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• RADX Technologies, Xilinx and Analog Devices Demonstrate Advanced, Programmable EdgeQAM Technology Solutions at SCTE Cable-Tec Expo 2012 (Wednesday Oct. 17, 2012)
  RADX® Technologies, Inc., Xilinx, Inc. and Analog Devices are demonstrating the industry's most scalable range of off-the-shelf, programmable EdgeQAM technology solutions here at SCTE Cable-Tec Expo 2012
  
  
• Xilinx Accelerates Automotive Driver Assistance Deployment at SAE Convergence 2012 (Tuesday Oct. 16, 2012)
  Zynq-7000 All Programmable SoC-based platform enables automakers to address both technical challenges and business goals in designs to increase driver awareness
  
  
• Altera Introduces Industry's Highest-Bandwidth 28 nm Midrange FPGA (Monday Oct. 08, 2012)
  Altera today announced it has expanded its 28 nm portfolio with the introduction of the Arria® V GZ variant, incorporating the company’s industry-leading transceiver technology and delivering an overall core performance boost of more than two speed grades, or 30 percent.
  
  
• Altera Delivers Industry's Broadest Portfolio of 28 nm FPGA Development Kits (Thursday Sep. 27, 2012)
  Altera today announced availability of its Cyclone V GX FPGA development kit based on the industry’s lowest-power, lowest-cost 28 nm FPGA.
  
  
• Altera Expands Its OTN Portfolio with a Single-Chip 100G Muxponder Solution (Thursday Sep. 13, 2012)
  Based on Altera’s 28-nm high-performance Stratix® V FPGA, Altera’s multi-rate muxponder solution provides a proven single-chip solution that expands the capabilities of current networks by enabling developers to integrate emerging client types into their networks, such as 16G Fibre Channel.
  
  
• Xilinx Demonstrates Industry's First QPI 1.1 Interface with FPGAs at Intel Developer Forum (Tuesday Sep. 11, 2012)
  Xilinx today announced the industry's first demonstration of a FPGA interfacing to an Intel Sandy Bridge Xeon Processor using the QuickPath Interconnect (QPI) protocol. Xilinx's QPI solution provides developers a low-latency, high-performance link to Intel Xeon Processors from Xilinx® All Programmable FPGAs.
  
  
• Xilinx and Barco Silex Ease Video Over IP Development With Launch of All Programmable Solutions and Design Services at IBC 2012 (Thursday Sep. 06, 2012)
  Xilinx and Barco Silex announced today their collaboration to ease the development of video over IP solutions with a comprehensive platform combining hardware-validated IP, reference designs and systems integration services supporting Xilinx's All Programmable FPGAs and SoCs.
  
  
• Altera Accelerates "Beyond HD" Video Processing with High-Performance System Development Kit (Thursday Sep. 06, 2012)
  Altera today announced a high-performance system development kit capable of handling “beyond HD” resolutions and formats for customers designing multi-channel and high-resolution video processing systems.
  
  
• Xilinx and OmniTek Launch the Era of All Programmable SoCs for Broadcast Equipment Makers at IBC 2012 (Thursday Sep. 06, 2012)
  Powered by Xilinx 's ARM®-based Zynq™-7000 All Programmable SoC, the OmniTek Zynq-7000 SoC Broadcast Development Kit represents a tremendous opportunity for broadcast OEMs to now combine their own hardware and software IP with this high-performance, reprogrammable video processing platform for creating unique and differentiated broadcast equipment that can easily adapt to changing standards.
  
  
• Altera Unveils Innovations at 20nm (Wednesday Sep. 05, 2012)
  Altera’s 20-nm mixed-system fabric includes the integration of 40-Gbps transceiver technology, a next-generation variable-precision digital signal processing (DSP) block architecture that delivers over 5 TFLOPs of IEEE 754 floating-point performance, and heterogeneous 3D ICs that integrate FPGAs with a user-customizable HardCopy® ASIC or a variety of other technologies, including memory, third-party ASICs and optical interfaces through an innovative high-speed interface.
  
  
• Altera First in Industry to Achieve Production Rollout of All 28-nm FPGA Families (Wednesday Sep. 05, 2012)
  Altera today announced it is shipping in production all three of its 28-nm FPGA families, including Stratix® V, Arria® V and Cyclone® V devices. Altera achieves this industry milestone with the latest shipment of the largest Cyclone V FPGA in its low-cost, low-power product family.
  
  
• Altera Previews Productivity Benefits of OpenCL for FPGAs Through Early Access Program (Tuesday Aug. 28, 2012)
  Altera today announced its OpenCL (Open Computing Language) for FPGAs Early Access Program (EAP), enabling customers to get a first look at Altera’s OpenCL for FPGA solution.
  
  
• Lattice Announces Promotional Pricing For iCEblink40 Evaluation Kits (Monday Aug. 27, 2012)
  Lattice today announced promotional pricing for its recently released iCEblink40 Evaluation Kits. The iCE40™ mobileFPGA™ family, fabricated on non-volatile 40nm technology, is optimized for consumer and mobile applications that require low power, low cost and small footprint programmable logic devices.
  
  
• Xilinx Takes its Zynq-7000 All Programmable SoC to 1 GHz (Wednesday Aug. 08, 2012)
  Xilinx today announced it has increased the peak processing performance of the Zynq™-7000 All Programmable SoC family to 1 GHz, and is also providing smaller form factor packaging to enable higher system performance and programmable systems integration.
  
  
• FPGA vendors squabble over 28-nm market share (Thursday Aug. 02, 2012)
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• Altera Shipping Industry's Fastest Backplane-capable Transceivers in 28-nm Stratix V FPGAs (Tuesday Jul. 31, 2012)
  Altera today announced it is shipping in volume production the FPGA industry’s highest performance backplane-capable transceivers. Altera’s Stratix® V FPGAs are the industry’s only FPGAs to offer 14.1 Gbps transceiver bandwidth and are the only FPGAs capable of supporting the latest generation of the Fibre Channel protocol (16GFC).
  
  
• Lattice Semiconductor Announces Serial Image Sensor Bridge Support For Sony IMX136/104 (Monday Jul. 30, 2012)
  Lattice Semiconductor today announced that it has released a serial sub-LVDS bridge design to support the Sony IMX136 and IMX104 image sensors. The serial sub-LVDS format is expected to become Sony's primary image sensor interface for embedded/industrial users.
  
  
• Xilinx Delivers First Public Access Release of its Next-Generation Vivado Design Suite (Thursday Jul. 26, 2012)
  Vivado Design Suite 2012.2 delivers a highly Integrated Design Environment (IDE) with a completely new generation of system-to-IC tools that include High-Level Synthesis, RTL Synthesis with the industry's best SystemVerilog support, revolutionary analytical place and route, and an advanced SDC-based timing engine so developers can increase their productivity with a 4x acceleration in design implementation.
  
  
• Xilinx Ships First Artix-7 FPGAs - Raising the Performance Bar for Portable and Small Form Factor Applications at the 'Edge' (Tuesday Jul. 17, 2012)
  Xilinx today announced first shipments of its Artix™-7 Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) family. The new devices extend the reach of FPGA technology to applications requiring performance capabilities traditionally served by Virtex® FPGAs, but the form factor of small, low-cost programmable devices.
  
  
• Lattice Diamond 2.0 Software Unleashes Powerful Design Tools for the New Low Cost, Low Power LatticeECP4 FPGA Family (Monday Jul. 16, 2012)
  Lattice today announced version 2.0 of its Lattice Diamond design software. Version 2.0 includes advanced support for the new LatticeECP4 FPGA family, which redefines the low cost, low power, mid-range FPGA market for cost- and power-sensitive wireless, wireline, video and computing applications.
  
  
• Microsemi Announces Completion of 26 Million Device-Hours of FPGA Reliability Testing (Monday Jul. 16, 2012)
  Microsemi today announced that an independent organization has completed reliability testing of Microsemi's commercial-grade Axcelerator® FPGAs. The tests lasted more than four years with an accumulated total of more than 26 million device-hours of testing without a single antifuse failure.
  
  
• Lattice Semiconductor and Leopard Imaging, Texas Instruments Design Network Members, Announce Dual Camera Kit for Black Box Car Drive Recorders (Thursday Jul. 12, 2012)
  Lattice and Leopard Imaging today announced the release of a dual camera module kit that allows the DaVinci(TM) TMS320DM368 video processor from Texas Instruments Incorporated (TI) to interface to two 720p image sensors.
  
  
• Xilinx Announces Intention to Invest $50M in Expansion of Electronic Engineering Operations at EMEA Headquarters in Ireland (Wednesday Jul. 04, 2012)
  Xilinx today announced its intention to invest $50 million in an expansion of its electronics engineering operations at the company’s EMEA headquarters in Dublin and Cork. The company will recruit 45 senior silicon and electronics engineering staff for its regional headquarters in Dublin and for its engineering centre in Cork.
  
  
• New Xilinx Kintex-7 FPGA Connectivity Kit Dramatically Increases Productivity for Designing High Bandwidth Applications (Thursday Jun. 28, 2012)
  Xilinx today announced the availability of the Kintex™-7 FPGA Connectivity Kit for customers creating advanced serial I/O designs across a broad range of high bandwidth applications. The Kintex-7 FPGA Connectivity Kit dramatically increases designer productivity by including a fully validated and supported reference design that integrates an entire PCIe® solution with DDR3 sub-system, including both the HDL and the complete software stack.
  
  
• Xilinx Integrated Block for the PCI Express Gen3 Standard Accelerates Productivity and Increases System Performance (Wednesday Jun. 27, 2012)
  
  
  
• Altera and TI make RF design fast and easy with complete development kit for Arria V FPGAs (Monday Jun. 18, 2012)
  The modular Arria V FPGA RF Development Kit includes all the hardware and software needed for RF transmit, receive and digital pre-distortion feedback, reducing the amount of time needed to design and verify RF systems, such as wireless base stations, remote radio heads, and military radio and intelligence equipment, from months to weeks.
  
  
• Microsemi FPGAs and cSoCs Available for Extreme Temperature Environments (Thursday Jun. 14, 2012)
  Microsemi today announced that its FPGAs and SmartFusion® customizable system-on-chip (cSoC) solutions are now characterized at extreme operating temperatures ranging from 150 degrees Celsius to 200 degrees Celsius.
  
  
• Altera's Industry-proven Quartus II Software Delivers Up To 4X Faster Compile Times; Expands Support for 28-nm FPGAs (Tuesday Jun. 12, 2012)
  Altera today released the latest version of its industry-proven Quartus® II development software, the industry’s number one software in performance and productivity for FPGA design. Quartus II software version 12.0 provides customers additional productivity and performance advantages, such as up to 4X faster compile times for high-performance 28-nm designs.
  
  
• Lattice Programmable Power Manager Device Reduces Cost of Power Failure Protection for Solid State Drives (Monday Jun. 11, 2012)
  Lattice today announced power management solutions that will greatly simplify and increase the reliability of power failure protection circuitry in Solid State Drives (SSD).
  
  
• Lattice Ships First Samples of Low Cost, Low Power LatticeECP4 FPGAs (Wednesday Jun. 06, 2012)
  Lattice today announced that it has begun shipping the highest density member of its next generation LatticeECP4(TM) FPGA family. The new LatticeECP4 FPGA family offers the richest portfolio of low cost, low power mid-range devices under 200K LUTs, with high performance innovations such as 6G SERDES in low cost packages, powerful DSP blocks and built-in hard IP-based communication blocks.