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Avnet and Cypress Release Upgraded Spartan-3A FPGA Evaluation Kit
Submitted by Ionela on Tue, 09/02/2008 - 17:06.
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The Avnet Electronics Marketing Americas business region of Avnet, Inc. and Cypress Semiconductor Corp. have upgraded the Spartan-3A Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) Evaluation Kit. The upgraded kit includes the addition of Cypress's CY3217 (MiniProg) Programmer to the Xilinx Spartan-3A FPGA Evaluation Kit, which enables touch sensing capability, USB connectivity and analog programming. The kits, which were released May 15, are being offered exclusively from Avnet for $39. |
ARM7-based MCU with FPGA Interface to Multi-layer AHB
Submitted by Ionela on Thu, 06/19/2008 - 14:44.
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Atmel Corporation announced the AT91CAP7E, the industry's first ARM7-based MCU with a direct FPGA interface. The AT91CAP7E is a standard microcontroller with an FPGA interface that makes the FPGA look and work like it is on the internal bus of the MCU. It provides customers with a two-chip, no-NRE, FPGA-plus ARM7 solution and offers an engineering-free migration path to a lower cost, and a lower power customizable MCU. |
Freescale and Altera partner to deliver world’s first soft ColdFire cores on FPGAs
Submitted by Ionela on Tue, 06/10/2008 - 06:59.
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To address the market need for highly custom semiconductor solutions, Freescale is introducing the first field programmable gate array (FPGA) implementation of the 32-bit V1 ColdFire core on the Altera Cyclone III family of FPGAs. IPextreme, a semiconductor intellectual property (IP) licensing specialist, will license the V1 core to Cyclone III customers free of charge through its online Core Store marketplace. |
