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| Xilinx Debuts Virtex-5 FXT, Expands SXT Platform |
By BDTI, 5/28/2008
 At the end of March, Xilinx announced availability of the first two members of its Virtex-5 FXT platform, the FX30T and FX70T. The Virtex-5 FXT platform is geared towards serial communications and embedded applications, and joins three other Virtex-5 platforms: the LX, which is intended for logic-intensive applications; the LXT, which targets logic and serial communications; and the SXT, which is intended for serial communications and DSP. (The “T” in the platform name indicates that the chips contain transceivers.) Target applications for the new FXT chips include video-over-IP, wireless base stations, and other high-performance applications.
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| Altera Jumps to 40 nm with Stratix IV |
By BDTI, 5/28/2008
 Not to be outdone by rival Xilinx, Altera has made a major announcement of its own. In mid-May, Altera unveiled its next-generation high-performance FPGA family, the Stratix IV, and announced that the family will be fabbed in a 40 nm TSMC process. Xilinx beat Altera to the 65 nm node with its Virtex-5 chips, but with this announcement, it appears that Altera will leapfrog Xilinx to 40 nm—assuming that Xilinx doesn’t come out with 40 nm chips before the Stratix IV is expected to start sampling, towards the end of this year.
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| Case Study: Where Does Your Processing Engine Fit In? |
By BDTI, 4/23/2008
Developing a new signal processing engine is expensive and risky, particularly for a small start-up or for an established company moving into an unfamiliar market. There are good reasons to take that risk: signal processing has become ubiquitous in a wide range of application areas, and offers the potential for high revenues. The flip side is that the market is already densely populated with all kinds of signal processing engines: single-core chips, multi-core chips, massively parallel processors, DSP-enhanced FPGAs, SoCs, etc. Depending on the specific target market, a new processor may find itself going head-to-head with some or all of these classes of competitor.
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| Catalytic Acquires Celoxica’s C-to-FPGA Tools |
By BDTI, 1/23/2008
 Catalytic recently acquired Celoxica's ESL business. Catalytic already offers a MATLAB-to-C tool, and with the acquisition of Celoxica's C-to-FPGA tool, the company is poised to deliver seamless MATLAB-to-FPGA translation.
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| Atmel Announces CAP Customizable Microcontrollers |
By BDTI, 7/18/2007
 In June Atmel announced the Customizable Atmel Processor (CAP), a family of customizable microcontrollers, and two initial devices. Customization in the CAP is achieved via a gate array block in which users can implement functions ranging from processor cores and peripherals to algorithm accelerators.
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| Xilinx Spartan gets DSP |
By BDTI, 4/25/2007
 In recent years, FPGA vendors have been aggressively pursuing high-performance signal processing applications. This month Xilinx broadened its target DSP markets by announcing a new lower-cost DSP-oriented FPGA family, Spartan-3A DSP.
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| Jeff Bier’s Impulse Response – Efficiency Comes in Many Flavors |
By Jeff Bier, 4/25/2007
It’s generally accepted that, for processing engines, there is a trade-off between efficiency and generality. The more a chip is geared towards a specific application, the more efficient it's likely to be (in terms of speed, energy consumption, and cost).
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| Stretch Announces Second-generation Software Configurable Processor |
By BDTI, 3/14/2007
 On March 5, Stretch, Inc. announced its second-generation software configurable processor family, the S6000, and two initial chips. The S6000, like the previous-generation S5000 family, features a RISC processor core with a reconfigurable compute fabric embedded within the processor datapath.
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