MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., July 19, 2010– Actel today announced that its radiation-tolerant RTAX-DSP FPGAs have completed qualification in accordance with the military and aerospace industry standard MIL-STD-883 Class B specification. This qualification expands Actel’s support of high-speed signal processing applications for space payloads and exemplifies its ongoing innovation and commitment to serve designers of spaceflight systems. RTAX-DSP FPGAs offer designers the same reliability characteristics as the widely-adopted RTAX-S FPGAs, and also include enhancements to improve tolerance to radiation-induced single-event transients. When compared to radiation-hardened ASICs and SRAM-based FPGAs, RTAX-DSP FPGAs give designers a compelling alternative for signal processing applications in … Read More → "Actel’s RTAX-DSP FPGAs Achieve MIL-STD-883 Class B Qualification"

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., July 19, 2010–Reaffirming its leadership in the space market, Actel today announced the first fully qualified flash based FPGAs for space flight applications. Actel’s  RT ProASIC®3family successfully passed the extensive testing required for MIL-STD-883 Class B qualification. Building on its 17 year heritage and leadership of providing antifuse FPGAs for system critical applications, Actel ushers in a new paradigm in the space market with the qualification of its flash-based RT ProASIC3 devices.

The RT ProASIC3 FPGA family provides designers of spaceflight systems with reprogrammability for easy prototyping and design validation, while at … Read More → "Actel’s Radiation-Tolerant Flash Based FPGAs Now Qualified for Spaceflight Systems"

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., July 19, 2010–Reaffirming its leadership in the space market, Actel today announced the first fully qualified flash based FPGAs for space flight applications. Actel’s  RT ProASIC®3family successfully passed the extensive testing required for MIL-STD-883 Class B qualification. Building on its 17 year heritage and leadership of providing antifuse FPGAs for system critical applications, Actel ushers in a new paradigm in the space market with the qualification of its flash-based RT ProASIC3 devices.

The RT ProASIC3 FPGA family provides designers of spaceflight systems with reprogrammability for easy prototyping and design validation, while at … Read More → "Actel’s Radiation-Tolerant Flash Based FPGAs Now Qualified for Spaceflight Systems"

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., July 19th 2010 — Actel Corporation today announced CoreFIR v4.0, leveraging the embedded radiation-tolerant multiply-accumulate blocks provided in Actel’s recently qualified RTAX-DSP FPGAs (see Actel’s RTAX-DSP FPGAs Achieve MIL-STD-883 Class B Qualification). RTAX-DSP FPGAs integrate radiation-tolerant math blocks with the spaceflight-proven industry-standard RTAX-S FPGA architecture. CoreFIR v4.0 utilises these on-chip resources to implement a highly parameterizable, single-rate, fully-enumerated Finite Impulse Response (FIR) filter, delivering one of the essential building blocks in DSP systems.

As opposed to high throughput DSP technologies used on SRAM FPGAs, Actel’s antifuse based RTAX-DSP devices are radiation tolerant and … Read More → "Actel’s CoreFIR v4.0 Delivers Configurable Digital Filter Generation for RTAX-DSP With On-Chip Math Blocks"

San Jose, Calif. July 19, 2010 – Xilinx, Inc. (Nasdaq: XLNX) today launched the industry’s first high-density, rad-hard reconfigurable FPGA for withstanding radiation environments encountered by applications ranging from low earth-orbiting satellites to systems supporting inter-planetary missions. The off-the-shelf Xilinx® Virtex®-5QV FPGA offers the industry’s highest density, performance and integration capabilities for complex systems that would otherwise require rad-hard ASIC devices with their high development costs and long lead times, or traditional one-time programmable (OTP) solutions. The unique combination of rad-hard and re-configurability enables a tremendous reduction in risk to … Read More → "Xilinx Launches First High-Density, Rad-Hard Reconfigurable FPGA For Space Applications"

San Jose, Calif. July 19, 2010 – Xilinx, Inc. (Nasdaq: XLNX) today launched the industry’s first high-density, rad-hard reconfigurable FPGA for withstanding radiation environments encountered by applications ranging from low earth-orbiting satellites to systems supporting inter-planetary missions. The off-the-shelf Xilinx® Virtex®-5QV FPGA offers the industry’s highest density, performance and integration capabilities for complex systems that would otherwise require rad-hard ASIC devices with their high development costs and long lead times, or traditional one-time programmable (OTP) solutions. The unique combination of rad-hard and re-configurability enables a tremendous reduction in risk to … Read More → "Xilinx Launches First High-Density, Rad-Hard Reconfigurable FPGA For Space Applications"

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., July 19th 2010  — Actel today announced CoreFFT v4.0, an intellectual property (IP) core providing Fast Fourier Transform (FFT) capabilities to DSP solutions in high reliability, radiation-tolerant spaceflight applications. Actel’s recently qualified RTAX-DSP FPGAs (see Actel’s RTAX-DSP FPGAs Achieve MIL-STD-883 Class B Qualification) integrate radiation-tolerant math blocks with the spaceflight-proven industry-standard RTAX-S FPGA architecture. CoreFFT v4.0 uses these on-chip resources to deliver a flexible, fully configurable radix-2 decimation-in-time (DIT) burst I/O FFT for high reliability, radiation-tolerant applications.

CoreFFT v4.0 implements the efficient Cooley-Tukey algorithm for computing discrete Fourier transforms, delivering a hardware … Read More → "CoreFFT v4.0 Now Available for Actel’s RTAX-DSP FPGAs"

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., July 19th 2010  — Actel today announced CoreFFT v4.0, an intellectual property (IP) core providing Fast Fourier Transform (FFT) capabilities to DSP solutions in high reliability, radiation-tolerant spaceflight applications. Actel’s recently qualified RTAX-DSP FPGAs (see Actel’s RTAX-DSP FPGAs Achieve MIL-STD-883 Class B Qualification) integrate radiation-tolerant math blocks with the spaceflight-proven industry-standard RTAX-S FPGA architecture. CoreFFT v4.0 uses these on-chip resources to deliver a flexible, fully configurable radix-2 decimation-in-time (DIT) burst I/O FFT for high reliability, radiation-tolerant applications.

CoreFFT v4.0 implements the efficient Cooley-Tukey algorithm for computing discrete Fourier transforms, delivering a hardware … Read More → "CoreFFT v4.0 Now Available for Actel’s RTAX-DSP FPGAs"

Oslo, Norway, July 19th, 2010 – Energy Micro®, the energy friendly microcontroller company, has announced details of its EFM®32 Giant Gecko microcontroller product family.  For energy sensitive applications with high memory requirements, the 32-bit Giant Gecko (GG) will provide Flash configurations up to 1024KB with the added option of embedded USB connectivity.

There will be 48 EFM32GG microcontrollers offering a choice of 64, 128, 256, 512 and 1024 KB Flash memory blocks and a RAM of 32KB or 128KB.  The microcontrollers’ pin and software compatibility with the existing Gecko product family means designers can develop products using the existing Gecko … Read More → "Energy Micro adds Giant Gecko microcontroller for memory heavy applications"

HILLSBORO, OR — JULY 19, 2010 — Lattice Semiconductor Corporation (NASDAQ: LSCC) today announced that it has released more than 90 reference designs optimized for the MachXO^TM and ispMACH® 4000ZE PLDs. Reference designs enable the quick and efficient design and deployment of commonly used functions such as general purpose I/O expander, I2C bus master / slave, LCD controller and SD Flash controller, as well as other interfaces, in a variety of markets including consumer, communications, computing, industrial and medical. The reference designs, coupled with complete documentation and design source code, are fully customizable and enable designers to reduce design … Read More → "Lattice Expands Reference Design Portfolio For Popular MachXO and ispMACH 4000ZE PLDs"