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  • Xilinx Spartan-6 LX16 Evaluation Kit

    At the heart of the Xilinx Spartan-6 LX16 FPGA Evaluation Board is a Cypress PSoC 3 programmable system-on-chip. The PSoC 3 device integrates precision analog sensing, system management and user interface functions. The PSoC 3 device performs power management, CapSense touch-sensing, USB/UART/SPI connectivity and configuration...

    FPGA Blog
  • Reconfigurable Instruments Respond To Custom Demands

    Reconfigurable end systems mean test challenges that are best served by reconfigurable instruments. NI's Eric Starkloff covers the role of FPGAs in such test scenarios, as well as how reconfigurable test can reduce the time and cost of test....

    Electronics Design Articles
  • Embedded Processors in FPGAs Amplify Verification Challenges

    Embedded processor cores for DSP, microcontroller and microprocessor functions are becoming increasingly common in FPGAs. Both Xilinx and Altera have long offered their own embedded soft IP cores, and a growing trend is to also support the integration of third-party hard IP cores, such as the PowerPC or ARM families. Gartner...

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  • Synopsys and Lattice Renew OEM Relationship

    Synopsys, Inc. and Lattice Semiconductor Corporation announced a multi-year extension of Lattice's OEM agreement for the Synopsys Synplify® FPGA synthesis tools, which Lattice has been offering to its customers for more than 10 years. Under the terms of the agreement, Lattice Semiconductor will provide specific versions...

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Featured Articles

  • Design abstraction – tyranny or triumph?

    Decades ago when Microsoft unleashed Windows on the world, a colleague disparagingly dubbed the new operating environment as ‘DOS in a clown suit’. He had a point. For all

  • Changes in ASIC Landscape Open Opportunities for FPGAs

    Economic, financial and competitive conditions are forcing ASIC and ASSP vendors to focus their efforts on very high volume markets and applications thereby creating a gap in the available

  • FPGAs Gain Ground In China

    FPGAs are booming in China. When Clement Cheung, director of marketing and applications at Xilinx Asia Pacific showed up to give a speech recently, he was worried not many people would

  • Moving Beyond Processors

    Wherever the enemy goes, let our troops go also. That quote, from Ulysses S. Grant, could be applied to modern computation as well as to strategies on the battlefield. In computing,

  • ASIC Prototyping Trends Extend FPGA Growth

    Changing market conditions and designer needs point to growth in hardware prototypes and some software models. One of the semiconductor industry bright

  • Achieving Business Goals with Wind River’s Multicore Software Solution

    Device makers need to find ways to compete through reducing cost, boosting performance, and bringing innovative and differentiating functionality to market on time.

Featured Products

  • Spartan-6 FPGA Evaluation and Development Kits

    Supported Xilinx FPGA/CPLDs: Spartan-6 LX, Spartan-6 LXT Xilinx and Avnet provide a comprehensive offering of Spartan®-6 FPGA evaluation and development kits that enable designers

  • Spartan-6 FPGA DSP Kit

    Supported Xilinx FPGA/CPLDs: Spartan-6 LX, Spartan-6 LXT The Xilinx® Spartan®-6 FPGA DSP Kit provides a complete development platform for implementing DSP algorithms on low-cost,

  • Spartan-6 FPGA Connectivity Kit

    Supported Xilinx FPGA/CPLDs: Spartan-6 LXT The Xilinx® Spartan®-6 FPGA Connectivity Kit is a complete, easy-to-use connectivity development and demonstration platform using

  • X5 Family PCI Express cPCI, PCI, or XMC

    Supported Xilinx FPGA/CPLDs: Virtex-5 SXT, Virtex-5 FXT The X5 family integrates high performance I/O with a Xilinx Virtex5 FPGA computing core. Available on a standard half-height,

  • Xilinx Transceiver Characterization Kits

    Supported Xilinx FPGA/CPLDs: Virtex-6 LXT Xilinx® Virtex®-6 FPGA ML623 and Spartan®-6 SP623 Transceiver Characterization Kits simplify the evaluation of Xilinx GTX and

  • ADM-XRC-5T2-ADV

    Supported Xilinx FPGA/CPLDs: Virtex-5 LXT, Virtex-5 SXT, Virtex-5 FXT The ADM-XRC-5T2-ADV is a high performance reconfigurable PMC/XMC (PCI Mezzanine Card) based on the Xilinx®

  • X3 Family PCI Express Cards cPCI, PCI or XMC

    Supported Xilinx FPGA/CPLDs: Spartan-3/3E/3A/3AN, Spartan- 3A DSP The X3 Family PCI Express cards are available on a standard half-height, single slot PCI Express plug-in card with

  • Virtex-6 FPGA ML605 Evaluation Kit

    Supported Xilinx FPGA/CPLDs: Virtex-6 LXT The Xilinx® Virtex®-6 FPGA ML605 Evaluation Kit provides a development environment for system designs that demand high performance,

  • Wireless IP Cores for Software Digital Radio Applications

    Supported Xilinx FPGA/CPLDs: Virtex-5 LXT, Virtex-5 SXT, Virtex-5 FXT The Wireless IP Cores for Software Digital Radio Application products offer a range of capabilities for both

  • IP Cores for FPGA based Applications

    Supported Xilinx FPGA/CPLDs: Virtex-6 LXT, Virtex-6 SXT, Virtex-6 HXT, Virtex-5 LX, Virtex-5 LXT, Virtex-5 SXT, Virtex-5 FXT, Virtex-5 TXT, Virtex-4 LX, Virtex-4 SX, Virtex-4 FX, Spartan-6