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• Achronix Semiconductor Announces 1.93 GHz 90nm ''ULTRA'' FPGA Prototype First Silicon Success (Monday Apr. 24, 2006)
  Achronix Semiconductor Corporation announced today that it has completed initial testing on the first silicon of its commercial 90nm FPGA prototype. The testing confirmed that the prototype is capable of running common FPGA performance benchmark designs a
  
  
• Altera Speeds Time-to-Market and Improves Performance for Video and Image Processing Applications (Monday Apr. 24, 2006)
  Comprised of intellectual property (IP) cores, development kits, FPGAs and reference designs, the new offering addresses the need for increased processing bandwidth in video and image processing applications as video standards continue to advance and tech
  
  
• Xilinx Programmable Solutions Enable New Multi-Function Digital Video Broadcast Mobile Product From Screen Service (Monday Apr. 24, 2006)
  Xilinx, Inc. (NASDAQ: XLNX) and Screen Service Broadcasting Technologies, SpA (Brescia, Italy) today announced that the Italian developer of advanced broadcasting equipment utilized the Xilinx ® Virtex ™ -4 and Spartan ™ -3 FPGA families in its new digita
  
  
• Actel Receives DSCC SMD; Achieves New Quality Milestone for RTAX-S FPGAs (Monday Apr. 24, 2006)
  Actel Corporation (Nasdaq: ACTL) today announced that Defense Supplier Center Columbus (DSCC) has released Standard Microcircuit Drawing (SMD) numbers for Actel's high-reliability, radiation-tolerant RTAX2000S, RTAX1000S and RTAX250S devices
  
  
• Actel ProASIC3 FPGAs Selected for Miniature USB-Based Test and Measurement Equipment (Monday Apr. 24, 2006)
  Actel Corporation (Nasdaq: ACTL) today announced that its single-chip, flash-based ProASIC3 field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) have been selected for use within the USBscope50, part of Elan Digital Systems' portfolio of miniature USB-based test and me
  
  
• New Lattice ispClock Family Provides a Standard Clock Distribution Solution Across Multiple Designs (Monday Apr. 24, 2006)
  Four Operating Configurations in the ispClock5300S Devices Support
  
  
• Xilinx Chooses SiliconSystems as Preferred Storage Supplier for System ACE Development Environment (Tuesday Apr. 18, 2006)
  SiliconSystems, Inc., the world leader in advanced storage technology, today announced it will supply Xilinx, Inc. (NASDAQ: XLNX) its SiliconDrive technology for the programmable logic device leader's System Advanced Configuration Environment (System ACE™
  
  
• NTT Electronics Adopts Altera's Go-to-Production Solutions for HD Video-Over-IP Set-Top Box (Monday Apr. 10, 2006)
  Altera Corporation (NASDAQ: ALTR) today announced NTT Electronics’ choice of Altera’s HardCopy® structured ASIC and Nios® embedded processor for off-loading CPU functions in its newest bi‑directional, high-definition (HD) video-over-Internet protoco
  
  
• Xilinx Simplifies and Lowers Cost for High-Speed Serial Design With New ChipScope Pro Serial IO Toolkit (Monday Apr. 10, 2006)
  Xilinx, Inc. today announced immediate availability of the ChipScope(TM) Pro Serial IO Toolkit to dramatically reduce the cost and complexity of debugging high-speed serial IO designs. The new toolkit simplifies the real-time debug of RocketIO(TM) multi-g
  
  
• Xilinx AccelDSP Synthesis 8.1 Tool Accelerates DSP System Design (Tuesday Apr. 04, 2006)
  Xilinx, Inc. (NASDAQ: XLNX) today announced the immediate availability of the new AccelDSP™ Synthesis 8.1 tool and AccelWare™ DSP libraries of algorithmic intellectual property (IP).
  
  
• Altera Announces New Tool for Easily Accelerating C Into Hardware for Nios II Processor-Based Systems (Monday Apr. 03, 2006)
  Altera® Corporation today announced the Nios®II C-to-Hardware Acceleration (C2H) Compiler, a new productivity tool for developers of Nios II-based systems that substantially increases the performance of their embedded software.
  
  
• Xilinx Introduces Industry's Most Scalable And Flexible Traffic Manager Solution For Triple Play Applications (Thursday Mar. 30, 2006)
  New solution enables QoS support and efficient bandwidth utilization in 10G metro,
  
  
• Lattice IPexpress User Configurable IP Cores Dramatically Reduce Evaluation Time, Accelerate Time to Market (Wednesday Mar. 29, 2006)
  Lattice Semiconductor Corporation today announced the immediate availability of several key ispLeverCORE™ Intellectual Property (IP) modules that are user configurable via its IPexpress™ design flow
  
  
• Altera Strengthens Support of High-Speed Application Development With Shipment of Stratix II GX FPGAs (Wednesday Mar. 29, 2006)
  Stratix II GX FPGAs and Stratix II GX Signal Integrity Development Kit Now Available for Ordering
  
  
• Altera Ships Stratix II GX FPGAs (Monday Mar. 27, 2006)
  Stratix II GX FPGAs and Stratix II GX Signal Integrity Development Kit Now Available for Ordering
  
  
• Xilinx Virtex-4 FPGAs Provide Critical DSP Functionality In General Dynamics JTRS Radios (Wednesday Mar. 22, 2006)
  Xilinx Inc. (NASDAQ: XLNX), a leading supplier of programmable logic solutions to the aerospace and defense market, today announced that General Dynamics C4 Systems has adopted the Virtex™-4 Platform FPGA for use in the development of handheld, manpack an
  
  
• Altera Delivers Military Temperature FPGAs (Tuesday Mar. 21, 2006)
  Altera today announced qualification of its high-performance Stratix® FPGA family for military temperature operation requirements, from -55°C to +125°C
  
  
• LatticeEC FPGAs Selected by Leading Wi-Fi Test Equipment Vendor (Wednesday Mar. 15, 2006)
  Azimuth Systems Lauds Device Speed and Software Design Tools
  
  
• Actel Simplifies Real-World Embedded Designs with ARM7-Enabled Fusion Programmable System Chips (Monday Mar. 06, 2006)
  New IP Core and Enhanced Design Infrastructure Enable Rapid and Easy Deployment of ARM7-Based, Mixed-Signal Systems
  
  
• Xilinx And CMC Increase IP Core Development In India To Help Customers Complete Programmable Designs Faster (Thursday Mar. 02, 2006)
  Xilinx, Inc. (NASDAQ: XLNX), the world’s leading supplier of programmable chips, today announced that the India development centre, operated by CMC Limited in Hyderabad, has delivered 24 Intellectual Property (IP) cores since it was established in Februar
  
  
• Xilinx Delivers High-Speed Interoperable Interfaces For Latest Texas Instruments DSPs (Wednesday Mar. 01, 2006)
  Serial RapidIO and VLYNQ Interfaces Pass Interoperability Testing for TI DSPs
  
  
• Xilinx First To 65nm With Next Generation Virtex FPGAs (Tuesday Feb. 28, 2006)
  New family poised to further propel FPGAs into $22B ASIC/ASSP market by delivering robust system-level solutions for high-performance DSP, embedded and serial connectivity application domains
  
  
• Actel Delivers Development Kit for ARM7-Enabled FPGAs (Tuesday Feb. 28, 2006)
  Complete Environment Enables Easy Evaluation and Development of ARM7-Based FPGA Designs
  
  
• Actel ProASIC3 Commercial Qualification Completed (Tuesday Feb. 21, 2006)
  Single-Chip, Low-Cost, Low-Power and Secure Flash-Based Devices Now Shipping into High-Volume Applications
  
  
• Actel Offers One Million Gates for Free (Tuesday Feb. 21, 2006)
  Small, Downloadable Service Pack Adds Support for Actel Fusion PSC, ProASIC3 and ARM7-Enabled Devices
  
  
• Altera and TES Offer Cost-Effective FPGA-Based Reconfigurable Graphics Controller (Thursday Feb. 16, 2006)
  Provides First Platform-Based High-Performance Graphics Accelerator for Automotive Infotainment Display Applications
  
  
• Altera's Cyclone II FPGA Family Now Available in Extended Temperature Range (Tuesday Feb. 14, 2006)
  The extended temperature range allows Cyclone II FPGAs to operate at a junction temperature of -40 degrees C to +125 degrees C to provide increased flexibility, time-to-market and low-cost advantages for designers of industrial, military and automotive el
  
  
• Xilinx Streamlines Embedded System Design With New Platform Studio Version 8.1i (Tuesday Feb. 14, 2006)
  Award-Winning Platform Studio Tool Suite Accelerates Embedded Development with Intuitive, Easy-to-Use Environment
  
  
• Xilinx & Sensory Networks Announce Industry's Most Scalable, FPGA-Enabled Network Security Acceleration Solution For Emerging UTM Security Appliances (Monday Feb. 13, 2006)
  Reprogrammable OEM solution delivers adaptable, multi-gigabit deep content inspection and provides milestone threat database support of up to 10 million signatures
  
  
• Ultra Electronics Chooses Altera's Stratix II Devices to Cut IP Security Costs and Seek New SDR Markets (Wednesday Feb. 08, 2006)
  Unique Intellectual Property Security Feature Safeguards Transfer of Tactical Radio Technology, Eliminating the Need for Costly Custom Chip Development