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• Lattice Semiconductor Announces uLTRON RTOS Support for LatticeMico32 Microprocessor (Monday Jun. 18, 2007)
  Lattice Semiconductor Corporation (NASDAQ: LSCC) today announced that it has validated the operation of the TOPPERS open source implementation of the ìITRON 4.0 Real Time Operating System (RTOS) with its LatticeMico32 32-Bit soft microprocessor.
  
  
• Actel's Innovative SmartDesign Functionality Eases System-Level Design (Monday Jun. 18, 2007)
  A key functionality within Libero IDE v8.0, SmartDesign lets users visually create and then automatically abstract block-based system designs into synthesis-ready VHDL or Verilog components. The graphical block-based design entry supports prefabricated blocks from Actel's extensive DirectCore and SmartGen IP libraries. It also supports custom blocks created in HDL or Synplify(R) DSP and processor subsystems created with Actel's CoreConsole tool.
  
  
• Xilinx Cuts Development Time for Hand-Held Devices with New Low-Cost CoolRunner-II Starter Kit (Thursday Jun. 07, 2007)
  The kit includes an evaluation board with eight expansion connectors; three modules including PS2, seven-segment display, and slide switch; ISE™ WebPack™ design software, and a vast array of reference designs to shrink development time.
  
  
• Lattice Delivers Industry's Fastest Memory and HyperTransport Technology I/O (Monday Jun. 04, 2007)
  1.6 Gbps HyperTransport, 750Mbps QDRII+, 800Mbps RLDRAM II and 667Mbps DDR2 Establish New Industry Benchmarks
  
  
• Xilinx Announces Virtex-5 System Monitor System Management Solutions (Wednesday May. 30, 2007)
  Built-in features, easy-to-use software, free reference designs and development kits enable users to quickly implement FPGA-based memory interfaces with good design margin
  
  
• Lattice Semiconductor Announces Industry's First True 90nm Non-volatile FPGA Family (Tuesday May. 29, 2007)
  With enhanced capabilities, the LatticeXP2 family doubles maximum logic capacity to 40K Look-Up Tables (LUTs), improves performance 25% and adds dedicated DSP blocks, all while reducing the price per function by up to 50%.
  
  
• Xilinx Virtex-5 SXT FPGAs Achieve PCI Express v1.1 Compliance (Thursday May. 24, 2007)
  Proven solution enables users to rapidly adopt industry's fastest 65nm FPGAs with integrated low power endpoint blocks for PCI Express and serial transceivers
  
  
• Jasper Electronics Leverages Actel Fusion Reference Platform to Rapidly Deploy MicroTCA Power Module (Monday May. 21, 2007)
  Based on the Actel Fusion Programmable System Chip (PSC), the platform enables the rapid deployment of systems based on the MicroTCA specification, an emerging global standard that defines a new low-cost, small form factor chassis and backplane architecture for high-performance, high-availability systems.
  
  
• Xilinx 65nm Virtex-5 LX Selected for Hitachi Kokusai Electric Industrial Cameras (Tuesday May. 15, 2007)
  Combining MicroBlaze soft processor with high-performance FPGA results in compact, high-resolution camera with reduced power consumption and lower price
  
  
• Xilinx Announces Production Qualification of Entire Line of Spartan-3A I/O Optimized FPGAs (Tuesday May. 08, 2007)
  Xilinx today announced production qualification of its entire line of 90nm I/O optimized Spartan-3A platform. This includes all five devices of the Spartan-3A platform including the XC3S50A, XC3S200A, XC3S400A, XC3S700A, and XC3S1400A devices.
  
  
• Xilinx QPro Radiation-Tolerant FPGAs Enable ITT Cross-Track Infrared Sounder Program (Wednesday May. 02, 2007)
  FPGA provider to Aerospace & Defense industry provides design flexibility and critical design services for U.S. government national oceanic & atmospheric project
  
  
• IRCONA Joins the Lattice Leader Design Services Program (Monday Apr. 30, 2007)
  IRCONA will apply its expertise in very high-speed digital and embedded software design to expand the range of products in which Lattice devices are integrated. IRCONA has a long history of developing products based upon Lattice’s latest devices, and expects this relationship to expand with its membership in the LEADER program
  
  
• Aloka Selects Xilinx EasyPath FPGAs for Diagnostic Ultrasound System (Thursday Apr. 26, 2007)
  Xilinx announced today that Aloka has selected Virtex(TM)-4 SX EasyPath FPGAs for its ProSound alpha 10 high-end ultrasound diagnostic system.
  
  
• Xilinx and port GMBH Demonstrate Industry's First Complete Solution for Ethernet Powerlink (Friday Apr. 20, 2007)
  Designed specifically for use in industrial communication applications, the Xilinx Spartan™-3 FPGA enabled solution consists of a protocol stack, MAC controller and frame filter, allowing fast and efficient data transfer while leaving the software and CPU available for other system functions.
  
  
• Altera Announces FPGA-Based Accelerator Support for Intel Front Side Bus (Wednesday Apr. 18, 2007)
  XtremeData FPGA-based module to offer computing acceleration and significantly lower power consumption for Intel Xeon-based servers
  
  
• Lattice Releases Reference Design For GPON Burst Mode Receiver (Monday Apr. 16, 2007)
  Reference Design Highlights Ability of LatticeSC/M FPGAs' PURESPEED I/O to Support 1.25 Gbps GPON Data Rates
  
  
• Xilinx and Image Processing Techniques Announce New Advanced Video Development Platform (Monday Apr. 16, 2007)
  Xilinx and Image Processing Techniques launched a new Advanced Video Development Platform (AVDP) based on the PCI Express compliant endpoint block embedded in Xilinx Virtex-5 LXT and SXT FPGAs.
  
  
• Xilinx Introduces Dual Link HD-SDI and 3G-SDI Reference Designs on Industry's First Interoperability Platform (Monday Apr. 16, 2007)
  The new reference designs will showcase conversion from Dual Link HD-SDI to 3G-SDI, a 3G-SDI pass through demonstration with frame synchronisation for improved jitter performance, and conversion from 3G-SDI back to Dual Link
  
  
• Harris Chooses Altera Stratix II GX FPGAs for New Multi-Format Broadcast Router Line (Monday Apr. 16, 2007)
  Altera announced today that Harris has selected the Stratix II GX-based development kit and 3-Gbps serial digital interface (SDI) intellectual property (IP) MegaCore function to reduce development time by several months for their recently introduced line of Platinum video broadcast routers.
  
  
• Xilinx Announces FPGA-Based Deserializer Solution for TI's ADS60000 ADC Family (Monday Apr. 16, 2007)
  Jointly developed Virtex-4 based solution substantially reduces cost and development time
  
  
• Xilinx Announces New MultiChannel Video-Over-IP Solution (Monday Apr. 16, 2007)
  This new Xilinx reference design enables very high IP bandwidth support and greater flexibility in the overall system. A key differentiator of the Xilinx video-over-IP solution is that it does not rely on a processor for implementation. Register level command and control can be accomplished through an RS232 interface.
  
  
• Altera FPGA Replaces 64 DSP Devices in Fairlight's New Media Processing Engine (Monday Apr. 09, 2007)
  A/V Production Engine Demonstrates FPGA's Flexibility and Digital Signal Processing Capabilities, Creating a Market-Leading Product
  
  
• AnaFocus Chooses Altera's Embedded Solutions for Single-Chip Vision System (Tuesday Apr. 03, 2007)
  AnaFocus has chosen Altera Corporation’s embedded solutions to develop Eye-RIS, a single-chip camera and image processor, the companies announced today. The 0.18-µm device meets the high-performance control and post-screening video requirements of Eye-RIS’s target applications by using Altera’s Nios® II embedded processor integrated with AnaFocus’s smart image sensor (SIS) technology.
  
  
• Xilinx Launches New Low-Cost Spartan-DSP Series (Monday Apr. 02, 2007)
  XtremeDSP solutions unleash breakthrough price-performance-power advantages for wireless and video applications
  
  
• Altera's Stratix II FPGAs Now Qualified for Military Temperature Grade (Tuesday Mar. 27, 2007)
  The company provides military temperature range operation by extending the industrial-grade Stratix II devices to an operating range of -55°C to +125°C. Using standard industrial devices for military operation enables major price and lifecycle advantages compared to dedicated military devices.
  
  
• Xilinx Simplifies Embedded Development with New EDK 9.1i Suite (Monday Mar. 26, 2007)
  Updated tool suite supports latest Virtex-5 and Spartan-3A devices and streamlines processing design across all FPGA platforms
  
  
• Xilinx Delivers PlanAhead 9.1 Design Suite - Extends Performance Advantage of 65nm Virtex-5 FPGAs (Thursday Mar. 22, 2007)
  Used in conjunction with the Xilinx Integrated Software Environment (ISE™) design tools, the PlanAhead 9.1 design suite delivers an additional option for designers to optimize the maximum performance of the company’s latest 65nm Virtex-5 FPGAs.
  
  
• Xilinx Delivers Complete Development Kit for PCI Express (Monday Mar. 19, 2007)
  Development kit and protocol pack for PCI Express enable users to design with confidence across a broad range of markets in communications, networking, video broadcast, storage and computing
  
  
• Altera Ships Industry's First 65-nm Low-Cost FPGA (Monday Mar. 19, 2007)
  Cyclone III FPGAs consume 75 percent less power than competing FPGAs and deliver 5K to 120K logic elements (LEs), up to 4 Mbits of memory and up to 288 digital signal processing (DSP) multipliers. At 20 percent lower cost per LE than the previous generation, the Cyclone III family enables designers to use FPGAs in more cost-sensitive applications than previously possible
  
  
• Actel and ARM Develop High-Performance 32-bit Processor Optimized for FPGAs (Monday Mar. 19, 2007)
  Removing the license and royalty fees typically associated with licensing models for industry-leading processor cores, Actel offers free access to advanced ARM processor technology to the broad marketplace. The free delivery of the Cortex-M1 processor for use in Actel's flash-based, M1-enabled Actel Fusion and ProASIC3 FPGAs provides system designers programmable flexibility and system-level integration, enabling the development of low-cost, high-performance systems.