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• Altera and White Electronic Designs Partner on Specialized Mil/Aero FPGA Packaging (Monday Nov. 20, 2006)
  First With Secure, Small Form-Factor Options for Military Applications
  
  
• Echelon and Altera Partner to Bring Low Cost Power Line Networking to Home Appliances (Tuesday Nov. 14, 2006)
  The companies have collaborated to provide an off-the-shelf solution that combines Altera Corporation's 32 bit Nios II family of embedded processors for Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs) with a specially programmed Echelon power line smart transceiver.
  
  
• Xilinx Spartan-3E FPGAs Enable JVC's Latest Professional Broadcast HDV Camera-Recorder (Tuesday Nov. 14, 2006)
  
  
  
• Chipworks First Inside Xilinx Virtex-5 FPGA 65nm ''Twins'' (Wednesday Nov. 08, 2006)
  One twin was manufactured at Toshiba – an industry leader in 65nm technologies for digital consumer markets. The second was manufactured at UMC, another industry leader and Xilinx’s primary foundry partner for more than 10 years
  
  
• Altera Announces High-End Stratix III Family (Wednesday Nov. 08, 2006)
  Built on TSMC’s 65‑nm process, Stratix III FPGAs feature groundbreaking innovations including hardware architecture advancements and Quartus® II software enhancements.
  
  
• Actel and Aldec Partner to Offer High-Reliability Design Solutions for Aerospace and Avionics Markets (Monday Nov. 06, 2006)
  Companies Deliver Solutions for DO-254 Verification and Flash-Based RTAX-S Prototyping
  
  
• Xilinx Announces Availability of Complete Logic Design Solution for Newest Virtex-5 LXT Platform (Thursday Nov. 02, 2006)
  Latest 8.2i updates to ISE, PlanAhead and Chipscope Pro design software accelerate design closure and provides enhanced productivity for Virtex-5 LXT FPGAs
  
  
• Xilinx XtremeDSP Development Tools Reduce Power and Extend Performance for Virtex-5 DSP Applications (Monday Oct. 30, 2006)
  AccelDSP and System Generator for DSP 8.2 Tools support 65nm Virtex-5 LX and LXT FPGAs
  
  
• Lattice Expands ispClock5300S Family of Clock Distribution Devices (Monday Oct. 30, 2006)
  New Sixteen- and Twenty-Output Devices Feature Programmable Skew and Programmable Termination
  
  
• Altera's New $150 Cyclone II Starter Kit Enables Quick and Easy Low-Cost FPGA Design (Tuesday Oct. 24, 2006)
  Priced to attract a wide range of FPGA users, including designers with no previous FPGA experience, the new kit features the industry’s lowest cost FPGA device family, Cyclone II.
  
  
• RTOS Support Accelerates Embedded System Development on LatticeMICO32 Microprocessor (Monday Oct. 23, 2006)
  uC/OS-II Kernel Included With the LatticeMico32 Development Tools
  
  
• Bluewater Systems Selects Altera Cyclone FPGAs for Development of Customizable, ARM-Based Module (Monday Oct. 16, 2006)
  Altera today announced that Bluewater Systems is using the Cyclone(R) series of low-cost FPGAs in the design of their award-winning Snapper 255, an integrated single-board microcontroller module for embedded applications.
  
  
• Actel Rolls Out Industry's First FPGA-Based System Management for MicroTCA Market (Monday Oct. 16, 2006)
  Free, Tested Reference Designs Drive MicroTCA Adoption and Provide Templates for Customization
  
  
• Xilinx Delivers Virtex-5 LXT FPGAs With Industry's First Built-In PCI Express Block And Low-Power Serial I/O (Monday Oct. 16, 2006)
  World’s first 65-nm FPGAs with hardened protocol blocks and easy-to-use solutions
  
  
• Xilinx Delivers Virtex-5 LX ML501 Development Platform (Tuesday Oct. 10, 2006)
  Feature-rich platform provides faster time to development for 65nm Virtex-5 LX-based applications
  
  
• Xilinx Strengthens Automotive Offering With Industry's Only Complete Programmable MOST Solution (Monday Oct. 09, 2006)
  Highly integrated FPGA-based MOST Network Interface Controller solution enables flexible system partitioning for infotainment applications
  
  
• UMC Low-power Process Helps Actel Put Freeze on IGLOO Competition (Monday Oct. 09, 2006)
  New 5 uW FPGA Family Leverages UMC's Embedded Flash and Low-power Processes to Reduce Power Consumption
  
  
• Toshiba Chooses Altera's MAX II CPLDs for New V30T gigabeat Digital Audio Player (Monday Oct. 09, 2006)
  MAX II CPLDs Reduce Development Time and Lower Power Consumption
  
  
• Xilinx Extends ISE 8.2i To Include Support For World's Largest 65nm FPGA (Friday Sep. 29, 2006)
  Tools now provide support for 65nm Virtex-5 LX330 device enabling designs of 330,000 logic cells – 65% larger than previous generation FPGAs
  
  
• Free Reference Design Simplifies Integration of 7:1 LVDS Interfaces in Both the LatticeECP2 and New LatticeECP2M FPGAs (Wednesday Sep. 27, 2006)
  Pre-engineered I/O Components Simplify Implementation, Reduce Component Count and System Cost
  
  
• MathStar, Inc. Announces the Second Generation of its Field Programmable Object Array(TM) (Tuesday Sep. 26, 2006)
  Semiconductor company's Arrix(TM) Family of Products is up to four times faster than FPGAs
  
  
• Lattice Launches Ultra Low Cost Programmable Power Management Solution for High Volume Consumer Applications (Monday Sep. 25, 2006)
  Ideally Suited for Handheld Systems Requiring Very Low Standby Power
  
  
• Startup defines next-generation FPGA (Monday Sep. 18, 2006)
  Capitalizing on expiring FPGA patents and an accelerating shift of FPGAs into data-path processing, startup Velogix Inc. is developing a high-performance programmable-logic platform to run the billions of operations each second needed by applications like
  
  
• New 90nm LatticeECP2M FPGAs First to Offer Embedded SERDES for High Volume FPGA Family (Monday Sep. 18, 2006)
  Ground Breaking Family Establishes New Price/Performance Standard for Low Cost, High Volume FPGAs
  
  
• Lattice Will Showcase Embedded Design Solutions, Debut New 90nm FPGA and IP Core at the Embedded Systems Conference Boston (Monday Sep. 11, 2006)
  Low Cost PCI Express Solution will be Demonstrated
  
  
• Altera to Feature High-Performance Memory Interface and PCI Express Solutions at Denali MemCon 2006 (Monday Sep. 11, 2006)
  Altera Corporation (NASDAQ:ALTR) will showcase its high-performance solutions for memory interfaces and PCI Express applications at Denali MemCon San Jose 2006. These demonstrations will show how Altera’s complete FPGA solutions enable designers to overco
  
  
• Panasonic Chooses Xilinx Virtex-4 And Spartan-3 FPGAs For Professional Broadcast High Definition Camera-Recorder (Thursday Sep. 07, 2006)
  Panasonic relies on Xilinx FPGA technology for high performance digital signal processing (DSP) capabilities of newest camera-recorder
  
  
• Actel Brings Portable Market in From the Cold With Industry's Lowest Power FPGA Family (Monday Aug. 28, 2006)
  With 5microW Static Power, Actel IGLOO Family Represents True Alternative to ASICs and CPLDs
  
  
• Xilinx Announces PlanAhead 8.2 Design Suite - Extends Virtex-5 FPGA 65-nm Performance Advantage (Monday Aug. 28, 2006)
  New software release improves performance, accelerates design closure and offers better signal integrity analysis
  
  
• Lattice Will Showcase Embedded Design Solutions, Debut New 90nm FPGA and IP Core at the Embedded Systems Conference Boston (Monday Sep. 11, 2000)
  Low Cost PCI Express Solution will be Demonstrated