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ADLINK Reveals ATCA Blade with Dual 6-core Intel® Xeon® Processor L5638

March 24, 2010, San Jose, Calif – ADLINK Technology, Inc., a leading provider of trusted telecom computing products, today announced availability of the aTCA-6150, an AdvancedTCA® (ATCA) processor blade featuring dual next-generation 32 nm six-core Intel® Xeon® processor L5638 with 2.00 GHz core-speed, the Intel® 5520 chipset, up to 48 GB of DDR3 memory, and an optional PICMG® Mid-size AMC bay for increased computing performance and flexibility. ADLINK debuts the aTCA-6150 as a six-core performance and power consumption enhancement to its ATCA … Read More → "ADLINK Reveals ATCA Blade with Dual 6-core Intel® Xeon® Processor L5638"

VIA Takes the Jitters Out of Online HD Video

Taipei, Taiwan, March 23, 2010 – VIA Technologies, Inc, a leading innovator of power efficient x86 processor platforms, today announced the new VIA VX900 media system processor, a full featured single chip solution that will be coupled with the latest VIA Nano-3000 Series processors to bring truly stunning video playback to the latest HD online video services.

“VIA’s trail-blazing VX900 will bring welcome relief to those pining for the best view of HD video online,” said Richard Brown, Vice President of Marketing, VIA Technologies, Inc. “The VIA VX900 represents the most complete solution for HD digital content consumption on … Read More → "VIA Takes the Jitters Out of Online HD Video"

EMA CircuitSpace 4.0 Allows Flexible Replication and Design Reuse

Rochester, NY (March 24, 2010) – EMA Design Automation™ (www.ema-eda.com), a full-service provider of Electronic Design Automation (EDA) solutions, today announced CircuitSpace® version 4.0, which offers advanced placement and design reuse capabilities along with other features to help expedite the PCB layout placement process. “Our development team is dedicated to providing customers with high value added features to improve their PCB design productivity,” said Manny Marcano, president and CEO of EMA Design Automation. “With the new and enhanced features of CircuitSpace 4.0, designers and engineers will dramatically improve their cycle times and … Read More → "EMA CircuitSpace 4.0 Allows Flexible Replication and Design Reuse"

IAR Systems Supports Actel’s New SmartFusion Intelligent Mixed Signal FPGAs

March 24, 2010 – Foster City, CA- IAR Systems®, a leading provider of software tools for embedded systems today announced  support for Actel’s SmartFusion™ devices that integrate an FPGA, ARM® Cortex™-M3-based microcontroller subsystem and programmable analog on a single chip. IAR Embedded Workbench® seamlessly combines with an eco-system of middleware options, a major advantage for end users adopting these new devices. SmartFusion devices offer a compelling solution in a wide variety of applications, including motor control, system … Read More → "IAR Systems Supports Actel’s New SmartFusion Intelligent Mixed Signal FPGAs"

Avnet Spartan-6 FPGA DSP Development Kit Jump Starts DSP Designs

PHOENIX– March 24, 2010 — The Avnet Electronics Marketing operating group of Avnet, Inc. (NYSE: AVT), introduces the Xilinx®Spartan®-6 FPGA DSP Development Kit. Order entry is now open for the $1,995 kit, which includes a device-locked version of ISE®Design Suite: System Edition 11.4. Spartan-6 FPGAs produce up to 45 GMACs of performance in a single part, offering the ideal solution for cost-prohibitive designs.

The Spartan-6 FPGA DSP Development Kit enables users to focus on the unique value of their design with an easy entry point for using FPGAs for DSP. … Read More → "Avnet Spartan-6 FPGA DSP Development Kit Jump Starts DSP Designs"

Tabula Gets Real

It doesn’t usually happen this fast… or this slowly.

Tabula, who just a couple weeks ago announced their Spacetime 3D FPGA architecture (see our article here) has now followed up with product announcements for their new ABAX family of FPGAs.  As predicted, ABAX comes in sizes (or size-equivalents) that are favorably competitive with current 40nm high-end FPGAs, and at very low prices.  The A1EC04 devices (rated at .39 “MegaLUTs”) are expected to be sampling in Q3 and shipping … Read More → "Tabula Gets Real"

Inside-Out Pixels and Quantum Dots

They say good things come in threes. Or maybe it’s disasters. Either way, today we roll out the third of our camera-related announcements. Earlier we covered Ceva’s MM3000 cell-phone processor and the Movidius video-editing coprocessor chip. This week it’s Silicon Valley startup InVisage and its unique take on image sensors.

Silicon is a wonderful thing (so is silicone, but that’s a different discussion…). It excels as a … Read More → "Inside-Out Pixels and Quantum Dots"

Tabula Launches ABAXTM Family of 3-D Programmable Logic Devices Delivering Unprecedented Capabilities at Volume Price Points

Santa Clara, Calif., March 15, 2010 – Tabula, Inc., a privately held fabless semiconductor company that has developed the Spacetime 3-D architecture, today launched the ABAX family of 3-D Programmable Logic Devices (3PLD). Based on the revolutionary Spacetime architecture that delivers the benefits of 3-D by using time as a third dimension, ABAX enables high-performance, compute-intensive applications on a programmable platform at volume price points. Providing programmability in applications historically served only by ASICs or ASSPs, ABAX represents a new category of programmable logic device. ABAX resets the bar for the capability and density of programmable logic, memory and … Read More → "Tabula Launches ABAXTM Family of 3-D Programmable Logic Devices Delivering Unprecedented Capabilities at Volume Price Points"

Accelerating Exploration

Design is all about getting from where you are to where you want to be. Only you’re not quite sure how you’re going to get there. In fact, you may not even know exactly where you’re going to end up. It’s almost like being Neil Armstrong or, perhaps better yet, Lewis and Clark. Maybe even the early vanguard crossing the land bridge at what is today’s Bering Strait.

If you think about some of the early explorers, it’s not like … Read More → "Accelerating Exploration"

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