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• Xilinx Delivers Virtex-5 LX330T Device - World's Largest FPGA with Serial Transceivers (Wednesday Mar. 14, 2007)
  Delivery of 65nm LX330T enables high density system integration using built-in PCI Express endpoint and tri-mode Ethernet MAC blocks
  
  
• Xilinx Announces Virtex-5 System Monitor Capability - Industry's First FPGA Analog Debug and System Management Solution (Tuesday Mar. 13, 2007)
  Already on-board all Xilinx Virtex-5 devices, the solution provides customers with the industry’s first analog debug and system management tool for thermal management and measurement of on-chip power supply voltages.
  
  
• Stratix II GX FPGAs Meet Rigorous CEI-6G-LR/SR Specifications (Tuesday Mar. 13, 2007)
  The CEI-6G specification provides a framework of electrical standards allowing for interoperability of devices and systems. Stratix II GX FPGAs are the industry’s first family to support the rigorous standard in the full CEI specification range of 4.9 Gbps to 6.0 Gbps and provide design margin to stringent jitter specifications, even when multiple lanes are active
  
  
• Lattice Announces Production Release of 90nm LatticeECP2 Family (Monday Mar. 12, 2007)
  Lattice Semiconductor today announced that its LatticeECP2-50 and Lattice ECP2-12 FPGA devices have been fully qualified and released to volume production. The second-generation LatticeECP2 ''EConomy Plus'' Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) families have been produced on 90nm Fujitsu CMOS technology utilizing 300mm wafers.
  
  
• Toshiba Selects Xilinx Spartan-3 Generation FPGAs for Latest LCD TVs (Tuesday Mar. 06, 2007)
  Xilinx today announced that Toshiba Corporation has selected Xilinx low-cost, high-volume Spartan™-3E field programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) for its LCD television models WLT68 and WL68 in the REGZA™ series.
  
  
• Ittiam Systems Selects Altera's Stratix II FPGAs for Multi-Format High-Definition Video Decoder Engine (Monday Mar. 05, 2007)
  Altera today announced that Ittiam Systems has selected the industry-leading Stratix® II FPGA family to develop and deliver the Trinity multi-format high-definition video decoder (MFVDEC) soft intellectual property (IP) core. This IP core is designed for digital TV, high-definition (HD) DVD, HD IPTV and HD set-top-box solutions. Ittiam selected Altera's Stratix II FPGA family for its high density, high performance and superior signal integrity
  
  
• Xilinx Delivers Industry's First 90nm Non-Volatile FPGA Solution with New Spartan-3AN Platform (Tuesday Feb. 27, 2007)
  New domain-optimized FPGA brings performance and functionality of SRAM-based devices into non-volatile FPGA market space with higher system integration, lower system cost and higher security
  
  
• Xilinx and NSA Deliver New Design Flow and Verfication Process for High Assurance Industry (Wednesday Feb. 21, 2007)
  The jointly developed solution is based on NSA requirements for high-grade cryptographic processing and required an exhaustive analysis to evaluate the security of the Virtex-4 family of FPGAs, and their ability to allow independent functions on a single chip.
  
  
• Xilinx Simplifies Design of PCI Express, Gigabit Ethernet and Xaui with New Virtex-5 Protocol Packs (Tuesday Feb. 20, 2007)
  Xilinx today announced the availability of protocol packs for PCI Express®, Gigabit Ethernet, and XAUI for its 65-nm Virtex-5 family of FPGAs. The company also released protocol-specific characterization reports for SONET OC-48/SDH STM-16 and CPRI (Common Public Radio Interface)
  
  
• Altera Automotive Graphics Platform Enables ''Design Once, Make Many'' Applications (Thursday Feb. 15, 2007)
  Altera Corporation today introduced the Altera® Automotive Graphics System (AAGS), a scalable solution that enables design engineers to quickly and efficiently design multiple automotive infotainment products based on a single electronic design. Implemented in Altera’s low-cost Cyclone® series or high-performance Stratix® series FPGAs, the AAGS enables designers to overcome the lengthy and costly design cycles of fixed-function graphic controllers.
  
  
• Xilinx Expands Reach in Aerospace and Defense Market with Virtex-4 QPro Product Family (Tuesday Feb. 13, 2007)
  Xilinx Virtex-4 QPRO FPGAs are an enhanced subset of Xilinx FPGAs targeted specifically at the stringent requirements of aerospace and defense applications. Devices include the Virtex-4 XQ4VLX25 (24,192 logic cells), Virtex-4 XQ4VLX60 (59,904 logic cells) for logic-intensive designs, and the Virtex-4 XQ4VSX55 (55,296 logic cells) for high-performance digital signal processing (DSP).
  
  
• Unique Key and Serial Number ID for Programmable Logic Solutions Opens Up Flexible Security Options for Embedded System Developers (Monday Feb. 12, 2007)
  QuickLogic Europe announces the capability of programming unique keys and serial identification numbers into its low-power programmable logic devices. These user-customisable keys and numbers conform to a customer-supplied list, and can serve as the basis for implementing a variety of content protection standards and algorithms.
  
  
• Xilinx Ships World's Highest Performance DSP Platform with New Virtex-5 SXT FPGAs (Monday Feb. 05, 2007)
  Integrated platform combines enhanced DSP blocks for parallel processing, highest memory-to-logic ratio, and low-power serial transceivers for highest I/O bandwidth
  
  
• Xilinx Virtex Series FPGAs Surpass $5B in Revenue (Monday Feb. 05, 2007)
  Industry's best selling FPGA series continues to deliver with three 65nm platforms shipping today
  
  
• Altera's FPGAs Are First to Demonstrate Support for PCI Express 2.0 (Tuesday Jan. 30, 2007)
  The PLDA XpressGXII prototyping board includes PLDA’s PCI Express intellectual property (IP) core, IP configuration software, and the corresponding test-bench and reference designs for x1, x2, x4 and x8 endpoint applications. PLDA XpressGXII includes everything needed to jumpstart and validate any PCIe application, and is ready for PCIe 2.0.
  
  
• Xilinx Announces ChipScope Pro 9.1i Software - Extending Serial I/O Debug Capabilities to Support 65nm Virtex-5 LXT FPGAs (Monday Jan. 29, 2007)
  New release delivers 60% faster clock speeds and comprehensive low-cost BERT capabilities for RocketIO multi-gigabit transceivers
  
  
• Cortina and Xilinx Connect at 40Gbps Using Interlaken (Wednesday Jan. 24, 2007)
  Interlaken Connection Delivers 40Gbps Effective Bandwidth Between Xilinx Virtex-5 FPGAs and Cortina CS3477 Ethernet Aggregator
  
  
• Lattice Announces New FreedomChip Seamless Cost Reduction Path for LatticeSC/M FPGAs (Monday Jan. 22, 2007)
  >99% Fault Coverage for Customer Specific Designs with 100% Timing Compatibility
  
  
• Xilinx Announces ISE WebPACK 9.1i Release - Delivering Highest System Performance and Fastest Compile Time (Monday Jan. 22, 2007)
  Free downloadable design suite for both Windows and Linux delivers on average 10% lower dynamic power, and expanded FPGA device support
  
  
• HP Presents Alternate Strategy for Chip Improvement (Tuesday Jan. 16, 2007)
  HP today announced research that could lead to the creation of field programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) up to eight times denser – while using less energy for a given computation – than those currently being produced.
  
  
• Actel Refines Libero IDE to Improve Design Flow for Low-Power IGLOO FPGAs and Mixed-Signal Fusion PSCs (Monday Jan. 15, 2007)
  Company Leverages Advanced Software From Mentor Graphics, Synplicity and SynaptiCAD to Ease the Design Experience
  
  
• Major Release of Xilinx ISE Software Slashes FPGA Design Cycles (Monday Jan. 15, 2007)
  ISE 9.1i powered by new SmartCompile technology cuts implementation runtimes by up to 6X and delivers 30% faster performance
  
  
• Xilinx Showcases Handset Demonstration Platform With TI OMAP Processor Compatibility (Monday Jan. 08, 2007)
  Leading Converged, High-end Handset Processor Now Supported on Industry's First Programmable Handset Demonstration Platform
  
  
• Xilinx Virtex-5 FPGAs Achieve PCI Express Compliance - World's First FPGAs to Pass All v1.1 Specification Tests (Wednesday Jan. 03, 2007)
  Proven Solution Enables Users to Rapidly Adopt Industry's Fastest 65nm FPGAs With Built-in Low Power PCI Express Endpoint Blocks and Serial Transceivers
  
  
• Xilinx Delivers 65nm Virtex-5 LX330 - Industry's Largest FPGA (Tuesday Jan. 02, 2007)
  Xilinx fab partners UMC and Toshiba have ramped production on their 65nm processes quickly and with excellent yields, allowing Xilinx to deliver the complete 65nm Virtex-5 LX platform on time and over one year ahead of its competition
  
  
• Chipworks 65-nm Virtex-5 Study Validates Customer Benefits of Xilinx Dual-Foundry Strategy (Thursday Dec. 21, 2006)
  In-depth structural analysis and DC transistor characterization proves that devices manufactured by Toshiba and UMC equally meet high-performance specifications
  
  
• Lattice and ANAGRAM Will Provide Crystal Clear Audio Solutions to the Consumer Market (Tuesday Dec. 19, 2006)
  ANAGRAM Technologies Optimizes its Audio DAC and Digital Audio Amplifier IP Cores for the LatticeECP, LatticeECP2 and LatticeECP2M FPGA Devices
  
  
• Altera Ships Production-Qualified Stratix II GX FPGAs (Wednesday Dec. 13, 2006)
  The high-density Stratix II GX family provides up to 20 low-power transceivers operating between 600 Mbps and 6.375 Gbps with an unprecedented 127 Gbps of aggregate serial link connectivity.
  
  
• Xilinx Delivers Spartan-3A Platform - World's Lowest Cost I/O-Optimized FPGAs (Wednesday Dec. 06, 2006)
  Expands penetration in high-volume applications with selection of cost-reduced FPGAs for applications requiring high I/O gate ratio, low-power and anti-cloning security capabilities
  
  
• Actel's RTAX-S Device Family Hits Major Reliability Milestone (Tuesday Nov. 21, 2006)
  Products Achieve 1.4M Device-Hours of Life Testing Data