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• Tool bundles target FPGAs
  
  Author: By Graham Prophet, Europe Editor | Date: Jun 25, 2009
  Xilinx this year introduced two families of Virtex-6 and Spartan-6 FPGAs that enable targeted-design platforms. The company is now adding domain-specific-tool support to the targeted-platform concept. Xilinxâ ISE (integrated software environment) Design Suite 11.1 offers interoperable
• Embedded Systems Conference: Quick roundup
  
  Author: By Matthew Miller, Editor-in-Chief, EDN.com | Date: Apr 15, 2008
  Here's a roundup of some of the more significant product and corporate-cooperation items from this week's Embedded Systems Conference, taking place in San Jose.
• Altera spins Cyclone with low-power, design protection, and redundancy
  
  Author: Ron Wilson | Date: Jun 29, 2009
  EDN Executive Editor Ron Wilson explores how IC design teams really work: the struggle for power efficiency and performance, wrestling with semiconductor processes and design methodologies, the challenges of global design teams. How do we somehow herd architecture, IP, design and verification into
• Lattice expands partnership with Synplicity
  
  Author: By Ann Steffora Mutschler, Senior Editor | Date: Apr 21, 2008
  FPGA supplier Lattice Semiconductor has expanded its existing OEM agreement with Synplicity, whereby Synplicity will be Lattice’s exclusive synthesis partner, and Lattice will broaden its synthesis offering in its ispLEVER design tool suite to include Synplify’s Pro logic synthesis software for
• EDN's 2005 Innovation Awards nominees - Nominee Detail - WINNER: Fusion mixed-signal FPGA (Actel)
  
  Fusion combines mixed-signal analog capabilities with large amounts of flash memory and an FPGA fabric. The Fusion PSC (Programmable System Chip) brings the benefits of FPGAs to applications that historically have been served by discrete analog-component and mixed-signal-ASIC suppliers.
• Implement a simple digital-serial NRZ data-recovery algorithm in an FPGA
  
  Author: Jef Thoné and Bob Puers, ESAT-MICAS, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Leuven, Belgium; Edited by Martin Rowe and Fran Granville | Date: Jun 11, 2009
  A shift register and some logic lets you recover embedded clocks from data streams.
• 2008 EDN DSP Directory: Stratix III FPGAs
  
  Altera's new Stratix III family of low power, high-performance FPGAs introduce a new and innovative FPGA architecture that goes beyond optimized process and circuit techniques.
• Voices: Is multimedia abandoning DSPs? Analog Devices disagrees
  
  Author: Interview conducted and edited by Brian Dipert | Date: May 28, 2009
  Denis Labrecque, marketing-programs manager at Analog Devices, sounds off on DSPs’ past, present, and future in audio, graphics, and imaging.
• 2008 EDN MICROPROCESSOR AND MICROCONTROLLER DIRECTORY
  
  Actel offers high-performance IP cores and single-chip FPGA products, including FPGAs based on antifuse and flash technologies.
• Power fortunes: Estimating power in FPGA designs
  
  Author: By Ron Wilson, Executive Editor | Date: Apr 23, 2009
  As FPGAs enter new applications, designers must estimate power consumption early, closely watch it, and then attempt to measure the results.
• 2008 EDN MICROPROCESSOR AND MICROCONTROLLER DIRECTORY
  
  Cambridge Consultants offers an extensive library of analogue, digital, mixed-signal and wireless IP cores together with embedded software development tools, protocol stacks and design platforms for ASIC and FPGA.
• FPGA serial I/O hits 11.3 Gbps
  
  Author: By Graham Prophet, Europe Editor | Date: Apr 9, 2009
  In the latest additions to its Stratix range of FPGAs, Altera has incorporated serial-data transceivers that support signal rates as high as 11.3 Gbps. The company envisages the Stratix IV GT’s parts finding applications in 40- or 100-Gbps systems. You might use a link at the maximum speed to
• 2007 EDN DSP Directory: Stratix III FPGAs
  
  2007 EDN DSP Directory By Robert Cravotta, Technical Editor A comprehensive listing of digital-signal-processing resources, including software-programmable processors, programmable fabrics, IP (intellectual-property) blocks, and digital-signal controllers.
• Flip-flop flap
  
  Author: By Holger Steffens, Ident Technology | Date: Apr 9, 2009
  A USB controller in an FPGA hangs up after just a couple of seconds of operation. Simulations showed that everything was fine.
• FPGA Gurus News | EDN
  
  EDN.com is a comprehensive information source for providing in-depth technical information for electronics design engineers and news and business strategy insight for executives
• Altera, Xilinx post tepid quarterly results on weak communications, industrial demand
  
  Author: By Colleen Taylor, Contributing Editor | Date: Oct 24, 2007
  Due to weaker-than-expected demand from the programmable logic companies' communications and industrial customers, both Altera and Xilinx posted tepid sales and income results for their most recent financial quarters.
• 2009 EDN DIGITAL SIGNAL PROCESSING DIRECTORY
  
  An inclusive listing of DSP resources, including software-programmable processors, programmable fabrics, IP (intellectual-property) blocks, and digital-signal controllers. By Robert Cravotta, Technical Editor.
• NI collaborates for FPGA IP, I/O modules resource
  
  Author: By Suzanne Deffree, News Editor | Date: Nov 13, 2007
  National Instruments is using its vast partner relationships to target FPGA in measurement, control and signal processing.
• 2008 EDN MICROPROCESSOR AND MICROCONTROLLER DIRECTORY
  
  The IBM PowerPC 405 core is a hard 32-bit RISC CPU core immersed directly into the Xilinx FPGA fabric to support a variety of high performance embedded applications, such as wired communications and imaging/video applications.
• LatticeMico32 - 2007 EDN Microprocessor/Microcontroller Directory - Details on hundreds of
  
  2007 EDN Microprocessor Directory: Different strokes By Robert Cravotta, Technical Editor Our 34th Annual Microprocessor and Microcontroller Directory presents you with a palette of processing options and development tools for your project.