Spaceflight system developers often commit to designing with new components only after they have received MIL-STD-883 Class B qualification and are in the process of meeting the Qualified Manufacturers List (QML) Class Q and Class V standards for spaceflight component reliability. Microchip Technology has now achieved the first qualification milestone with its RT PolarFire FPGA, enabling designers…
Xilinx launches accelerator card for HPC and big-data workloads
Xilinx, Inc., a provider in the adaptive-computing sector, recently introduced the Alveo U55C data-center accelerator card and a new standards-based, API-driven clustering solution for deploying FPGAs at massive scale. The Alveo U55C accelerator brings superior performance-per-watt to high-performance computing (HPC) and database workloads and easily scales through the Xilinx HPC clustering solution. Purpose-built for HPC and big…
Microchip offers new development tool for its Smart Embedded Vision initiative
Microchip Technology has announced the second development tool offering in its Smart Embedded Vision initiative for designers using its PolarFire RISC-V system-on-chip (SoC), field-programmable gate array (FPGA). The industry’s lowest-power SoC FPGA in its class, the PolarFire device is the only mid-range device of its kind that simultaneously supports dual 4K video processing and quad core…
Renesas unveils ultra-low-power ForgeFPGA Family with software
Renesas Electronics Corporation, a supplier of advanced semiconductor solutions, recently announced that it’s entering the field-programmable gate array (FPGA) market with a new line of low-cost, low-power devices. The ForgeFPGA Family will address the underserved market need for relatively small amounts of programmable logic that can be quickly and efficiently designed into cost-sensitive applications. The…
Microchip ensures FPGA security with new DesignShield development tool
Mission-critical and other high-assurance systems deployed worldwide are under rapidly evolving threats from cybercriminals who attempt to extract Critical Program Information (CPI) via the FPGAs that power them. Microchip Technology Inc. is extending its FPGA family’s security with the DesignShield development tool that further helps prevent this information from being extracted for malicious purposes. “As…