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• Xilinx and OmniTek Successfully Deploy Advanced Video Processing Platform (Monday Apr. 14, 2008)
  Industry's first development platform to bridge SD/HD/3G-SDI to the PCI Express standard enjoys broad adoption among designers of broadcast and digital cinema equipment
  
  
• Altera Demonstrates 3-Gbps SDI Leadership and 1080p Video Framework at NAB Show 2008 (Tuesday Apr. 08, 2008)
  Altera Corporation and its high-definition (HD) video partners will showcase a broad portfolio of industry-leading programmable solutions, including a 3-Gbps serial digital interface (SDI) for use in broadcast system designs, at the upcoming NAB Show 2008
  
  
• Harris Corporation Selects Altera Stratix II GX FPGAs for Platinum Line of Routing Switchers (Tuesday Apr. 08, 2008)
  Using the Stratix II GX FPGA, Harris Platinum routing switchers combine the best of both high-bandwidth video signal routing and an internal Time Division Multiplexing (TDM) architecture to provide the world’s only embedded audio infrastructure router.
  
  
• Xilinx Introduces the Industry's Highest Performance, Largest Capacity FPGAs for Space Applications (Monday Apr. 07, 2008)
  New reprogrammable, radiation-tolerant Virtex-4QV family optimized for high-performance logic, DSP, and embedded processing
  
  
• Altera Broadens Markets for Arria GX Family (Monday Apr. 07, 2008)
  Altera Corporation today announced its ArriaTM GX FPGA family now offers support for transceiver speeds up to 3.125 Gbps, additional serial protocols and reduced static power.
  
  
• Xilinx Ships Virtex-5 FXT FPGAs, Delivering the Ultimate in System Integration for Designs That Demand High-Performance Processing and High-Speed Serial I/O (Tuesday Apr. 01, 2008)
  Fourth Platform in 65nm Virtex-5 Family of FPGAs Now Available With PowerPC 440 Processor Block, GTX High Speed Transceivers, and over 190 GMACs DSP performance
  
  
• Altera's Low-Power Cyclone III FPGAs Deliver Highest Integration for Portable Applications (Tuesday Mar. 25, 2008)
  Designers of space-constrained high-volume applications in consumer, military and industrial markets can now take advantage of the combined lowest power and density leadership of the Cyclone III devices.
  
  
• Xilinx Delivers Complete Design Tools Suite - Providing Breakthrough Improvements in Productivity, Performance & Power (Monday Mar. 24, 2008)
  Single unified delivery of total customer solution for FPGA logic, embedded and DSP designers delivers 2X faster run times and up to 38% faster performance
  
  
• Altera FPGA Employed in EONIC's Electronic Warfare System (Monday Mar. 24, 2008)
  Altera Corporation today announced its Stratix® II FPGAs have been selected by EONIC B.V. for use in its SR‑5124 converged multi-channel signals acquisition system.
  
  
• Altera and Bitec Deliver Platform for Next-Generation Video System Development (Wednesday Mar. 19, 2008)
  At the heart of the kit are Altera’s Cyclone® III FPGAs, which are an ideal video processing platform given the device’s large parallel processing capabilities with up to 288 multipliers, 4-Mbit embedded memory blocks, and low power consumption.
  
  
• Xilinx Delivers Complete Virtex-5 FPGA Solution for XAUI Protocol (Monday Mar. 17, 2008)
  The complete solution includes a reference design, XAUI protocol characterization report for GTP transceivers, access to Xilinx(R) LogiCORE(TM) IP, and a PCIe(R) add-in card with CX4 connector development board.
  
  
• Actel Ices Competition With New Low-Power, I/O-Optimized FPGA Family (Monday Mar. 17, 2008)
  Actel Corporation today introduced IGLOO® PLUS, a new family of low-power field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) with the industry's best power-, area-, logic- and feature-per-I/O ratios in a programmable device
  
  
• ZTE Leverages Altera Stratix II FPGAs to Deliver New TD-SCDMA Remote Radio Unit (Monday Mar. 17, 2008)
  In the ZTE RRU, the Stratix II device performs all major digital intermediate frequency (IF) functions.
  
  
• Actel Fusion PSC Delivers Highest Accuracy for Intelligent System Management and Industrial Control (Monday Mar. 10, 2008)
  With analog-to-digital converter (ADC) accuracy as high as 0.53 percent, the new Fusion PSC calibration intellectual property (IP) solution eliminates the additional discrete ADCs and pre-scalers often required to achieve this level of accuracy.
  
  
• SiliconBlue 65-nm FPGAs run on microamps (Friday Mar. 07, 2008)
  SiliconBlue Technologies Corp. (Sunnyvale Calif.) is offering a family of low-power FPGAs implemented on a 65-nm CMOS manufacturing process
  
  
• Xilinx Accelerates Development of SFI-5 Applications With Hardware-Verified Solutions (Tuesday Mar. 04, 2008)
  Xilinx today announced availability of a free hardware-verified reference design and 3rd party IP for the optical internetworking forum (OIF) SERDES framer interface level 5 (SFI-5) standard.
  
  
• Xilinx Delivers Complete XtremeDSP Development Platform for Low Cost Video Development (Tuesday Feb. 26, 2008)
  This new kit gives designers of video applications everything they need to accelerate their development including robust video specific intellectual property (IP), reference designs, XtremeDSP and Xilinx Embedded Processing development tools, and a Spartan-3A DSP FPGA development board with video daughter card.
  
  
• Xilinx Introduces XtremeDSP Starter Kit for Low-Cost DSP Systems Development with Spartan-3A DSP FPGAs (Tuesday Feb. 26, 2008)
  The new kit delivers a complete solution for cost-sensitive DSP application development such as portable medical equipment, low-cost wireless infrastructure, flat panel displays and many other applications that require DSP performance along with low cost and low power.
  
  
• Xilinx Delivers New Embedded Development Kit for Building Low-Cost Spartan FPGA-Based MicroBlaze Processor Systems With Linux OS (Monday Feb. 25, 2008)
  The kit provides design teams with a low-cost Spartan-3A DSP FPGA development board and a complete set of hardware and development tools, including the award winning Platform Studio embedded design tool suite which includes an Eclipse-based Software Development Kit (SDK) and ISE(TM) WebPACK(TM) design tools.
  
  
• LatticeXP2 Non-Volatile FPGA Devices Move to Volume Production (Wednesday Feb. 20, 2008)
  Lattice Semiconductor Corporation today announced that the 17K LUT LatticeXP2 –17 device, one of five members of its third-generation non-volatile LatticeXP2™ FPGA family, has been fully qualified and released to volume production
  
  
• Lattice Announces uClinux Support for Open Source Embedded Systems Design (Tuesday Feb. 19, 2008)
  Lattice Semiconductor today expanded its commitment to open source embedded system design by releasing an implementation of the uClinux Operating System (OS) targeted for its LatticeMico32™ embedded soft core processor
  
  
• Altera Fuels Its Automotive Electronics Portfolio (Tuesday Feb. 19, 2008)
  Providing a platform for innovation in the automotive electronics market, Altera Corporation today announced it will begin shipping automotive-grade devices for selected members of its CPLD, FPGA and structured ASIC device families
  
  
• Actel Offers New Low-Power IGLOO and ProASIC3 FPGAs for 99 Cents (Tuesday Feb. 19, 2008)
  Comparable in density to 128 macrocell complex programmable logic device (CPLD) offerings, the new 15,000-gate devices offer power consumption as low as 5 microwatts (5µW), 10 times less static power than more expensive CPLDs
  
  
• R-Interface joins the Xilinx Alliance Program bringing high speed LDPC decoder solutions (Friday Feb. 15, 2008)
  R-Interface announced that it has joined the Xilinx(R) Alliance Program. The Company also announced the availability of a new LDPC (Low Density Parity check) platform IP core optimized for Xilinx® 65nm Virtex™ FPGA and low-cost Spartan™ FPGA families.
  
  
• Xilinx Virtex-5 LXT Platform FPGAs Used in NEC's SX-9; World's Fastest Vector Supercomputer (Wednesday Feb. 13, 2008)
  With its PCI Express(R) Endpoint blocks and RocketIO(TM) GTP transceivers, NEC chose the Virtex-5 LXT platform for its ability to support the unique SX I/O interface.
  
  
• Xilinx Announces Digital Pre-Distortion Reference Design for Freescale's LDMOS Power Amplifier Devices (Monday Feb. 11, 2008)
  The Xilinx DPD reference design can be used to develop LTE, WiMAX, WCDMA and TD-SCDMA multi-carrier systems and complements existing Digital Front End reference designs available from Xilinx.
  
  
• Lattice and Praesum Communications Deliver Low-Cost Serial RapidIO Solutions (Tuesday Jan. 29, 2008)
  The Praesum core supports RapidIO 1x connectivity at data rates up to 3.125 Gbps. Depending upon the chosen feature set, the RapidIO 1.3 compliant core consumes 50 - 70% of an LFE2M20, the smallest member of the LatticeECP2M family.
  
  
• Xilinx Launches New XtremeDSP Development Tools Package and XtremeDSP Development Kit (Monday Jan. 28, 2008)
  AccelDSP synthesis tool now offered with System Generator for DSP to include floating- to fixed-point conversion and architectural exploration of MATLAB algorithms
  
  
• Actel Announces Availability of MIL-STD 883 Class B Qualified Four-Million Gate RTAX4000S (Monday Jan. 28, 2008)
  Actel Corporation today announced it has completed the stringent MIL-STD 883 Class B qualification of its four-million gate radiation-tolerant RTAX-S field-programmable gate array (FPGA).
  
  
• Lattice Announces ispLEVER 7.0 Service Pack 2 FPGA Design Tool Suite (Monday Jan. 28, 2008)
  The release adds additional usability and accuracy enhancements to the Power Calculator, new versions of Synplicity’s Synplify synthesis and Mentor Graphics’ Precision RTL synthesis, and new support for the LatticeMico32™ embedded open source microprocessor.