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• Poseidon automates the generation of hardware accelerator modules for Xilinx Virtex-4 FPGAs (Monday Jun. 13, 2005)
  Triton Tool suite creates APU-compatible Fabric Co-processor Modules, interfaces and the attending software drivers – automatically!
  
  
• Altera and Mango DSP Announce Bluejay Video Processing Board Featuring Stratix II FPGAs (Monday Jun. 13, 2005)
  Featuring four Altera® Stratix® II EP2S130 devices, 4 Gigabytes of SDRAM, and up to 16 Texas Instrument’s TMS320C6415 DSP processors each running at 1 GHz, the CPCI card can handle DSP intensive algorithms that require true multi-processing.
  
  
• FPGA users taxed but satisfied (Monday Jun. 13, 2005)
  FPGA design is getting more complex and is demanding sophisticated EDA tools, according to the EE Times/Deutsche Bank 2005 EDA survey.
  
  
• Xilinx Embedded PowerPC Solution Gains Significant Industry Adoption (Wednesday Jun. 08, 2005)
  Company Reports Record-Setting Shipments and Rapid Adoption of Embedded PowerPC Cores With Virtex-II Pro and Virtex-4 FX Platform FPGAs
  
  
• Altera Announces DSP Development Kit With Industry's Highest-Density FPGA (Tuesday Jun. 07, 2005)
  Stratix II FPGA-Based Kit on Display at Code:DSP Seminar in June
  
  
• Xilinx Announces Customer Shipments Of Virtex-4 FX60 FPGAs With Industry's First 622Mbps - 10.3125Gbps Serial Transceivers (Monday Jun. 06, 2005)
  Company Demonstrates Virtex-4 FX60 High Speed Serial Capabilities This Week at SUPERCOMM
  
  
• Xilinx Widens Process Technology Leadership - Ships More Than 3.5 Million 90nm FPGAs (Friday Jun. 03, 2005)
  Company's 90nm Virtex-4 and Spartan-3 FPGAs are the lowest power dissipation and lowest cost in the industry
  
  
• Xilinx Virtex-II Pro World's Most Popular 130nm FPGA (Friday Jun. 03, 2005)
  Company reports record >40% growth in most recent quarter
  
  
• Lattice Launches LEADER Design Services Program (Wednesday Jun. 01, 2005)
  Partnerships with Leading Design Services Companies will Expand Access to Lattice Products, Shorten Customers' Time to Market
  
  
• Altera's Stratix FPGAs Boost Performance and Drastically Reduce Cost for Cape Range Wireless (Wednesday Jun. 01, 2005)
  By using Stratix FPGAs, Cape Range Wireless was able to cut their component costs by 40 percent and reduce their board size by 25 percent compared to their previous solution.
  
  
• Altera and PMC-Sierra Introduce Multi-Serial Protocol Development System (Tuesday May. 31, 2005)
  System Supports Emerging Wired and Wireless Industry Specifications Including PCI Express, OBSAI, and CPRI
  
  
• Cypress Introduces PSoC-Based Capacitive Touch Sensor Solution to Meet Growing Demand in Cell Phones, Laptops, Cameras, Industrial Systems and White Goods (Tuesday May. 31, 2005)
  Highly Integrated CapSense(TM) Technology Provides Stylish, Flexible Alternative to Buttons and Other Mechanical Controls, Reducing Cost, Component Count and Design Time
  
  
• GiDEL Ships PROCSpark II Development Board Featuring Altera's Low-Cost FPGAs (Wednesday May. 25, 2005)
  PROCSpark II Board Delivers Reconfigurable Computing for High-Volume Applications
  
  
• Cypress Introduces Industry's First 2.4-GHz Radio-on-a-Chip With Programmable Mixed Signal Array (Monday May. 23, 2005)
  Programmable Radio-on-a-Chip(TM) Melds Two Blockbuster Cypress Technologies -- WirelessUSB(TM) and PSoC(TM)
  
  
• Now Shipping: New Cyclone II Development Kits for Nios II Embedded Processor, DSP, and PCI Designs (Wednesday May. 18, 2005)
  Designers targeting Nios® II embedded processor, digital signal processing (DSP), and PCI designs will benefit from easy prototyping, quick development times, and low cost.
  
  
• Actel Quality Program Receives Stack Certification (Wednesday May. 18, 2005)
  Company Also Receives Recertification for ISO 9001:2000
  
  
• Low-cost FPGAs, IP propel Asian PLD market (Tuesday May. 17, 2005)
  Two recent developments in the programmable logic market have been especifically significant for Asian designers.
  
  
• Altera Solutions Chosen For Texas Instruments DLP TV Products (Tuesday May. 17, 2005)
  Altera FPGAs and HardCopy Structured ASICs Enable Texas Instruments to Deliver Industry-Leading Display Features
  
  
• Actel Provides Smaller, Lighter FPGA Packaging for Military and Aerospace Markets (Tuesday May. 17, 2005)
  New 84-pin CQFP Package for Antifuse-Based RTSX-SU and SX-A FPGAs Saves Significant Board Space and Weight
  
  
• SOPC Builder Enhancements Boost Productivity for Altera Quartus II Software Users (Tuesday May. 10, 2005)
  With new features and SOPC Builder Ready intellectual property (IP) cores, designers can now create systems in minutes using a PCI interface and DDR/DDR2 external memories
  
  
• Xilinx Expands Signal Processing Portfolio For Digital Communication System Design (Wednesday May. 04, 2005)
  New System Generator for DSP v7.1 tool and XtremeDSP Development Kit simplifies high-performance DSP system design
  
  
• Built for Speed: Quartus II Software Version 5.0 Boosts Stratix II Memory Performance Up to 550 MHz (Tuesday May. 03, 2005)
  Fastest Internal Memory Core Frequency of Any FPGA
  
  
• Atmel Extends its FPGA to ASIC Conversion Service for Space Applications (Tuesday May. 03, 2005)
  Atmel Provides Radiation Hardened FPGA Replacement with up to 80% Cost Savings and Shorter Lead-times
  
  
• Atmel's FPSLIC II Dynamically Reconfigurable SoC Supports "Silicon-Sharing" For Peripherals & Interfaces (Tuesday May. 03, 2005)
  Silicon-Sharing Fits 200K Gate Design into 40K Gate FPSLIC II's, Cuts Power Drain by 97%
  
  
• Altera Sets the Standard for Productivity in High-Density Design With Latest Quartus II Software (Monday May. 02, 2005)
  Includes FPGA Industry’s First Incremental Compilation Feature
  
  
• Actel Slashes Prices for Flash FPGAs in Military Temperature Plastic Packages (Monday May. 02, 2005)
  Targeting Avionics Applications, Company Lowers Prices By as Much as 50 Percent for ProASIC Plus Devices
  
  
• Cypress Introduces Programmable System on Chip(TM) (PSoC(TM)) in Tiny 4 x 4 mm Package (Wednesday Apr. 27, 2005)
  New Chip Delivers Extensive Analog and Digital Integration for Space-Constrained Applications Such as Fan Controllers and Battery Chargers
  
  
• Xilinx Virtex Series Surpasses Three Billion In Revenue (Tuesday Apr. 26, 2005)
  World's most widely used FPGAs achieve cumulative revenue of $3B - Best selling FPGA series of all time; over 12x nearest competitor
  
  
• Xilinx Extends Quality Leadership With ISO/TS 16949 Automotive Certification (Monday Apr. 25, 2005)
  Xilinx, Inc. (NASDAQ: XLNX), the world's leading supplier of programmable logic solutions, today announced it has achieved certification for Automotive Industry Quality Standard ISO/TS 16949
  
  
• Altera Joins the Metro Ethernet Forum (Monday Apr. 25, 2005)
  Altera Corporation (NASDAQ:ALTR) today became the newest member of the Metro Ethernet Forum (MEF). As a member of the MEF, Altera joins leading companies from around the world who are working to deliver carrier class Ethernet networks and services to equi