GateRocket Inc. has significantly bolstered its technical, marketing, and sales acumen with the addition of two savvy and experienced chip design industry veterans. Jim Hogan, well-known EDA entrepreneur, investor, and executive has joined the GateRocket Advisory board; and Jim Wagner, with extensive EDA sales experience, has been named GateRocket Director of Sales.
At the Embedded World conference, Actel Corporation unveiled SmartFusion, the world's first intelligent mixed signal FPGA. Available in production quantities, SmartFusion devices feature Actel's proven FPGA fabric, a complete microcontroller subsystem built around a hard ARM Cortex-M3 processor and programmable analog blocks on a flash process.
The company also announced the immediate availability of its development environment for the SmartFusion intelligent mixed signal FPGAs. The ecosystem includes the Libero Integrated Design Environment (IDE) v9.0 with Synplify Pro and Identify from Synopsys, ModelSim from Mentor Graphics, and SoftConsole v3.1, Keil and IAR Systems software IDEs, plus access to leading RTOS and middleware from Micrium.
GateRocket, Inc.announced the availability of the newest version of its RocketVision debugging software, further enhancing the company’s approach to reducing design time for high-end programmable devices from Altera and Xilinx.
RocketVision 5.0 introduces new capabilities that allow designers to select individual design blocks to run in their simulator or GateRocket's RocketDrive hardware verification system, the industry's only Device Native approach to debug and verification. The features enable engineers to find and fix bugs faster, and avoid unnecessary re-runs of time-consuming synthesis-to-place-and-route iterations, reducing overall design bring-up time.
CoWare, Inc. is rolling out a new release of its CoWare SPW products. The new SPW 2010.1 release advances the LTE (Long Term Evolution) Wireless Reference Library and adds a complete Xilinx implementation flow that includes direct source translation technology from C Data Flow (CDF) into RTL.
Altium has expanded its offering with the announcement of a new NanoBoard 3000 hosting the Altera Cyclone III FPGA. The new board continues to provide electronics designers with the same hardware, software, and ready-to-use, royalty-free IP of the NanoBoard 3000, but with the choice of Altera’s Cyclone III FPGA at its core.
Altera Corporation announced innovations that will be incorporated into upcoming 28-nm FPGAs. Embedded HardCopy Blocks, a new method for partial reconfiguration and embedded 28-Gbps transceivers will improve the density and I/O performance of next-generation Altera FPGAs.
The rapid growth of bandwidth-intensive applications such as high-definition (HD) video, cloud computing, online data storage and mobile video has created a challenge for both infrastructure and end-user equipment developers. How can they quickly increase system bandwidth while staying within strict power and cost budgets? Altera claims to have developed its latest innovations to solve these challenges.
Synfora, Inc., the premier provider of high level synthesis tools for integrated circuit and system designers of complex processing applications, has released version 9.04 of its PICO Extreme and PICO Extreme FPGA C synthesis tools with enhanced support for C++ language constructs and new support for additional FPGA devices.
Dynalith Systems and Impulse Accelerated Technologies today announced the successful integration of a new tool kit for engineers simulating and prototyping high performance computer systems.
Synfora announced a new version of its PICO Extreme FPGA C synthesis tool with support for the Xilinx Spartan-6 and Virtex-6 devices as well as seamless integration with the Xilinx Embedded Development Kit (EDK) tool suite. In addition, the company claims that the new version of PICO Extreme FPGA provides improved quality of results with area and throughput improvements of up to 15 percent.
The kit features hardware and software solutions that allow customers to prototype and test designs for Altera's Cyclone III LS FPGAs. Customers can take advantage of the redundancy and information security features of the Cyclone III LS FPGA for a number of military and industrial applications where security is paramount.