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• Altera's Stratix III FPGAs Deliver Advanced Computing Power and Performance in Quasonix's Latest Telemetry Products (Wednesday Oct. 22, 2008)
  Altera today announced Quasonix, LLC is leveraging Stratix® III FPGAs in its latest DMS™ Telemetry Demodulator and RDMS™ Airborne Telemetry Receiver products.
  
  
• Xilinx Automotive Solutions Enable Networking for Vehicle Infotainment Systems Using MOST Standard (Tuesday Oct. 21, 2008)
  XA development platform powers in-vehicle networking and advanced audio/video functions for rear-seat entertainment unit
  
  
• Altera Demonstrates Its Automotive In-Cabin Infotainment Development Platform at Convergence 2008 (Monday Oct. 20, 2008)
  Altera’s FPGA-based P.A.R.I.S. Platform includes pre-verified IP from more than a dozen third-party hardware and software vendors. Using the P.A.R.I.S. Platform, automotive designers can easily expand the functions of their automotive systems and seamlessly migrate their FPGA-based systems across multiple vehicle classes.
  
  
• Xilinx Automotive Solutions Go Beyond Silicon to Accelerate Development of Driver Assistance and Driver Information Systems (Monday Oct. 20, 2008)
  Xilinx Showcases IP and Software Capabilities of Latest XA Solutions Optimized for Vision-based Applications
  
  
• Pigeon Point Systems Unveils Breakthrough Integrated HPI for Leading ATCA Shelf Manager (Monday Oct. 20, 2008)
  Pigeon Point Systems today introduced its new IntegralHPI™, an innovative implementation of the Hardware Platform Interface (HPI) that can be installed as an integrated subsystem of the company's market-leading Shelf Manager.
  
  
• Actel Addresses Miniaturization and Portability Trends in Medical Equipment (Monday Oct. 13, 2008)
  Highly Reliable, Mixed-Signal Fusion and Low-Power IGLOO FPGAs Advance Medical Applications
  
  
• Phabrix Leverages Xilinx Programmable Solutions in Award-Winning Handheld 3G-SDI Test Signal Analyzer for Broadcast Applications (Thursday Oct. 09, 2008)
  Xilinx, Inc. today announced that Phabrix has leveraged Xilinx low-cost, low-power programmable solutions to enable the industry's first handheld 3G-SDI test signal analyzers
  
  
• Lattice Accelerates PCI Express System Design With New Low Cost LatticeECP2M Development Kit (Monday Oct. 06, 2008)
  Based on a new PCI Express x1/x4 evaluation board, the kit accelerates development of PCI Express designs using the LatticeECP2M family.
  
  
• Xilinx Ships Industry's Largest Domain-Optimized FPGAs for Communication, DSP and Embedded Processing Applications (Tuesday Sep. 23, 2008)
  To support system architects and designers of high-performance systems in meeting their performance, power consumption and time to market goals, Xilinx, Inc. today began shipping the Virtex(R)-5 SX240T and FX200T devices and has announced the new Virtex-5 TXT FPGA platform.
  
  
• Virtex-5 TXT Platform Delivers First Single FPGA Solution for Building 40G and 100G Telecommunications Equipment (Tuesday Sep. 23, 2008)
  Aimed at spurring innovation and growth in the 40- and 100-Gigabit Ethernet (GE) market, Xilinx has added the Virtex(R)-5 TXT platform to its industry-leading, high-performance family of 65-nanometer (nm) field programmable gate arrays (FPGAs).
  
  
• Cypress Combines PSoC and Non-Volatile SRAM Technologies for Fail-Safe, Mixed-Signal Data Logging (Monday Sep. 22, 2008)
  New PSoC NV Family Unites Unlimited Read, Write and Recall Endurance of nvSRAMs With Flexibility and Integration of PSoC Architecture
  
  
• HPC Platform Selects Altera Stratix II FPGA Family for New HMPE System (Wednesday Sep. 17, 2008)
  The HPC Platform HPME is based on a PCI Express (PCIe) board with a Stratix II GX FPGA that interfaces to several other boards with embedded QDRII memory and a Stratix II FPGA for acceleration (algorithmic processing).
  
  
• Achronix Semiconductor Launched to Break through FPGA Performance Barriers (Tuesday Sep. 16, 2008)
  Achronix Semiconductor today announced that it has already begun shipping the world's fastest FPGAs. The Speedster family, with the SPD60 as its initial member, delivers speeds up to 1.5 GHz, which represents a three-fold increase in performance over existing FPGAs.
  
  
• Actel Adds Sophisticated DSP Capabilities to Industry-Leading RTAX Space FPGAs (Monday Sep. 15, 2008)
  The RTAX-DSP family combines Actel's successful radiation-tolerant RTAX-S FPGA fabric with a high-speed multiply-accumulate (MAC) capability on a single chip.
  
  
• Lattice Delivers Industry's Fastest RLDRAM I/II Memory Controller Support (Monday Sep. 15, 2008)
  The high-speed RLDRAM I and RLDRAM II memory controller IP (intellectual property) is implemented in Lattice’s low power MACO™ (Masked Array for Cost Optimization) structured ASIC technology.
  
  
• Actel Launches Flash-Based FPGAs into Space (Monday Sep. 15, 2008)
  Continuing to deliver innovative silicon solutions that meet the needs of aerospace designers, Actel today introduced the industry's first radiation-tolerant, flash-based FPGAs for space-flight applications.
  
  
• Altera Devices Offer Full Support of XAUI Protocol With 10-Gigabit Ethernet Reference Design (Monday Sep. 15, 2008)
  Altera’s 10GbE solution is IEEE 802.3ae standard compliant and successfully passed the University of New Hampshire Interoperability Lab (UNH-IOL) 10GbE tests.
  
  
• Thomson Selects Altera FPGAs for New Slow Motion Cameras (Wednesday Sep. 10, 2008)
  Altera’s Cyclone and Stratix FPGAs enable high quality slow-motion replay with low power consumption
  
  
• Newtec Selects Altera's Cyclone II FPGAs for Satellite Broadband Terminal (Wednesday Sep. 10, 2008)
  Altera’s Cyclone II FPGAs offer high performance and flexibility in Newtec’s two-way satellite broadband terminal
  
  
• Sanyo Denki Selects Actel Fusion for Industrial Encoder (Monday Sep. 08, 2008)
  Selected for its low power, high accuracy and integration capabilities, the 600,000-gate AFS600 Actel Fusion device serves as the main process circuit, converting signals from the resolver into position data.
  
  
• Lattice Announces ispLEVER 7.1 Service Pack 1 FPGA Design Tool Suite (Monday Sep. 08, 2008)
  The release integrates Lattice’s ORCAstra configuration design utility, features Reveal™ Logic Analyzer support on the Linux Operating System, adds new versions of Synopsys’ Synplify® Pro synthesis and Aldec’s Active-HDL™ Lattice Edition simulator, includes support for automotive temperature grade LatticeXP2™ FPGAs and provides the latest LatticeMico32™ embedded open source microprocessor enhancements.
  
  
• Avnet and Cypress Release Upgraded Spartan-3A FPGA Evaluation Kit (Tuesday Sep. 02, 2008)
  The upgraded kit includes the addition of Cypress’ CY3217 (MiniProg) Programmer to the Xilinx Spartan-3A FPGA Evaluation Kit, which enables touch sensing capability, USB connectivity and analog programming.
  
  
• Configurable Video Platform Now Available for the LatticeECP2 FPGA Family (Thursday Aug. 28, 2008)
  Arrow Electronics and Exor/Sitek International Develop a Flexible Image Processing Platform that Includes Boards and Intellectual Property for the LatticeECP2 FPGA
  
  
• FPGA Architecture Patent Granted to O2Micro (Tuesday Aug. 26, 2008)
  O2Micro International, a leading supplier of innovative power management and security components and systems, was issued 21 claims under United States patent number 7,391,237 for its Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) Architecture Upgrade.
  
  
• Lattice ispLEVER Classic Design Tools Now Support New CPLD Family (Monday Aug. 25, 2008)
  Lattice’s ispLEVER Classic tools now provide full production support for the recently released ultra low power ispMACH® 4000ZE CPLD family and also include user-friendly support for several innovative new silicon functions.
  
  
• Actel Achieves Rigorous SAE/AS9100 Aerospace Certification (Thursday Aug. 21, 2008)
  Actel today announced it has become the first field-programmable gate array (FPGA) vendor to achieve SAE/AS9100 certification.
  
  
• Mentor Graphics and Altera Partner on DO-254 (Tuesday Aug. 19, 2008)
  Mentor Joins Altera’s DO-254 Global Partner Network; Announces Joint Development of DO-254-Certifiable IP
  
  
• Xilinx Extends Spartan-3A FPGA Family, Enables Lower Total System Costs for High-Volume, Cost-Sensitive Applications (Monday Aug. 18, 2008)
  Industry-leading Product Line Delivers 50% Lower System Cost with New Small Form Factor FPGAs for High-Volume Applications
  
  
• New Lattice Mixed Signal Software Design Tool Supports Automotive Versions of Power Manager II Devices (Monday Aug. 18, 2008)
  Lattice Semiconductor today announced the release of its PAC-Designer® software design tool suite, version 4.99a.
  
  
• XLoom Communications Reduces Costs, Lab Space and Energy Usage With Altera FPGA Development Board (Monday Aug. 11, 2008)
  Altera’s FPGA-based development board enables XLoom to test its chip-scale optoelectronic interconnect modules more cost-effectively compared to traditional BER testing equipment.