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• Actel Drives FPGAs "Under the Hood" Into Critical Automotive Powertrain and Safety Systems (Monday Aug. 27, 2007)
  AEC-Q100, Grade 1 qualification now enables FPGA technology to move beyond in-cabin telematics and infotainment applications into system-critical applications such as powertrain, engine control modules and safety systems.
  
  
• Magna Electronics Chooses Actel's ProASIC3 FPGAs to Enable Automotive Vision Systems (Monday Aug. 27, 2007)
  Delivering the low power, small footprint and reliability required in space-constrained automotive applications, Actel Corporation today announced that Magna Electronics is designing automotive vision systems using Actel's ProASIC3 field-programmable gate array (FPGA).
  
  
• Edgeware Video-on-Demand Server Achieves Breakthrough Performance With Altera FPGAs (Monday Aug. 27, 2007)
  Edgeware AB is tapping into the performance and robust memory capabilities of Stratix® II and Cyclone® III FPGAs from Altera Corporation to achieve previously unattainable performance and scalability with its groundbreaking video-on-demand server Orbit 2x, the companies announced today
  
  
• Xilinx DSP Development Tools Deliver Up to 38 Percent Higher DSP Performance (Tuesday Aug. 21, 2007)
  With the release of version 9.2 of the AccelDSP(TM) synthesis tool and System Generator for DSP, the development tool component of the Xilinx(R) XtremeDSP(TM) solution, provides higher-levels of performance as well as a tighter integration between the two tools to simplify the FPGA design flow for developers who use both the MATLAB(R) and Simulink(R) modeling environments concurrently.
  
  
• Actel FPGAs Bring Clarity to Visibility Enhancement Technology Platform from LYYN AB (Monday Aug. 20, 2007)
  Demonstrating the advanced innovation enabled by low-power, single-chip FPGA technology, Actel Corporation today announced that LYYN AB, a Swedish company specializing in video enhancement, has developed a hardware and software video processing platform enabled by the Actel ProASIC3 family of field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs). The solution "cleans" video footage to provide better visibility in the presence of such things as snow, fog, underwater silt and darkness. LYYN's products are targeted for use in remotely operated vehicles (ROVs) and aircrafts (UAVs) as well as portable devices, such as underwater cameras and advanced surveillance systems.
  
  
• Xilinx Leads Teams with EDA Leaders to Tackle Ultra High-Capacity FPGA Design Verification (Tuesday Aug. 14, 2007)
  Xilinx engineers will be joined by Cadence Design Systems, Inc., Mentor Graphics Corporation, and Synopsys, Inc. to define and implement new verification flows to maximize productivity and quality of results for ultra high-density designs targeting today's 65nm FPGAs as well as new and emerging FPGA architectures.
  
  
• Altera Cyclone III FPGAs Land Leading Role in New SVS Multiviewer Products (Wednesday Aug. 08, 2007)
  Altera Corporation (NASDAQ: ALTR) today announced that its low-cost, low-power Cyclone®III FPGAs were chosen by Silicon Video Systems (SVS) to build the most compact and cost-effective multiviewer product on the market. Multiviewers are used in professional audio/video production, security surveillance and broadcast monitoring applications where multi-image display processing is required.
  
  
• Xilinx Delivers DDR2-400 Support for Spartan-3 Generation FPGAs with Hardware-Verified Reference Design (Tuesday Aug. 07, 2007)
  Free reference design enables designers of HDTV and other high-performance, high-volume applications to quickly implement 400 Mbps DDR2 SDRAM interfaces with FPGAs
  
  
• Xilinx PlanAhead 9.2 Software Streamlines FPGA to PCB Integration (Tuesday Aug. 07, 2007)
  Xilinx, Inc. today announced immediate availability of its 9.2 version of PlanAhead™ hierarchical design and analysis design tool. Offering a full speed grade advantage, this latest release of the company’s award winning product features expanded functionality of Xilinx® PinAhead technology
  
  
• Actel Delivers Power-Efficient System Management Solution Starting at $1.20 for Embedded Applications (Monday Aug. 06, 2007)
  The design combines the award-winning, mixed-signal Fusion Programmable System Chip (PSC) with the optimized, configurable CoreABC microcontroller to provide a complete system management solution using a fraction of the Fusion part's logic tiles. As a result, the small and flexible, yet sophisticated, design eliminates the need for a variety of discrete components typically used in system management applications, while also offering additional chip real estate that can be custom-configured for the end application.
  
  
• Xilinx Virtex-5 Devices First FPGAs in Production to Demonstrate Interoperability with DDR3 SDRAM Technology (Tuesday Jul. 31, 2007)
  Xilinx today announced that its Virtex™-5 FPGA devices are interoperable with 800 Mbps DDR3 SDRAM devices from leading memory suppliers. Hardware-proven interoperability with Virtex-5 devices provides customers with an early path to adopt DDR3 SDRAM technology with the industry’s only high-performance 65-nm FPGA family shipping in production.
  
  
• Actel Drives Low-Power Programmable Solutions into Asia Pacific with Extended Sales Network (Monday Jul. 30, 2007)
  In an aggressive move to extend the reach of its low-power, flash-based programmable technologies and expand the company's geographic footprint, Actel Corporation today announced the expansion of its Asia Pacific sales network with the addition of Advinno Technologies Pte and Mouser Electronics Pte as new distributors and value-added resellers (VARs)
  
  
• Crossbeam Uses Altera FPGAs for Powerful New Security Services Switches (Monday Jul. 30, 2007)
  Altera today announced that Crossbeam Systems is incorporating Altera® devices in its next-generation line of X-Series security services switches to achieve a level of performance and functionality not possible with alternative solutions.
  
  
• Lattice Semiconductor Expands Support For Its Open Source (Tuesday Jul. 24, 2007)
  Lattice today announced expanded support for its LatticeMico32™ 32-bit embedded RISC microprocessor. Availability of this enhanced solution, including new development tool and peripheral IP support, coincides with the release of Lattice’s ispLEVER® version 7.0 design tool suite.
  
  
• Xilinx Adds Greater Power Efficiency to High Performance Spartan-3A DSP Platform FPGAs (Monday Jul. 23, 2007)
  Xilinx, Inc. today announced the addition of power efficient Spartan™-3A DSP devices to its XtremeDSP™ portfolio of solutions for signal processing applications. The new devices, which are in production today, deliver high-performance DSP capabilities in a low-power FPGA for applications such as tactical radios for military communications, wireless access points and portable medical equipment.
  
  
• Samsung Selects Xilinx Low-Cost Solutions for Latest Digital Video Surveillance System (Tuesday Jul. 17, 2007)
  Xilinx today announced that the Xilinx® Spartan™-3E FPGA and MicroBlaze™ soft processor has been selected for Samsung Electronics’ latest digital video surveillance system. Xilinx low-cost Spartan-3E FPGA and MicroBlaze soft processor play an integral role in both the digital video recorder (DVR) and dome camera, providing Samsung with the competitive edge by increasing functionality, reducing development costs and improving time-to-market.
  
  
• Altera Announces Industry's First Full-Compliance With New JEDEC DDR3 SDRAM Standard (Monday Jul. 16, 2007)
  Under the newly ratified JESD79-3 JEDEC DDR3 SDRAM Standard, Altera’s Stratix® III family of FPGAs provides designers with the high-performance and low-power benefits of DDR3 memory that are becoming increasingly critical for a wide range of communications, computing and video processing applications.
  
  
• Xilinx Delivers ISE WebPACK 9.2i - Offering Expanded Support for Latest 65nm Virtex-5 FPGAs (Tuesday Jul. 10, 2007)
  The 9.2i version includes all the features and enhancements of Xilinx ISE Foundation™ 9.2i software with full support for optional embedded, digital signal processing (DSP) and real-time debug design flows. ISE WebPACK 9.2i software expands development options for FPGA designers with support for Microsoft Windows Vista.
  
  
• Xilinx Accelerates Serial Adoption with New Gigabit Ethernet Development Kit for Virtex-5 FPGAs (Monday Jul. 09, 2007)
  Xilinx today announced availability of the Virtex™-5 FPGA Gigabit Ethernet (GbE) Development Kit based on the company’s latest 65nmVirtex-5 FPGAs. Ideal for improving time-to-market of applications with Ethernet in communications, networking, industrial, scientific, medical, storage, computing, and aerospace and defense markets, the kit provides designers with a complete solution including a development board and protocol packs
  
  
• Lattice Announces Extensive IP Portfolio For New 90Nm Flash LatticeXP2 FPGA Family (Wednesday Jun. 27, 2007)
  Lattice and its ispLeverCORE Connection partners – CAST, ANAGRAM Technologies, DCD, Eureka Technology and WDC -- have already ported a wide range of cores addressing automotive, communications, consumer, embedded, instrumentation, video and wireless applications to the LatticeXP2 architecture.
  
  
• Altera Ships Production-Qualified Arria GX FPGAs (Wednesday Jun. 27, 2007)
  The Arria GX family of low-cost, transceiver-based FPGAs is optimized to support PCI Express (x1 and x4), Gigabit Ethernet and Serial RapidIO standards at speeds up to 2.5 Gbps.
  
  
• National Taiwan University and Altera Corporation Establish EDA/SOPC Joint Laboratory (Tuesday Jun. 26, 2007)
  The laboratory provides the best hands-on educational experience for professors, instructors, and students, enabling engineering students to build their expertise in FPGA design methodology and enhance their opportunity for success in the increasingly competitive global electronics marketplace.
  
  
• Xilinx Delivers Spartan-3AN Starter Kit for Rapid Evaluation of Consumer, Communication Infrastructure and Industrial Applications (Tuesday Jun. 26, 2007)
  The kit provides out-of-the-box functionality with the necessary hardware, software tools, evaluation board, power supply, reference designs and accessories to get users up and running in minutes. Designers can take advantage of the robust IP security schemes of Spartan-3AN devices which include on-chip DeviceDNA, a production-stamped, unique identifier for anti-cloning; largest on-chip user flash with up to 11Mb for safekeeping critical code and JTAG lockdown to prevent backdoor access to the FPGA.
  
  
• Xilinx Now Shipping Spartan-3A DSP Devices in Production (Tuesday Jun. 26, 2007)
  Shipping in production a month ahead of schedule, the Spartan-3A DSP platform offers 20 GMACs for under $30 for a wide range of low cost, data intensive applications including wireless, video surveillance, personal medical and consumer applications.
  
  
• Xilinx Delivers ISE 9.2i With Lower Memory Requirements and New Operating System Support (Monday Jun. 25, 2007)
  Improvements in the ISE 9.2i release reduce memory requirements by an average of 27 percent while providing expanded support for Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Windows XP x64, and Red Hat Enterprise WS 5.0 32-bit and 64-bit operating systems.
  
  
• Altera Ships Highest-Density Member of the Cyclone III Family (Monday Jun. 25, 2007)
  Consuming only a fraction of the power needed by other FPGAs of comparable capacity, the EP3C120 is ideal for a broad range of applications requiring both high integration and low power, such as wireless communications infrastructure, software defined radio, and video processing and imaging.
  
  
• Actel Launches Low-Power RTAX-SL FPGAs for Space Applications (Monday Jun. 25, 2007)
  The industry's lowest power programmable logic solution for space applications, the new RTAX-SL family offers approximately 50 percent lower standby current than the leading space FPGA offering at 125 degrees C.
  
  
• Lattice Introduces Industry's First SERDES FPGA Priced Below $10 (Monday Jun. 25, 2007)
  Production volume prices have been reduced to as low as $9.95 for the 20K Look-Up-Table (LUT) LatticeECP2M-20, substantially below those of competitive SERDES-capable FPGAs and cracking the $10.00 price barrier for the first time. When compared to Lattice's previously announced pricing, these prices represent a price reduction of >20% in less than one year.
  
  
• Xilinx Announces Immediate Availability of TD-SCDMA Digital Front-End Reference Design (Wednesday Jun. 20, 2007)
  Consisting of example reference designs, full-speed working demo and complete IP library that include optimised System Generator IP Blocks for digital up conversion (DUC) and digital down conversion (DDC) functions, the TD-SCDMA DFE reference design solution enables users to construct 3GPP-compliant DFE designs for a wide variety of base station configurations
  
  
• NEC Chooses Altera Stratix II GX FPGAs for New ExpEther Interface Technology (Monday Jun. 18, 2007)
  Altera announced today that Tokyo-based NEC System Platforms Research Laboratories has selected Altera's transceiver-based Stratix(R) II GX FPGAs and Nios(R) II embedded processor for implementing its new high-speed ExpEther interface. ExpEther is a PCI Express (PCIe)-to-Gigabit Ethernet (GbE) interface that makes data transfer on PCIe available via the GbE networking protocol.