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Treck Releases High Performance TCP/IP Stack Implementation for the Xilinx Spartan-6 FPGA Embedded Platform

CINCINNATI, Feb. 8 /PRNewswire/ — Treck, a leading provider of embedded Internet protocols, has announced the availability of their new high performance networking reference design for the Xilinx Spartan®-6 FPGA Embedded Platform that includes the SP605 board. The new MicroBlaze™ soft processor-based implementation of the Treck TCP/IP stack achieves upwards of 475 Mbps TCP payload throughput on a Gigabit Ethernet link. This performance is facilitated by zero-copy Treck stack implementation and the Spartan-6 FPGA which includes a hard memory controller that supports DDR3 memory interface at 800Mbps.

Treck provides demos including support for using the … Read More → "Treck Releases High Performance TCP/IP Stack Implementation for the Xilinx Spartan-6 FPGA Embedded Platform"

Yamaha tapes out its latest Graphics LSI Chip with Synopsys Design Compiler Graphical

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., February 9, 2009 —Synopsys, Inc. (Nasdaq:SNPS), a world leader in software and IP for semiconductor design, verification and manufacturing, today announced that Yamaha, a leading provider of mobile audio and Graphics LSI chip products, achieved their aggressive performance targets ahead of schedule with Design Compiler® Graphical and successfully taped out their latest Graphics LSI chip. Traditionally, time-consuming iterations between synthesis and place-and-route have been performed due to routing congestion issues identified by the backend design teams late in the design. Design Compiler Graphical predicts and removes routing congestion early in the design flow during … Read More → "Yamaha tapes out its latest Graphics LSI Chip with Synopsys Design Compiler Graphical"

Dual 500mA Linear LDO Regulator with Independent Inputs Offers Ultralow Noise

MILPITAS, CA – February 9, 2010 – Linear Technology Corporation announces the LT3029, a dual low noise, low dropout regulator with independent inputs and independent shutdown control for each channel. The device delivers up to 500mA per channel of continuous output current with a low dropout voltage of only 300mV at full load. The LT3029 features a wide input voltage range of 1.8V to 20V, delivering output voltages as low as 1.215V and up to 19.5V. The device features ultralow noise of only 20µVRMS across a wide bandwidth of 10Hz to 100kHz, and offers tracking/sequencing capability. Its full feature set and … Read More → "Dual 500mA Linear LDO Regulator with Independent Inputs Offers Ultralow Noise"

Dual 500mA Linear LDO Regulator with Independent Inputs Offers Ultralow Noise

MILPITAS, CA – February 9, 2010 – Linear Technology Corporation announces the LT3029, a dual low noise, low dropout regulator with independent inputs and independent shutdown control for each channel. The device delivers up to 500mA per channel of continuous output current with a low dropout voltage of only 300mV at full load. The LT3029 features a wide input voltage range of 1.8V to 20V, delivering output voltages as low as 1.215V and up to 19.5V. The device features ultralow noise of only 20µVRMS across a wide bandwidth of 10Hz to 100kHz, and offers tracking/sequencing capability. Its full feature set and … Read More → "Dual 500mA Linear LDO Regulator with Independent Inputs Offers Ultralow Noise"

OrCAD Market Reach Expanded With Additional Allegro Technology

Rochester, NY (February 9, 2010) – EMA Design Automation™ (www.ema-eda.com), one of the world’s largest Electronic Design Automation Value Added Resellers, today announced some changes to the part number schema with the new Cadence® Design Systems Allegro® and OrCAD® 16.3 release. These changes enhance the breadth of technology available … Read More → "OrCAD Market Reach Expanded With Additional Allegro Technology"

Could You Make Your Own Processor?

Could you design your own microprocessor or microcontroller? Would you want to?

Designing a microprocessor is one of those EE-student daydreams, like mechanical engineers doodling cars in their notebooks or art students who sketch, well, sketches. It’s a cool idea, and any EE undergrad worth his salt knows, just knowsRead More → "Could You Make Your Own Processor?"

Graphic Composition

I never thought I would be able to quote Karl Marx, the bearded philosopher, historian, revolutionary, and founder of communism, in an article on FPGAs, but here we go. “History repeats itself, first as tragedy, second as farce.”

What I am thinking about is the way in which we design components. With ASICs and SoCs, we have seen a steady progression … Read More → "Graphic Composition"

Intelligent Digital Power Management

Superior Power Management Made Simple.

Actel’s Fusion® FPGA family enables the creation of powerful, highly integrated power management solutions. Power management today must deliver high levels of system power control with minimal impact to power consumption and board space. Actel offers an intelligent digital power management (IDPM) solution that provides high-level power management in a low-power, configurable, single-chip design.

The IDPM solution embeds a capable 32-bit ARM® Cortex™-M1 microprocessor, … Read More → "Intelligent Digital Power Management"

Mixed-Signal Power Management: Bridging the Analog-Digital Divide with Mixed-Signal FPGA Graphical Design Configuration Methodology

The management of power at the system level is a challenge faced by all system designers, but designers face a daunting divide between digital and analog when considering tools, practices, and methodologies. A new methodology developed by Actel, implemented in a … Read More → "Mixed-Signal Power Management: Bridging the Analog-Digital Divide with Mixed-Signal FPGA Graphical Design Configuration Methodology"

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