Ahead (Wednesday Apr. 03, 2013)
  The Vivado Design Suite 2013.1 release includes a new IP-centric design environment for accelerating the time to system integration, and a comprehensive set of libraries to accelerate C/C++ system-level design and high-level synthesis (HLS).
  
  
• Xilinx Extends Leadership in Avionics with Certifiable, All Programmable Design Solutions and Dedicated Support (Monday Mar. 25, 2013)
  Xilinx today announced its comprehensive solutions and support to address complex avionics certification challenges. Xilinx's DO-254, DO-178, and SEU mitigation solutions build upon its long history of leadership in military avionics and secure solutions to extend support for certification of commercial, military and dual-use avionics systems.
  
  
• Xilinx Stays a Generation Ahead in All Programmable SoCs for Smarter Wireless, Broadcast, Medical and Military Systems (Tuesday Mar. 19, 2013)
  Xilinx today unveiled its new Zynq™-7100 All Programmable SoCs, the latest addition to its Zynq-7000 family, which integrates the industry's highest performance digital signal processing (DSP) to meet the most demanding programmable systems integration requirements of next-generation 'smart' wireless, broadcast, medical and military applications.
  
  
• Altera Cyclone V GT FPGA Is Industry's First Low-Power FPGA to Achieve Compliance for PCIe Gen2 at 5 Gbps (Monday Mar. 18, 2013)
  Altera today announced its 28 nm Cyclone® V GT FPGA completed compliance testing with the PCI Express® (PCIe®) 2.0 specification. Available in production today, the Cyclone V GT FPGA is the industry’s first low-cost, low-power FPGA to achieve PCIe 2.0 interoperability with data rates of 5 Gbps.
  
  
• Lattice Announces World's Smallest FPGA for Miniature Systems (Monday Mar. 11, 2013)
  Lattice today announced the iCE40 LP384 FPGA, the smallest member of its expanding iCE40 family of ultra-low density FPGAs. The tiny, low-power, low-cost iCE40 LP384 FPGA has a capacity of 384 LUTs; consumes 25-Microwatts static core power; comes in packages as small as 2.5 mm x 2.5 mm with a migration path to 2.0 mm x 2.0 mm; and costs less than 50 cents per unit in multi-million unit quantities.
  
  
• Xilinx Showcases 400G Applications for Optical and Wired OTN Markets at OFC 2013 (Monday Mar. 11, 2013)
  Xilinx will demonstrate 400G optical and wired OTN applications based on its 7 series All Programmable FPGAs and recently announced portfolio of SmartCORE™ IP.
  
  
• Xilinx Solutions Target Growing ASIC and ASSP Gaps for Next-Generation Smarter Networks and Data Centers (Monday Mar. 04, 2013)
  Xilinx today announced solutions for significant and growing gaps in ASIC and ASSP offerings targeting next-generation smarter networks and data centers. In order to fill these gaps, Xilinx has been acquiring and developing a SmartCORE™ IP portfolio and a critical mass of application specialists and services that leverage Xilinx's All Programmable FPGAs, SoCs, and 3D ICs.
  
  
• Altera and TSMC Continue Long-Term Partnership (Tuesday Feb. 26, 2013)
  Altera and TSMC today reaffirmed their commitment to a long-term partnership to set new milestones in FPGA innovation. TSMC is Altera’s primary foundry, supplying a wide array of processes to fulfill Altera’s product portfolio, including soon-to-be released 20 nm products, existing mainstream products, and long-lived legacy components.