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• NEC and AIST Develop LSI with NanoBridge Technology Featuring High Radiation Tolerance for use in Space (Wednesday Mar. 08, 2017)
  NEC Corporation (NEC) and the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST) today announced the development of an NB-FPGA (Note 1) that incorporates NanoBridge metal atom migration-type switch technology utilizing TIA (Note 2), an open innovation hub operated by five institutes in Tsukuba and Tokyo.
  
  
• Xilinx Unveils Disruptive Integration and Architectural Breakthrough for 5G Wireless with RF-Class Analog Technology (Tuesday Feb. 21, 2017)
  Xilinx today announced a disruptive integration and architectural breakthrough for 5G wireless with the infusion of RF-class analog technology into its 16nm All Programmable MPSoCs.
  
  
• Lattice Semiconductor Expands CrossLink Programmable ASSP (pASSP) IP Solutions (Tuesday Feb. 21, 2017)
  Lattice Semiconductor today announced the expansion of its Lattice CrossLink™ programmable ASSP (pASSP) solutions to enable new video bridging capabilities with the release of three new CrossLink intellectual property (IP) and two new CrossLink demonstration platforms showcasing MIPI® DSI to LVDS and CMOS to MIPI CSI-2.
  
  
• Microsemi Unveils Industry's Lowest Power Cost-Optimized FPGA Product Family for Access Networks, Wireless Infrastructure, Defense and Industry 4.0 Markets (Tuesday Feb. 14, 2017)
  New PolarFire FPGAs Deliver 500K Logic Elements, 12.7G Transceivers at Up to 50 Percent Lower Power Than Competing Mid-Range FPGAs
  
  
• Intel Introduces Versatile New FPGA for Industrial and Automotive Markets (Monday Feb. 13, 2017)
  To serve the growing number of Internet of Things (IoT) applications, Intel Corporation today announced the Intel® Cyclone® 10 family of field programmable gate arrays (FPGAs). Designed to deliver fast and power-efficient processing, they have a variety of uses, including for automotive, industrial automation, pro audio visual and vision systems.
  
  
• Crestron Moves to Intel FPGAs to Improve Video Quality, Connections (Wednesday Feb. 08, 2017)
  Crestron today announced that it will use Intel Arria® 10 FPGAs in a new digital media AV distribution system that supports 4K-quality video conferencing and a seamless connection for users, no matter what devices they use.
  
  
• ZTE Wireless Institute Achieves Performance Breakthrough for Deep Learning with Intel FPGAs (Wednesday Jan. 25, 2017)
  Intel and ZTE, a leading technology telecommunications equipment and systems company, have worked together to reach a new benchmark in deep learning and convolutional neural networks (CNN).
  
  
• Xilinx FPGAs to be Deployed in New Amazon EC2 F1 Instances - Accelerating Genomics, Financial Analytics, Video Processing, Big Data, Security, and Machine Learning Inference (Wednesday Dec. 07, 2016)
  Xilinx, Inc. (NASDAQ:XLNX) today announced that Amazon Web Services (AWS) is deploying Xilinx 16nm UltraScale+™ Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs) in the new Amazon Elastic Cloud Compute (Amazon EC2) F1 instance type, accelerating genomics, financial analytics, video processing, big data, security, and machine learning inference workloads.
  
  
• Xilinx Reconfigurable Acceleration Stack Delivers Fastest Path to 2-6x Compute Efficiency over FPGA Competition (Monday Nov. 14, 2016)
  Xilinx today at SC16 unveiled a new suite of technology designed to enable the world's largest cloud service providers to rapidly develop and deploy acceleration platforms.
  
  
• Xilinx Unveils Details for New 16nm Virtex UltraScale+ FPGAs with High Bandwidth Memory and CCIX Technology (Wednesday Nov. 09, 2016)
  Xilinx today unveiled details for new 16nm Virtex® UltraScale+™ FPGAs with HBM and CCIX technology. Containing the highest memory bandwidth available, these HBM-enabled FPGAs offer 20X higher memory bandwidth relative to a DDR4 DIMM and 4X less power per bit versus competing memory technologies.
  
  
• Microsemi Achieves MIL-STD-883 Class B Qualification for its RTG4 High-Speed Radiation-Tolerant FPGAs (Wednesday Nov. 02, 2016)
  Microsemi today announced its RTG4™ high-speed signal processing radiation-tolerant FPGAs have achieved MIL-STD-883 Class B qualification, meeting the industry's standard for qualifying microelectronic devices suitable for use within aerospace and defense electronic systems.
  
  
• Lattice Semiconductor Releases Optimized Connectivity Solutions Based on ECP5-5G FPGAs for Communications and Industrial Markets (Monday Oct. 31, 2016)
  Lattice today announced the availability of new ECP5-5G™-based IP and solutions, part of the Company’s ECP5 family of low power, small form factor connectivity FPGAs for industrial and communications applications.
  
  
• PRO DESIGN Expands FPGA Prototyping Portfolio with High-Speed proFPGA Virtex UltraScale based FPGA Modules (Tuesday Oct. 25, 2016)
  PRO DESIGN, veteran in the EMS and EDA industry, today announced the availability of five new high-speed FPGA modules for its successful and innovative proFPGA product family of FPGA based prototyping solutions.
  
  
• Xilinx Zynq SoCs and MPSoCs Power Embedded Vision and IIoT Applications at ARM TechCon 2016 (Monday Oct. 24, 2016)
  Xilinx, Inc. (NASDAQ:XLNX) will showcase its Zynq® SoCs and MPSoCs that power Embedded Vision and IIoT applications at ARM TechCon 2016.
  
  
• Baidu Adopts Xilinx to Accelerate Machine Learning Applications in the Data Center (Monday Oct. 17, 2016)
  Xilinx today announced that Baidu, the leading Chinese language Internet search provider, is utilizing Xilinx® FPGAs to accelerate machine learning applications in their data centers in China.
  
  
• Xilinx Announces Production Milestone for 16nm UltraScale+ Portfolio Ahead of Schedule (Wednesday Oct. 12, 2016)
  Xilinx today announced it has reached a significant production milestone for its 16nm UltraScale+™ portfolio ahead of schedule. Less than a year after first ship of all devices, open order entry for production devices is available this quarter.
  
  
• Xilinx Extends its Cost-Optimized Portfolio Targeting a Wide Range of Applications Including Embedded Vision and Industrial IoT (Tuesday Sep. 27, 2016)
  The expanded Xilinx Spartan®, Artix®, and Zynq® product families address next generation any-to-any connectivity, sensor fusion, precision control, image processing, analytics, and safety and security.
  
  
• Lattice Semiconductor Expands Automotive Product Portfolio With Addition of ECP5 and CrossLink Programmable Devices (Tuesday Sep. 13, 2016)
  Lattice today announced the expansion of its automotive product portfolio with ECP5™ and CrossLink™ programmable devices tailored specifically for interface bridging applications.
  
  
• Microsemi Announces New Addition to its Imaging/Video Solution to Support Growing Demand for MIPI CSI-2 Interfaces (Tuesday Sep. 13, 2016)
  Microsemi today announced a new addition to its imaging/video solution supporting the popular Mobile Industry Processor Interface (MIPI) camera serial interface (CSI-2).
  
  
• PLDA GROUP announces tighter collaboration with Xilinx on Vivado HLS to enhance software programmability of Xilinx FPGAs in QuickPlay. (Tuesday Aug. 02, 2016)
  With the latest release of QuickPlay, version 2.1, users can now benefit from an integrated flow to use Vivado® HLS kernels within their QuickPlay designs, benefitting from a state of the art HLS engine for FPGA while keeping the benefit of QuickPlay’s truly Software Defined development flow.
  
  
• Microsemi Announces Imaging/Video Solution Providing a Secure, Reliable, Low Power Device for Imaging Applications (Tuesday Jul. 12, 2016)
  Microsemi Corporation (Nasdaq: MSCC), a leading provider of semiconductor solutions differentiated by power, security, reliability and performance, today announced the availability of a new imaging/video solution for the development of low power and reliable video processing applications.
  
  
• Microsemi Announces New Development Kit with RTG4 PROTO FPGAs, Providing Space Designers a Comprehensive Evaluation and Design Platform (Tuesday Jun. 28, 2016)
  Microsemi Corporation (Nasdaq: MSCC), a leading provider of semiconductor solutions differentiated by power, security, reliability and performance, today announced the availability of its RTG4™ Development Kit with its recently announced RTG4™ PROTO field programmable gate arrays (FPGAs).
  
  
• PLDA GROUP launches QuickStore, a unique online Marketplace for developers and users of FPGA accelerators (Wednesday Jun. 22, 2016)
  Today, PLDA GROUP announces the launch of its QuickStore online marketplace where QuickPlay users can select FPGA IP from multiple vendors to be used within their FPGA designs. QuickStore is a critical element of the QuickPlay strategy to bring FPGA design to a large audience of developers, way beyond the traditional pool of FPGA experts.
  
  
• Xilinx Broadens the Zynq UltraScale+ MPSoC Family with Streamlined Dual-Core Devices (Wednesday Jun. 15, 2016)
  Xilinx today announced it has added streamlined dual-core members to the Zynq® UltraScale+™ MPSoC family of devices. The new dual-core "CG" family members expand the Zynq MPSoC portfolio scalability, to include dual application and real-time processor combinations.
  
  
• Xilinx Extends SDSoC Development Environment, Enabling Software Defined Programming of the 16nm Zynq Ultrascale+ MPSoC (Wednesday Jun. 08, 2016)
  Xilinx, Inc. (NASDAQ:XLNX) today announced the 2016.1 release of the SDSoC™ development environment, enabling software defined programming for the Zynq family of SoCs and multi-processing (MP) SoCs using C and C++ languages.
  
  
• CERTON to Provide RTCA/DO-254 COTS IP Functional Safety Certification Packages for Commercial and Military Aerospace Applications (Monday Jun. 06, 2016)
  CERTON Engineering is partnered with Altera, now the Intel® Programmable Solutions Group, to provide DO-254 compliant certification packages of their COTS IP FPGA cores. CERTON, as part of the relationship, has direct access to vendor IP designs and tool qualifications supporting certification as required by the FAA and other regulatory agencies.
  
  
• Xilinx Expands its 16nm UltraScale+ Product Roadmap to Include Acceleration Enhanced Technologies for the Data Center (Monday May. 23, 2016)
  Xilinx today announced expansion of its 16nm UltraScale+™ product roadmap with new acceleration enhanced technologies for the Data Center. The resulting products will deliver the powerful combination of Xilinx's industry-leading 16nm FinFET+ FPGAs with integrated High-Bandwidth Memory (HBM), and support for the recently announced Cache Coherent Interconnect for Acceleration technology (CCIX).
  
  
• Microsemi Announces RTG4 PROTO FPGAs to Enable Lower Cost Prototyping and Design Validation for High-Speed Radiation-Tolerant FPGAs (Thursday May. 19, 2016)
  Microsemi today announced the availability of its RTG4™ PROTO field programmable gate arrays (FPGAs). The devices, developed specifically to enable prototyping of space systems, enable lower cost prototyping and design validation activities for the latest radiation-tolerant high-speed FPGAs.
  
  
• Altera Accelerates High-capacity FPGA Design with Quartus Prime Pro Design Software (Monday May. 09, 2016)
  Altera, now part of Intel, today announced the production release of the new Quartus® Prime Pro design software, which further accelerates FPGA design performance and design team productivity. The Quartus Prime Pro software is architected to support the next generation of high capacity, highly integrated FPGAs from Intel, which will drive innovation across the cloud, data center, Internet of Things, and the networks that connect them.
  
  
• Altera's Design Solutions Network Connects Customers with Experts to Help Innovate With Their FPGA-Based Designs (Monday May. 02, 2016)
  Altera, now part of Intel Corporation, today announced the launch of its Design Solutions Network (DSN), a global ecosystem unifying a robust network of design services, IP, board and commercial-off-the-shelf (COTS) companies into a single program.