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• Microsemi Aims to Solve Most Challenging Cyber Security Issues with Formation of a Security Center of Excellence (Wednesday Sep. 09, 2015)
  Microsemi today announced the formation of a Security Center of Excellence in response to rapidly evolving cyber security threats in the connected world.
  
  
• Microsemi's Industry-leading Space Products Support Pluto New Horizons Space Exploration Mission (Wednesday Sep. 02, 2015)
  Microsemi today announced its industry-leading space solutions are onboard NASA's New Horizons spacecraft supporting its successful exploration mission to Pluto.
  
  
• Gowin Semiconductor Corporation Announced New Non-volatile FPGA Devices -- GW1N (Wednesday Aug. 19, 2015)
  Gowin Semiconductor Corporation, a leading FPGA programmable solution provider in Guangdong, China, announced a new family of non-volatile FPGA devices today - GW1N family. This family of devices is based on TSMC 55nm embedded flash process, focusing on low cost, small form packages application.
  
  
• Open-Source Virtual Reality Consortium Selects Xilinx All Programmable Devices to Enable Industry's First, Fully Upgradable Virtual Reality Headset (Tuesday Aug. 18, 2015)
  Xilinx today announced that the Open-Source Virtual Reality Consortium has selected Xilinx All Programmable devices to enable the industry's first, fully upgradable virtual reality headset, the Open-Source Virtual Reality (OSVR) Hacker Development Kit.
  
  
• Altera FPGA Acceleration Solutions on Display at IDF15 (Thursday Aug. 13, 2015)
  Altera Corporation (Nasdaq: ALTR) today announced it will showcase at the Intel Developers Forum (IDF) how FPGA accelerators are being used to enable networking, security and machine learning workloads in a power and cost efficient way.
  
  
• Microsemi Collaborates with Nine Ways Research and Development to Introduce SmartFusion2-based NetFusion Industrial Ethernet Solution (Thursday Aug. 06, 2015)
  Microsemi and Nine Ways Research & Development today announced the availability of Nine Way's NetFusion, an industrial Ethernet switch development board based on Microsemi's SmartFusion™2 system-on-chip (SoC) field programmable gate array (FPGA) device.
  
  
• Altera Integrating Advanced Digital Control into Enpirion PowerSoCs to Improve FPGA Power Efficiency (Monday Aug. 03, 2015)
  Altera today announced the signing of a licensing agreement with ZMDI (Zentrum Mikroelektronik Dresden AG), a German-based analog and mixed signal semiconductor company. Altera will leverage ZMDI’s world-class digital power management technology to integrate advanced multi-mode digital control (MMDC) power capabilities into Enpirion® PowerSoC devices.
  
  
• Xilinx Announces Vivado Design Suite Early Access Support for the 16nm UltraScale+ Portfolio (Tuesday Jul. 21, 2015)
  Xilinx today announced Vivado® Design Suite early access support for the 16nm UltraScale+™ portfolio, including Zynq® UltraScale+ and Kintex® UltraScale+ devices.
  
  
• Altera Showcases the Capabilities of Single-Chip Configurable Processors in Latest MAX 10 FPGA Kit (Tuesday Jul. 21, 2015)
  Altera today announced availability of the second-generation Nios® II Embedded Evaluation Kit (NEEK), which features Altera’s non-volatile MAX® 10 FPGA and Nios II soft-core embedded processor.
  
  
• Xilinx Launches Public Access of the SDSoC Development Environment to Expand Zynq SoC User Base to Broad Community of Systems and Software Engineers (Monday Jul. 20, 2015)
  Xilinx today announced the public access release of the SDSoC™ development environment to expand the user base of Zynq® SoCs and MPSoCs to a broad community of systems and software engineers.
  
  
• Xilinx Joins the Industrial Internet Consortium to Collaborate and Drive Common Architectures and Frameworks within the Industrial IoT (Thursday Jul. 16, 2015)
  Xilinx, Inc. (NASDAQ: XLNX) announced today that it has joined the Industrial Internet Consortium (IIC) to collaborate and drive common architectures and frameworks within the Industrial IoT (IIoT).
  
  
• Altera FPGA-Based Storage Reference Design Doubles Life of NAND Flash (Wednesday Jul. 01, 2015)
  Altera has developed a storage reference design, based on its Arria® 10 SoCs, that doubles the life of NAND flash and can increase the number of program-erase cycles by up to 7X compared to current NAND flash implementations.
  
  
• Xilinx Tapes-Out Industry's First All Programmable Multi-Processor SoC Using TSMC's 16nm FF+ for Embedded Vision, ADAS, I-IoT, and 5G Systems (Wednesday Jul. 01, 2015)
  Xilinx today announced it has taped out the industry's first All Programmable Multi-Processor SoC (MPSoC) using TSMC's 16FF+ process, targeting embedded vision, including ADAS and the path to autonomous vehicles, Industrial Internet of Things (I-IoT), and 5G wireless systems.
  
  
• Xilinx and China Mobile Research Institute Collaborate on Next Generation Fronthaul Interface Development for 5G Wireless Networks (Tuesday Jun. 30, 2015)
  Xilinx, Inc. (NASDAQ: XLNX) today announced its collaboration with China Mobile Research Institute (CMRI) for the development of the next generation fronthaul interface (NGFI) in an MOU signing ceremony during the China Mobile Research Institute hosted NGFI Workshop
  
  
• Altera FPGAs Enable Big Data Storage Security with Advanced Encryption Standard Rates of an Unprecedented 100-Gbps, Full Duplex (Monday Jun. 29, 2015)
  Altera today announced that network security pioneer Secturion Systems, Inc., has chosen Arria® 10 FPGAs for its DarkStor™ secure network storage appliance product lines.
  
  
• GOEPEL electronics protects your Intellectual Property in Xilinx FPGAs (Wednesday Jun. 24, 2015)
  GOEPEL electronics announces support for the Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) for the 7 Series FPGAs. The AES feature is designed for better protection against potential attackers and theft of intellectual property from within the FPGA.
  
  
• ZTE Chooses Lattice Semiconductor for Feature Differentiation and Integration on Star 2 Smartphone (Tuesday Jun. 23, 2015)
  Lattice today announced its iCE40 LM FPGA has been integrated in the recently released ZTE Star 2 flagship smartphone to perform IR remote control, and sensor hub functions.
  
  
• Microsemi's SmartFusion2 Secure Boot Solution Addresses Side Channel Analysis Vulnerabilities in Competitors' FPGAs Requiring External Configuration (Thursday Jun. 18, 2015)
  Microsemi today announced it has completed differential power analysis (DPA) testing on its secure boot field programmable gate array (FPGA) solution, which resolves side channel vulnerabilities inherent in the configuration process of large static random-access memory (SRAM) FPGAs.
  
  
• Altera Arria 10 FPGAs Chosen to Support Real-Time High-Speed Airborne Ethernet Interconnection Technology in Demanding Environments (Monday Jun. 15, 2015)
  Altera today announced that its Arria® 10 FPGAs have been chosen by Silkan, a provider of real-time data transmission, for its new deterministic real-time high-speed Ethernet interconnection technology
  
  
• Xilinx Demonstrates 'Any Media over Any Network' Solutions for the Pro A/V Industry at InfoComm 2015 (Thursday Jun. 11, 2015)
  Xilinx will be demonstrating its 'Any Media over Any Network' solutions optimized for the Pro A/V industry at InfoComm 2015. Xilinx will showcase its All Programmable IP for video processing, video connectivity and Codecs that support 4K and beyond.
  
  
• Microsemi Introduces Automotive-grade SoC FPGAs and FPGAs (Wednesday Jun. 10, 2015)
  The next-generation low power, flash-based FPGAs and ARM® Cortex®-M3 enabled SoC FPGAs have achieved AEC-Q100 grade 2 qualification, an industry standard specification that outlines the criterion for electronics components to ensure that end systems meet automotive reliability levels.
  
  
• Altera Reveals Stratix 10 Innovations Enabling the Industry’s Fastest and Highest Capacity FPGAs and SoCs (Monday Jun. 08, 2015)
  Altera today revealed architectural and product details of its Stratix® 10 FPGAs and SoCs, the next generation of high-end programmable logic devices delivering breakthrough levels of performance, integration, density and security.
  
  
• Microsemi and Sibridge Technologies Collaborate to Develop Portfolio of High-speed Protocol IPs for SmartFusion2 and IGLOO2 FPGAs (Tuesday Jun. 02, 2015)
  Microsemi and Sibridge Technologies today announced the release of a suite of high-speed IP cores targeting Microsemi's SmartFusion®2 SoC FPGAs and IGLOO®2 FPGAs.
  
  
• Xilinx Collaborates with TSMC on 7nm for Fourth Consecutive Generation of All Programmable Technology Leadership and Multi-node Scaling Advantage (Thursday May. 28, 2015)
  Xilinx announced that it has collaborated with TSMC on the 7nm process and 3D IC technology for its next generation of All Programmable FPGAs, MPSoCs, and 3D ICs.
  
  
• Microsemi Achieves QML Class Q Qualification for RT ProASIC3 FPGAs (Thursday May. 28, 2015)
  Microsemi today announced its radiation-tolerant (RT) RT ProASIC®3 field programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) have been qualified by the U.S. Defense Logistics Agency (DLA) as Qualified Manufacturers List (QML) Class Q.
  
  
• New Release of the SDAccel Development Environment Accelerates Data Center Applications with Expanded Ecosystem of Platforms, Libraries, and Design Services (Tuesday May. 26, 2015)
  Xilinx today announced the 2015.1 release of the SDAccel™ development environment for OpenCL™ framework, C, and C++. The SDAccel development environment is a member of the SDx™ family of development environments for systems and software engineers, enabling up to 25X better performance/watt for data center application acceleration leveraging FPGAs.
  
  
• Altera FPGAs Help Enable Deployment of Harris Corporation's Latest Falcon III Wideband Tactical Radio (Tuesday May. 19, 2015)
  Altera today announced that its 28 nm Cyclone® V field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) have been chosen by Harris Corporation for its newest Falcon® III wideband tactical radio.
  
  
• Altera Speeds IEC 61508-compliant Designs with Certified 28 nm FPGAs, SoCs, and Toolflows (Monday May. 18, 2015)
  Altera today announced the availability of the latest version of its Industrial Functional Safety Data Package (Ver. 3), for systems designers using Altera field programmable gate arrays (FPGAs).
  
  
• Microsemi Announces Carrier Ethernet 2.0 Certification for its Turnkey Ethernet Access Switch Solution (Wednesday May. 13, 2015)
  Microsemi today announced it has achieved Metro Ethernet Forum (MEF) Carrier Ethernet (CE) 2.0 certification of its Serval™ VSC7418 CE switch engine and CEServices™ application software.
  
  
• Mitsubishi Electric's Next-Generation MELSEC iQ-R Series C Controller Powered by Altera SoCs to Enable Smarter Factories (Tuesday May. 12, 2015)
  Altera announced today Mitsubishi Electric selected Altera® Cyclone® V SoCs to power its next-generation of C controller for use in smart factory automation equipment.