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• Altera Releases Industry's First 28-nm FPGA Development Kit (Tuesday Sep. 06, 2011)
  Altera today reached another milestone in driving the industry's rollout of 28-nm FPGAs by announcing availability of the Stratix® V GX FPGA Signal Integrity Development Kit, the first development kit featuring 28-nm FPGAs.
  
  
• Industry-Leading Lattice MachXO2 PLD Family Now Available In Small WLCSP Package (Tuesday Sep. 06, 2011)
  Lattice Semiconductor today announced that it is now shipping samples of its MachXO2™ PLD family using a 2.5mmx2.5mm 25-ball Wafer Level Chip Scale Package (WLCSP).
  
  
• Tecnoroll Designs Spartan-6 FPGAs into New FLEXMod 3.0 Digital Video Broadcast Module (Tuesday Sep. 06, 2011)
  Xilinx today announced that longtime customer Tecnoroll BMB S.r.l. has designed Spartan®-6 FPGAs into its new FLEXMod 3.0 digital video broadcast module.
  
  
• NSA Approved Defense-Grade Spartan-6Q FPGA in Production for Highest Level Cryptographic Capabilities Strengthens Xilinx Secure Leadership (Wednesday Aug. 31, 2011)
  Xilinx, Inc. today announced that the low-cost, low-power defense-grade programmable solution for high assurance applications is in production and has been approved for use in Type 1 Cryptographic Systems by the National Security Agency (NSA).
  
  
• Microsemi Announces Availability of Cost-optimized SmartFusion cSoC Device (Thursday Aug. 25, 2011)
  Microsemi today announced the availability of its cost-optimized SmartFusion ® customizable system-on-chip (cSoC) device
  
  
• Altera Ships World's First 28-Gbps-Enabled FPGA for Next-Generation 100G Systems and Beyond (Wednesday Aug. 24, 2011)
  Altera today announced it has started shipping the world's first FPGA featuring 28-Gbps transceivers. Stratix ®V GT devices are the industry's highest bandwidth and highest performance FPGAs available today.
  
  
• XENTROTEC Selects the LatticeECP3 FPGA Family for Multi-Channel HD Video Multiplexer and HD-DVR Solutions (Monday Aug. 08, 2011)
  Lattice today announced that XENTROTEC CO., LTD., Seoul, Korea, has chosen the mid-range LatticeECP3™ FPGA for use in its digital video recorder (DVR) solution.
  
  
• Xilinx Flagship Spartan-6 FPGAs Built Into New National Instruments CompactRIO Systems and Single-Board RIO Devices (Wednesday Aug. 03, 2011)
  Xilinx today announced that National Instruments has expanded its NI Reconfigurable I/O (RIO) advanced control and monitoring product portfolio with the introduction of the highest performance and first multicore NI CompactRIO systems and smallest NI Single-Board RIO devices built using Xilinx flagship Spartan®-6 FPGAs.
  
  
• Microsemi Announces SmartFusion cSoC Support with FreeRTOS (Monday Jul. 25, 2011)
  Microsemi today announced its award-winning SmartFusion ® customizable system-on-chip (cSoC) devices are now supported by FreeRTOS, a scale-able real time kernel designed specifically for small embedded systems, and can be used in any type of application.
  
  
• Xilinx Space-Grade Virtex-5QV FPGA in Production with Mega-Rad Capability (Thursday Jul. 21, 2011)
  Xilinx today announced that its radiation-hardened-by-design space-grade Virtex®-5QV FPGA is available in production with greater than 1Mrad(Si) Total Ionizing Dose (TID) capabilities for supporting the broadest range of space borne missions from low-earth orbit and beyond.
  
  
• New Release of Lattice Diamond Design Software Delivers More Robust Design Capabilities for Low Power, Cost Sensitive FPGA Applications (Monday Jul. 18, 2011)
  Lattice today announced release 1.3 of its Lattice Diamond® design software, the flagship design environment for Lattice FPGA products.
  
  
• Lattice's New Mixed Signal Design Software Simplifies Platform Management Design (Monday Jul. 18, 2011)
  Lattice Semiconductor today announced release 6.1 of its PAC-Designer(R) mixed signal design software, with updated support for Lattice's Platform Manager(TM), Power Manager II and ispClock(TM) devices.
  
  
• Xilinx ISE Design Suite 13.2 Steps Up Designer Productivity and Brings Partial Reconfiguration to Kintex-7, Virtex-7 FPGAs (Wednesday Jul. 06, 2011)
  Latest release also includes improvements for Virtex-7 Quality of Results, enhancements to PlanAhead and continues delivering on Plug-and-Play IP initiative
  
  
• Logicview Selects Xilinx Virtex-6 FPGAs for Next Generation SoC Prototyping System & Emulation Platform (Tuesday Jul. 05, 2011)
  Xilinx, Inc. today announced that Logicview Electronic Technology Co., Ltd. has selected Virtex®-6 FPGAs for the company's next-generation prototyping system and hardware emulation platform slated for introduction in early 2012.
  
  
• Namsong Designs Spartan-6 into Newest Line of Multi-format Portable Field Monitors for Professional Broadcast Applications (Tuesday Jun. 28, 2011)
  Xilinx today announced that longtime customer Namsong Industrial Co., Ltd. has designed Xilinx's Spartan®-6 field programmable gate array (FPGA) into its newest line of professional, multi-format portable field monitors.
  
  
• SiliconGear Designs Spartan-6 FPGAs into Latest Generation High-Definition Video Security Surveillance & Video Display Platform (Tuesday Jun. 21, 2011)
  Xilinx today announced that SiliconGear has designed Xilinx's Spartan®-6 field programmable gate array (FPGA) into its latest generation high-definition (HD) video security and video display platform.
  
  
• Lattice Semiconductor and Digi-Key Sign Global Distribution Agreement (Tuesday May. 31, 2011)
  Lattice Semiconductor Corporation (NASDAQ: LSCC) and Digi-Key Corporation today announced they have signed a global distribution agreement. Under the terms of the agreement, Digi-Key is authorized to sell Lattice's complete portfolio of innovative low power, low cost FPGA, PLD and programmable power management design solutions.
  
  
• Lattice Semiconductor and System General Announce Programming Support for Lattice MachXO2 PLD Family (Monday May. 16, 2011)
  Lattice Semiconductor and System General today announced that both automated and manual programming systems now fully support the first member of the MachXO2(TM) PLD family, the 1200 LUT LCMXO2-1200.
  
  
• Altera's Quartus II Software Version 11.0 Features the Production Release of Qsys System Integration Tool (Monday May. 09, 2011)
  Altera today announced the release of its Quartus® II software version 11.0, the industry’s number one software in performance and productivity for CPLD, FPGA and HardCopy® ASIC designs.
  
  
• Xilinx Expands Portfolio for Meeting Critical High-Bandwidth and QoS Enterprise, Data Center, and Service Provider 100G System Needs (Monday May. 09, 2011)
  Xilinx acquires Modelware, leading provider of traffic management/packet processing solutions, and announces industry's first FPGA-based 100G traffic management reference design
  
  
• Lattice MachXO2 Pico Development Kit Simplifies Consumer Applications (Monday Apr. 25, 2011)
  Lattice Semiconductor today announced the immediate availability of its new $29 MachXO2™ Pico Development Kit for prototyping low power, space constrained consumer designs.
  
  
• Altera Breaks Semiconductor Industry Record for Most Transistors on an Integrated Circuit (Monday Apr. 18, 2011)
  Altera today announced it set an industry milestone in semiconductor technology by delivering the most transistors ever packed onto an integrated circuit. Altera's 28-nm Stratix ® V FPGAs are the semiconductor industry's first devices to feature 3.9 billion transistors.
  
  
• Lattice Semiconductor Announces Lowest Cost Design Platform for FPGAs With Configurable SERDES (Monday Apr. 18, 2011)
  Lattice today announced the immediate availability of the new LatticeECP3(TM) Versa Development Kit. The Versa Kit empowers mainstream customers to inexpensively evaluate the capabilities of high value design blocks in the award winning LatticeECP3 FPGAs: configurable SERDES, cascadable DSP slices and high-speed DDR3 memory controllers.
  
  
• Lattice Design Tools Provide Complete 8-Bit Microcontroller System Support for Cost Sensitive, Low Power PLD Applications (Monday Apr. 18, 2011)
  Lattice today announced release 1.2 of its Lattice Diamond(TM) FPGA design software tool suite. Users of the new MachXO2(TM) PLD devices can now generate complete systems based on the LatticeMico8(TM) open source 8-bit controller core using the LatticeMico(TM) System tool, which is available with the Lattice Diamond design environment.
  
  
• Xilinx Fueling Next Wave of Broadcast Industry Innovation With New 10 Gbps Video Over IP and Real-Time Video Engine Capabilities (Monday Apr. 11, 2011)
  Xilinx today announced at NAB 2011 x its Broadcast Real-Time Video Engine Targeted Design Platform and release of SMPTE2022 IP core for rapidly accelerating the development of hardware to process high quality video and deliver it at rates as high as 10 Gbps over Internet Protocol.
  
  
• SiliconBlue Unveils 40nm mobileFPGA Roadmap Targeting Sensor Management and Display/Video Custom Mobile Device (Monday Apr. 04, 2011)
  SiliconBlue® Technologies unveiled its mobileFPGA™ platform device roadmap utilizing TSMC’s leading edge 40nm low power standard CMOS process.
  
  
• Lattice Reference Design Enables Image Signal Processors (ISP) to Interface with APTINA HiSPi CMOS Sensors (Monday Apr. 04, 2011)
  Lattice today announced full support for Aptina's High-Speed Serial Pixel Interface (HiSPi) using LatticeXP2TM FPGAs. The LatticeXP2 HiSPi bridge reference design allows any Image Signal Processor (ISP) with a traditional CMOS parallel bus to interface with an Aptina HiSPi CMOS sensor.
  
  
• Lattice Now Shipping MachXO2 PLDs In Production (Monday Apr. 04, 2011)
  Lattice today announced that the MachXO2™ LCMXO2-1200 device has been qualified and released to production. Built on a low power 65-nm process, LCMXO2-1200 devices feature 1280 look-up tables (LUTs) and offer static power as low as 70uW.
  
  
• Altera Charts New Course for the Industry with Optical Innovation (Wednesday Mar. 30, 2011)
  Altera today announced plans for optically interconnected programmable devices. Altera is utilizing its knowledge of system interconnect technologies to enable direct optical interfaces in future device packages.
  
  
• New Low Cost Breakout Boards Accelerate PLD Design and Hardware Evaluation (Monday Mar. 28, 2011)
  Lattice Semiconductor today announced the immediate availability of three new low cost I/O Breakout Boards: the MachXO(TM) 2280 Breakout Board, the ispMACH(R) 4256ZE Breakout Board and the Power Manager II POWR1014A Breakout Board.