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• Altera Announces Industry's First OpenCL Program for FPGAs (Tuesday Nov. 15, 2011)
  Altera today announced a development program focused on the Open Computing Language (OpenCL™) standard for FPGAs and SoC FPGAs. The OpenCL standard is a C-based open standard for parallel programming.
  
  
• Xilinx Enables Cable Operators to Future-Proof Headends to Deliver More Compelling Triple-Play Services to the Home (Tuesday Nov. 15, 2011)
  Xilinx is demonstrating a cable industry first with Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs) delivering up to 160 QAM channels through a single RF port on Xilinx 28nm 7 series FPGAs.
  
  
• Toshiba Designs Altera's Programmable Platform into Its Next-Generation Flash Memory Video Server (Monday Nov. 14, 2011)
  Toshiba Expands Use of Altera Devices to Meet the High-Performance, Low-Cost Requirements of its Latest Flash Memory Video Solution
  
  
• Netezza, an IBM Company, Selects Lattice Power Manager Products (Monday Nov. 14, 2011)
  Lattice today announced that Netezza, an IBM Company and the leader in data warehouse appliances, is using the innovative programmable Lattice Power Manager device -- the PAC(TM) POWR 1220AT8 -- to integrate and simplify multiple power management functions in a board design.
  
  
• Xilinx Alliance Program Introduces Highly Qualified Premier Design Services Providers to Accelerate Customer Design Productivity (Monday Nov. 14, 2011)
  Xilinx today introduced the Premier Design Services membership tier of the Xilinx Alliance Program, as an extension of its Design Services member base, to help FPGA customers accelerate new product development and make it easier for FPGA users to find the right partner for their design and development needs.
  
  
• Altera's Stratix IV FPGAs Deliver Unprecedented Acceleration for World’s Most Powerful Reconfigurable Supercomputer (Friday Nov. 11, 2011)
  Altera today announced that the Center for High-Performance Reconfigurable Computing (CHREC) has selected the company's Stratix® IV FPGAs for its latest update to the Novo-G supercomputer.
  
  
• Altera's Military Solutions Secure Networked Battlefield with NSA-Approved Cyclone III LS FPGA (Wednesday Nov. 09, 2011)
  Altera today announced it will demonstrate at MILCOM 2011 its latest Single-FPGA Cryptography (SFC) solutions leveraging the low-power, low-cost Cyclone ® III LS FPGA which was approved in May 2011 by the National Security Agency (NSA) for use in Type 1 Cryptographic Systems.
  
  
• EIZO NANAO Designs Xilinx Spartan-6 FPGAs into Newest High-Definition LCD Home Entertainment Monitors (Tuesday Nov. 08, 2011)
  Xilinx today announced that EIZO has designed Xilinx Spartan®6 FPGAs into its 23-inch EIZO® FORIS® FS2332 color LCD (liquid crystal display) monitors for home entertainment.
  
  
• ZTE Designs Virtex-6 FPGAs Into IP Transport Network Platform, Enabling 100G Ethernet Service Deployment (Tuesday Nov. 08, 2011)
  Xilinx today announced that ZTE Corp., a publicly listed global provider of telecommunications equipment and network solutions, designed its packet-based multiservice bearer platform using high performance Xilinx Virtex®-6 FPGAs, enabling 100G Ethernet service deployment.
  
  
• Altera's Quartus II Software Version 11.1 Delivers Arria V and Cyclone V FPGA Support and Productivity Improvements (Monday Nov. 07, 2011)
  Altera today announced the release of its Quartus ® II software version 11.1, the industry’s number one design software in performance and productivity for CPLD, FPGA and HardCopy ® ASIC designs.
  
  
• Lattice Ships 15 Million Power Manager Devices (Monday Nov. 07, 2011)
  Lattice Semiconductor today announced that it has shipped more than 15 million Power Manager devices. All seven Power Manager devices have been broadly adopted in a wide range of high volume, cost sensitive applications because they enable board designers to integrate the multiple power management functions of a circuit board into a single programmable device.
  
  
• SiliconBlue Awarded ISO 9001 Quality Management System Standard Certification (Monday Nov. 07, 2011)
  SiliconBlue today announced that it has been awarded the ISO 9001:2008 registration (Certificate No: US004204-1) of its quality management system for the design and manufacture of its mobileFPGA™ devices.
  
  
• Xilinx ISE Design Suite 13.3 Full Custom Precision Floating-Point Support Extends Productivity for DSP Designers (Tuesday Nov. 01, 2011)
  Xilinx today announced the availability of ISE® Design Suite 13.3 featuring new capabilities for DSP designers to easily implement bit-accurate single, double and full custom precision floating-point math operations in their designs targeting wireless, medical, aerospace and defense, high-performance computing and video applications.
  
  
• SiliconBlue's New "Los Angeles" 40-nm Ultra-Low-Power 640, 1K and 4K LP and HX Devices Sampling (Monday Oct. 31, 2011)
  SiliconBlue today announced sampling availability of three new iCE40™ “Los Angeles” 640, 1K and 4K mobileFPGA™ devices. Fabricated on TSMC 40-nm, low-power standard CMOS process, the LP and HX families provide twice the logic capacity of previous 65-nm devices.
  
  
• Lattice, Valens Semiconductor Announce New Reference Design For The Surveillance Camera Market (Friday Oct. 28, 2011)
  Lattice Semiconductor and Valens Semiconductor today announced a new and comprehensive HDBaseT&trade camera reference design solution. The HDBaseT reference design is targeted at the surveillance market.
  
  
• Xilinx Ships World's Highest Capacity FPGA and Shatters Industry Record for Number of Transistors by 2X (Tuesday Oct. 25, 2011)
  Virtex-7 2000T FPGA Device First to Use 2.5-D IC Stacked Silicon Interconnect Technology to Deliver More than Moore and 6.8 Billion Transistors, 2X the Size of Competing Devices
  
  
• Xilinx Continues Record Fast 7 Series FPGA Product Rollout, Secures Over 200 Design Wins & Ships Thousands of Devices Worldwide (Monday Oct. 24, 2011)
  Xilinx, Inc. today announced it has reached an industry milestone with over 200 design wins in just over six months for its newest line of 7 series FPGA (field programmable gate array) devices, which began shipping in March of this year.
  
  
• Altera's 28-nm Stratix V FPGA Selected by Infinera For Use in DTN-X Multi-Terabit Packet-Optical Transport Network Platform (Friday Oct. 21, 2011)
  Altera today announced its 28-nm Stratix® V GX FPGAs were selected by Infinera for use in its recently announced DTN-X multi-terabit packet-optical transport network (P-OTN) platform.
  
  
• Altera and Eutecus Announce World's First 1080p/30fps Video Analytics Solution on an FPGA (Tuesday Oct. 18, 2011)
  Altera Corporation (NASDAQ: ALTR) announces the world's first FPGA-based full-HD 1080p/(30 frames per second) 30fps video analytics on a Cyclone® IV FPGA. The solution includes Eutecus' Multi-Core Video Analytics Engine (MVE™) intellectual property (IP), which performs the analytics functions in the FPGA.
  
  
• Lattice Announces New Release of ispLEVER Classic Design Tool Suite (Monday Oct. 17, 2011)
  Lattice today announced the immediate availability of its ispLEVER(R) Classic version 1.5 design tool suite.
  
  
• Lattice Announces New Release of ispLEVER Classic Design Tool Suite (Monday Oct. 17, 2011)
  Lattice Semiconductor Corporation (NASDAQ: LSCC) today announced the immediate availability of its ispLEVER(R) Classic version 1.5 design tool suite.
  
  
• Altera Introduces SoC FPGAs: Integrating ARM Processor System and FPGA into 28-nm Single-Chip Solution (Tuesday Oct. 11, 2011)
  Altera today unveiled its family of ARM-based SoC FPGAs, integrating 28-nm Cyclone® V and Arria® V FPGA fabric, a dual-core ARM® Cortex(TM)-A9 MPCore(TM) processor, error correcting code (ECC) protected memory controllers, peripherals and high-bandwidth interconnect into a single chip.
  
  
• Altera Releases FPGA Industry's First Virtual Target for Software Development on SoC FPGAs (Tuesday Oct. 11, 2011)
  Based on proven virtual prototyping solutions from Synopsys, Inc., the SoC FPGA Virtual Target is a PC-based functional simulation of an Altera SoC FPGA development board. The Virtual Target is a binary- and register-compatible, functional equivalent of an SoC FPGA board, ensuring that software developed on the Virtual Target can be moved to the actual board with minimal effort.
  
  
• Micro/sys, Inc. Uses Xilinx Spartan-6 FPGA to Build Integrated FPGA & ARM Cortex-A8 Processor Single-Board Computer (Tuesday Sep. 13, 2011)
  Xilinx today announced that Micro/sys, Inc. has built a small, low-power, rugged board using an integrated Spartan®-6 FPGA with MicroBlaze(TM) processor sub-system and ARM® Cortex(TM)-A8 processor.
  
  
• Altera Demonstrates Industry's First Model-Based Floating-Point DSP Capabilities for FPGAs (Monday Sep. 12, 2011)
  Altera's New Highly-Efficient Floating-Point DSP Design Flow Validated by BDTI, Industry's Most Trusted Source of Independent DSP Technology Analysis
  
  
• Lattice Launches Power & Platform Management Seminars and Lowers Price of Evaluation Boards and Platform Manager Devices (Monday Sep. 12, 2011)
  Board Designers Can Learn to Reduce Power and Platform Management Costs up to 50%, Increase Reliability and Reduce the Risk of Board Re-Spins
  
  
• Upcoming Xilinx FPGA shows 3-D IC progress (Thursday Sep. 08, 2011)
  Xilinx will ship an FPGA with two million logic cells this year thanks to new 3-D IC techniques, and TSMC said it may have an end-to-end 3-D IC flow in 2012.
  
  
• Altera Rolls Out New, Easy-To-Use Arria V Early Power Estimator Tool (Thursday Sep. 08, 2011)
  Altera today announced its new Arria® V PowerPlay Early Power Estimator (EPE) tool in conjunction with the How Low Can You Go with Arria V FPGAs? drawing
  
  
• SIGMA Corp. Designs Xilinx Spartan-6 FPGAs Into Newest Line of SIGMA SD1 High-Performance Digital Cameras (Thursday Sep. 08, 2011)
  Xilinx today announced that longtime customer, SIGMA Corp., has designed Spartan®-6 FPGAs into its flagship digital single lens reflex (DSLR) camera, the SIGMA SD1, for professional and enthusiast photographers.
  
  
• SiliconBlue Ships 10 Millionth Custom Mobile Device (Wednesday Sep. 07, 2011)
  SiliconBlue today announced that it has shipped its ten millionth device since the introduction of the iCE65™ mobileFPGA™ family in 2009.