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• Xilinx Announces Commercial Availability of First Front Side Bus FPGA High Performance Computing Solution for Intel(R) Xeon(R) 7300 Series Platforms (Monday Nov. 12, 2007)
  Xilinx today announced it has begun commercial licensing of the high-performance computing industry's first FPGA-based acceleration solution to interface with the Intel Front Side Bus (FSB).
  
  
• Xilinx Demonstrates Spartan-3 FPGA-based Machine Vision Solution at Vision 2007 (Tuesday Nov. 06, 2007)
  Xilinx today announced it will demonstrate the industry's first FPGA-based GigE Vision IP core solution using its leading low-cost Spartan(TM)-3 generation FPGAs.
  
  
• Xilinx and Thales to Demonstrate Partially Reconfigurable FPGA-Based Architecture at Software Defined Radio Technical Conference (Monday Nov. 05, 2007)
  Xilinx and Thales today announced they will demonstrate a partially reconfigurable FPGA-based single chip architecture in a SCA (Software Communication Architecture) compatible environment for military radios.
  
  
• Synplicity and Lattice Expand Partnership to Include DSP Synthesis (Monday Nov. 05, 2007)
  Powerful DSP Algorithm Implementation Targets Aerospace, Wireless, Telecom and Digital Multimedia Applications
  
  
• GiDEL Utilizes Altera's Stratix FPGA Families in Latest Development Systems (Tuesday Oct. 30, 2007)
  The high-performance Altera® Stratix FPGAs allow GiDEL to integrate more functions and maximize system performance in its new development systems targeting PCIe applications and designers.
  
  
• Altera Ships Arria GX Development Kit for Low-Cost FPGA Transceiver-Based Designs (Monday Oct. 29, 2007)
  The Arria GX Development Kit delivers a robust environment for the development and testing of designs implementing high-speed serial interfaces such as PCI Express (PCIe), Serial RapidIO® (SRIO), and Gigabit Ethernet (Gbe). The kit helps designers achieve significant cost savings and a dramatic reduction in overall design time. The development kit can be used by system designers as a starting point for their own designs.
  
  
• Lattice Semiconductor and Dune Networks Announce Collaboration To Develop SPAUI-Based Network Solutions (Monday Oct. 29, 2007)
  Lattice Semiconductor, a leading FPGA provider, and Dune Networks, a provider of networking devices for Data Center, Enterprise and Carrier Ethernet scalable switching platforms, today announced they will collaborate in the development and marketing of SPAUI-based networking solutions.
  
  
• Xilinx Announces Record Sales of 90nm & 65nm Product Lines (Wednesday Oct. 24, 2007)
  APAC sales from these products increased nearly 500 percent in the September quarter of fiscal 2008 versus the same quarter in fiscal 2006. Xilinx estimates its cumulative PLD market segment share on 90nm and 65nm products to be approaching 70 percent.
  
  
• TrellisWare Employs Altera's Stratix II FPGAs in New RapidFire Development Platform (Wednesday Oct. 24, 2007)
  The RapidFire development board enables fast prototyping and testing of complex physical-layer designs. The board hosts two Stratix II FPGAs, which offer designers a high-density solution rich in logic and RAM blocks, ideal for hardware acceleration of even the most advanced commercial and military communication architectures.
  
  
• Altera and BittWare Jointly Develop Software Programmable Reconfiguration Platform (Wednesday Oct. 24, 2007)
  The SPR platform leverages AMC and MicroTCA form factors with BittWare’s hybrid FPGA coprocessing products and Altera’s low-power, low cost and high-functionality Cyclone® III FPGA family.
  
  
• Altera Rolls Out MSAN Partner Ecosystem for Broadband Access Applications (Monday Oct. 22, 2007)
  Altera’s MSAN Partner Ecosystem includes Ethernity Networks, AimValley, MorethanIP and Sarance Technologies. Each of these partners provides a unique and complementary intellectual property (IP) solution designed to bolster Altera’s FPGA solutions.
  
  
• Altera and TRS-STAR Announce Automotive Industry's First Scalable Infotainment Platform (Thursday Oct. 11, 2007)
  The PARIS platform supports CAN, MOST, USB, Ethernet and SDHC interfaces and features a scalable automotive graphics system with multiple video-in and video-out functionalities, an audio processing module, and an application processor.
  
  
• Altera bases 45-nm success on TSMC relationship (Tuesday Oct. 09, 2007)
  Altera and TSMC are at it again. Altera's next venture into a family of FPGAs that will be produced in the 45-nm process node is riding on the success of its earlier 65-nm successful relationship with foundry TSMC.
  
  
• Helion Vision Selects the LatticeXP2 FPGA for its Next Generation Camera Modules (Wednesday Oct. 03, 2007)
  The next generation of camera modules from Helion, planned for release in early 2008, will use the LatticeXP2 FPGAs for Helion’s IONOS-series to perform all necessary image-processing tasks in real time with a very low latency.
  
  
• Altera Extends Productivity Advantage With Quartus II Software Version 7.2 (Tuesday Oct. 02, 2007)
  Development Software Enables Stratix III FPGAs to Achieve 3X Faster Compile Times Compared to Competing High-End 65-nm Devices
  
  
• Lattice ispLever 7.0 Service Pack 1 FPGA Design Tool Suite Now Available (Monday Oct. 01, 2007)
  Complete support for the LatticeXP2™ 90nm non-volatile FPGA family is included. Also available with Service Pack 1 are the Reveal™ Logic Analyzer, Lattice's second generation logic analysis/hardware debug tool, several enhancements that make the Power Calculator tool even more accurate and user-friendly and a PCI Target peripheral for the LatticeMico32™ embedded open source microprocessor.
  
  
• Newly-funded M2000 preps FPGA product family (Friday Sep. 28, 2007)
  M2000 Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.) a programmable logic intellectual property licensor founded in France in 1996 is about to launch what it describes as a "breakthrough" in programmable logic technology. The company claims that its technology will provide higher logic density, functionality and speed at less cost than competing solutions.
  
  
• Xilinx Announces New Low Cost, High Performance DSP Development Platform (Monday Sep. 24, 2007)
  Xilinx today introduced a low-cost development platform for implementing DSP designs using the Spartan(TM)-3A DSP family of low-cost FPGAs.
  
  
• Lattice Semiconductor and Silicon Laboratories Collaborate on SONET/SDH Compliant Solutions (Monday Sep. 24, 2007)
  Lattice Semiconductor and Silicon Laboratories today announced they will cooperate in the marketing of ITU G.707 and GR-253-CORE compliant solutions for telecom applications that provide customers with flexibility, high performance and quicker time to market.
  
  
• Xilinx Teams With Industry Leaders to Accelerate Time-to-Market With Virtex-5 LXT FPGA Solutions for PCI Express (Wednesday Sep. 19, 2007)
  The solutions include software/driver development kits, reference designs, and IP from a growing list of companies that make up an ecosystem of independent design service and IP vendors. These ecosystem solutions are immediately available from CG-CoreEl systems, Jungo, and Northwest Logic.
  
  
• Altera and Xtremedata Show Industry's Highest Performance Front Side Bus Module for Intel Xeon Processor-Based Platforms (Tuesday Sep. 18, 2007)
  The combination of an Intel Xeon 5300 series processor and Stratix III FPGA coprocessor in the XD2000i module provides customers with the highest performance FSB accelerator available. The XD2000i provides high-performance application acceleration ranging from 10X to 100X compared to processors alone, while simultaneously reducing overall system power consumption.
  
  
• Actel Addresses Rapidly Expanding Portable Market with Industry's Lowest Power FPGAs (Monday Sep. 17, 2007)
  Leveraging the company's leading power-efficient IGLOO FPGAs and ARM Cortex-M1 processor technologies, the company today introduced its new M1-enabled IGLOO FPGAs which offer significant power, cost and size advantages for portable applications
  
  
• Altera Unveils Industry's First Plug & Play Signal Integrity Technology (Tuesday Sep. 11, 2007)
  Altera’s Plug & Play Signal Integrity technology is an exclusive combination of low-power linear adaptive equalization technology—Altera’s new Adaptive Dispersion Compensation Engine (ADCE)—and the hot-socketing capability found in every Altera® FPGA
  
  
• Lattice Delivers Industry's Smallest Footprint, Lowest Power Programmable Bridge Solution (Monday Sep. 10, 2007)
  The solution, which utilizes the LatticeSCM device’s System Packet Interface Level 4 Phase 2 (SPI4.2) hard IP capability, and includes Lattice's 10Gigabit Ethernet Media Access Controller (MAC) soft IP core and the XAUI/HiGig/HiGig+ to SPI4.2 bridge design, provides a high-performance interface between the SERDES-based XAUI standard, used ubiquitously in 10G Ethernet networks, and SPI4.2, a very popular parallel bus interface used by Network Processor Unit (NPU) devices.
  
  
• Mindray Selects Actel Low-power Flash FPGAs for Demanding Medical Equipment Applications (Monday Sep. 10, 2007)
  Actel's ProASIC3 Solutions Offer Low-power Operation and Protect Valuable Intellectual Property for Portable Patient Monitoring Systems
  
  
• Altera Premieres High Definition Quality Initiative (Friday Sep. 07, 2007)
  Backed by an ecosystem of partners with expertise in the HD space, the initiative’s objective is to enable designers to quickly and cost-effectively address the rapidly growing need for high-quality HD systems. 4i2i, ATEME, Let It Wave and PLDA are among the initiative’s founding member
  
  
• Lattice to Showcase Industry's First True 90nm Non-Volatile FPGA at the Embedded Systems Conference Boston (Thursday Sep. 06, 2007)
  The new LatticeXP2 non-volatile FPGAs combine SRAM and embedded Flash technologies to provide infinite reconfigurability and easy field upgrades. Lattice MachXO non-volatile crossover programmable logic devices support applications traditionally addressed by high density CPLDs or low capacity FPGAs, but with a more comprehensive and cost-effective architecture and technology.
  
  
• Axon Pioneers Next Generation of Triple-Rate SDI Video Processing Systems With Stratix II GX FPGAs (Tuesday Sep. 04, 2007)
  Axon’s GQW200 module runs on the Linux operating environment. Its processing power comes primarily from a Stratix II GX FPGA, which supports automatic switching between SDI, HD-SDI and 3-Gbps SDI data speeds with up to 20 triple-rate SDI full-duplex transceiver channels operating across a range of 270 Mbps to 3 Gbps.
  
  
• China's First Digital TV Broadcast Standard Launched on Altera's Stratix II FPGA (Tuesday Sep. 04, 2007)
  The digital video modulation intellectual property (IP) in the standard will be used by all digital TV system suppliers providing video transport equipment to broadcasters in China .
  
  
• Altera Ships First Member of High-End Stratix III FPGA Family (Tuesday Aug. 28, 2007)
  Featuring 150K logic elements and delivering the lowest power consumption of any high-density, high-performance programmable logic device, the EP3SL150 is ideal for a broad range of applications such as high performance computing, next-generation basestations, network infrastructure, and advanced imaging equipment.