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Greenliant Systems Selects PLDA’s Solution for its Next-Generation PCIe SSD Controller

June 19, 2015

SAN JOSE, CA – June 17, 2015 – PLDA, the industry leader in PCI Express® (PCIe) controller intellectual property (IP) solutions, today announced that Greenliant Systems has selected PLDA’s IP for its next-generation PCIe SSD controller. Greenliant, a leader in energy-efficient, highly secure and reliable solid state storage, controller and flash memory products, joins a growing number of companies using PLDA solutions.

Responding to the growing trend of PCIe use in storage applications, PLDA delivers high-quality, silicon-proven PCIe IP optimized for the solid state drive (SSD) market. The maturity of PLDA’s PCIe controller solution and the company’s reputation … Read More → "Greenliant Systems Selects PLDA’s Solution for its Next-Generation PCIe SSD Controller"

New XMC Modules Feature Xilinx® Artix®-7 FPGA

June 19, 2015

WIXOM, Mich., June 17, 2015 /PRNewswire/ — Acromag’s new XMC-7A200 is a XMC mezzanine module enhanced with Xilinx^® Artix^® -7 FPGA for low-power consumption and exceptional 128M x 16-bit Quad DDR3 SDRAM processing performance. Reconfigurable Artix-7 FPGA is possible via a direct download into the Flash configuration memory over the PCIe bus or the JTAG port. Four-lane high-speed serial interface on rear P15 connector for PCI Express Gen 1/2 (standard), Serial RapidI/O, and Xilinx Aurora implementations are supported. Rear I/O provides 8-lane high-speed serial interface on the P16 XMC port. SelectI/O or LVDS pairs … Read More → "New XMC Modules Feature Xilinx® Artix®-7 FPGA"

Tektronix Releases MIPI C-PHYSM TX Test Solution

June 19, 2015

BEAVERTON, Ore., June 23, 2015 – Tektronix, Inc., the world’s leading manufacturer of oscilloscopes, today announced the industry’s first commercially available oscilloscope-based solution for MIPI® C-PHY^SM physical layer transmitter characterization and debugging. The new solution allows engineers developing next-generation camera technologies using the C-PHY 1.0 interface to conduct in-depth analyses, debugging and characterization of their designs.

Published in September 2014, the MIPI C-PHY standard presents a number of significant test and measurement challenges. The most significant is the use of three-level signaling that is transmitted as a … Read More → "Tektronix Releases MIPI C-PHYSM TX Test Solution"

Microsemi’s SmartFusion2 Secure Boot Solution Addresses Side Channel Analysis Vulnerabilities in Competitors’ FPGAs Requiring External Configuration

June 19, 2015

ALISO VIEJO, Calif.—June 18, 2015—Microsemi Corporation (Nasdaq: MSCC), a leading provider of semiconductor solutions differentiated by power, security, reliability and performance, 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. The DPA testing was completed using the Test Vector Leakage Assessment (TVLA) methodology developed by Cryptography Research Incorporated (CRI), a division of Rambus. Results of the testing show Microsemi’s secure boot solution has sufficient design margin to protect against side … Read More → "Microsemi’s SmartFusion2 Secure Boot Solution Addresses Side Channel Analysis Vulnerabilities in Competitors’ FPGAs Requiring External Configuration"

Algo-Logic Systems Launches Industry-First 40Gbps TCP Endpoint on BittWare S5-PCIe-HQ FPGA Board

June 18, 2015

Santa Clara, California, June 18, 2015 – Algo-Logic Systems, a recognized leader in providing hardware-accelerated, deterministic, ultra-low-latency products, systems and solutions for accelerated finance, datacenter acceleration, and embedded system industries, today announced availability of their new 5th Generation 40G TCP Endpoint running on Bittware’s S5-PCIe-HQ platform. The IP-Core enables FPGA-implemented logic to directly communicate over 40 Gigabit Ethernet networks with remote hardware or software devices and includes easy to use hardware application programming interface that supports multiple real-world accelerated datacenter use cases.

Their network-tested 40G TCP Endpoint delivers ultra-low-latency of 96.0 nanoseconds at full duplex rates of 80 Gbps. This 40G … Read More → "Algo-Logic Systems Launches Industry-First 40Gbps TCP Endpoint on BittWare S5-PCIe-HQ FPGA Board"

Nanonics Connectors from TE Connectivity Offer Weight and Cost Savings

June 18, 2015

HARRISBURG, Pa. – June 18, 2015 – TE Connectivity (TE), a world leader in connectivity, announces its new two-row nanominiature rectangular connectors as the latest addition to its line of nanonics connectors. The ultra-compact and weight-saving connectors have been qualified to MIL-DTL-32139 specifications by the Defense Logistics Agency (DLA) Land and Maritime, and are designed to meet the rugged needs for applications within aerospace and defense, test and measurement, marine, and commercial air.

“TE has answered customers’ need for less expensive nanominiature products while providing interchangeability and meeting … Read More → "Nanonics Connectors from TE Connectivity Offer Weight and Cost Savings"

Imec Presents a Power Model to Minimize the Power Consumption of Mobile Networks

June 18, 2015

Leuven (Belgium), June 18, 2015 – Today, at a celebratory event in New York City to announce the final results of the GreenTouch consortium’s five years of work, imec unveiled an advanced power model that provides a realistic prediction of the power consumption of today’s and future cellular base stations, which are vital to the mobile networks used by millions of people worldwide each day. The model supports a broad range of operating conditions and cellular base station types, covering both conventional and disruptive base station architectures, … Read More → "Imec Presents a Power Model to Minimize the Power Consumption of Mobile Networks"

Nallatech 385A Leads the FPGA Accelerator Revolution

June 18, 2015

Camarillo, CA – Nallatech, a leading supplier of high-performance FPGA solutions, announces the introduction of the 385A™ – a production-ready, server-qualified FPGA card capable of accelerating a new generation of energy-efficient datacenter applications.

The 385A™ is a half-height, half-length PCIe Gen 3 card featuring Altera’s new floating-point enabled Arria 10 FPGA family capable of delivering 1.5 Peak TFlops of floating point performance. Two independent banks of SDRAM memory and dual QSFP+ network ports complete the balanced architecture capable of both co-processing and latency-critical 1G/10G/40G streaming applications.

The 385A will be delivered with an optimized Board Support Package … Read More → "Nallatech 385A Leads the FPGA Accelerator Revolution"

Wind River partners with CoreAVI to offer DO-178C certifiable graphics solutions that enable Intel® HD graphics processors for safety critical platforms

June 18, 2015

Tampa, Florida, June 18, 2015. Core Avionics & Industrial Inc. (CoreAVI) and Wind River^® have announced the availability of safety critical graphics drivers and DO-178C Level A safety certification support for a broad selection of Intel processors. CoreAVI’s HD 4000/5000 OpenGL driver suite supports Intel® HD 4000/5000 graphics processors integrated with Atom™, Core i3™, Core i5™, and Core™ i7 CPUs and SoCs. The graphics driver suite supports the robust safety partitioning and secure virtualization/separation capabilities available with Wind River’s real-time operating system suite, including VxWorks^® 7, VxWorks 653 and VxWorks MILS.

CoreAVI’s and Wind … Read More → "Wind River partners with CoreAVI to offer DO-178C certifiable graphics solutions that enable Intel® HD graphics processors for safety critical platforms"

Synopsys RSoft 2015.06 Release Streamlines Design of Photonic Devices, Photonic Circuits and Fiber Optic Systems

June 18, 2015

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., June 18, 2015 /PRNewswire/ —

Highlights:

Enhanced RSoft™ FullWAVE™ finite-difference time-domain (FDTD) simulations simplify and speed the design of LCDs, surface plasmonics and metamaterials
New features in The RSoft CAD Environment™ make design creation and management faster and easier
New IMEC foundry component libraries and DSP algorithms accelerate the design of photonic chips, modulator circuits and coherent transceivers
Innovative new platform for modeling large-core multimode fibers

Synopsys, Inc. (Nasdaq: SNPS) today … Read More → "Synopsys RSoft 2015.06 Release Streamlines Design of Photonic Devices, Photonic Circuits and Fiber Optic Systems"

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