Altium has expanded its NanoBoard 3000 platform with a board hosting an Altera Cyclone III FPGA.

Altium has expanded its NanoBoard 3000 platform with a board hosting an Altera Cyclone III FPGA.

Tensilica introduced HiFi EP, a superset of the HiFi 2 architecture that is optimized for simultaneous multichannel codec support and continuously expanding audio pre- and post-processing.

Synthesis tool vendor Synfora Inc. announced it has extended support for C++ language in its PICO Extreme and PICO Extreme FPGA C synthesis tools.

FPGA vendor Altera plans to introduce several innovations for its first 28-nm chips, including partial reconfiguration, 28-gigabit-per-second transceivers and embedded hard intellectual property blocks, the company said. b

FPGA vendor Altera plans to introduce several innovations for its first 28-nm chips, including partial reconfiguration, 28-gigabit-per-second transceivers and embedded hard intellectual property blocks, the company said. b

I recently spoke with Kapil Shankar, CEO of FPGA startup SiliconBlue Technologies, who told me the company now has over 100 design wins under its belt and will seek another round of financing in the next few months.

By building a three-dimensional field-programmable FPGA with an ultra-dense anti-fuse interconnect, NuPGA claims to be able to achieve the density of an ASIC at a fraction of the cost.

UMC and Xilinx announced they have fully qualified the Virtex-6 FPGA family on the foundry's high-performance 40nm logic process.

LSI Corp. has added a new Power PC processor and fast embedded DRAM cores to its library, claiming demand for custom silicon is on the rise in its core networking and storage markets as it moves into 40nm technology and targets the transition to 10 Gbit Ethernet.