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• Lattice Semiconductor Delivers New Machine Learning and Sensor-to-Cloud Security Solutions for Intelligence at the Edge (Tuesday Jun. 27, 2017)
  Lattice today announced the availability of new reference designs based on its iCE40 UltraPlus FPGA devices to address emerging market requirements and to enable an expedited product development cycle.
  
  
• New Enhancements to Microsemi's Imaging/Video Solution Enable Customers to Leverage Company's Low Power and High Security FPGAs in MIPI CSI-2-Based Camera Systems (Tuesday Jun. 27, 2017)
  Microsemi Corporation today announced new additions to its imaging/video solution supporting the popular Mobile Industry Processor Interface (MIPI) camera serial interface (CSI-2).
  
  
• Microsemi Announces SoftConsole v5.1, the World's First Freely Available Windows-Hosted Eclipse Integrated Development Environment Supporting RISC-V Open Instruction Set Architecture (Thursday Jun. 15, 2017)
  Microsemi today announced the release of its SoftConsole version 5.1, the world's first available Windows-hosted Eclipse integrated development environment (IDE) for designs utilizing RISC-V open instruction set architectures (ISAs) such as RV32I.
  
  
• Lattice Semiconductor's ECP5 FPGA Enables Energy-Efficient Embedded Vision Systems at the Edge (Monday Jun. 05, 2017)
  Lattice today announced the implementation of its ECP5 FPGA into embedded vision applications for smart surveillance and automotive applications at the Edge.
  
  
• Microsemi and Intrinsic ID Collaboration Delivers SRAM-PUF in PolarFire FPGAs, Providing Advanced Security (Thursday Jun. 01, 2017)
  Microsemi and Intrinsic ID today announced Intrinsic ID's static random-access memory (SRAM) physical unclonable function (SRAM PUF) is included in Microsemi's new PolarFire™ field programmable gate arrays (FPGAs).
  
  
• Xilinx Announces Integration of 56G PAM4 Transceiver Technology into its Virtex UltraScale+ FPGAs (Wednesday May. 17, 2017)
  Xilinx today announced integration of 56G PAM4 transceiver technology into its industry-leading Virtex® UltraScale+™ FPGAs. Built upon proven 16nm FinFET+ FPGA fabric, these devices will expand the Virtex product line to drive the next wave of Ethernet deployment and provide seamless migration of existing systems to next-gen backplane, optics, and high performance interconnects.
  
  
• Xilinx and IBM First to Double Interconnect Performance for Accelerated Cloud Computing with New PCI Express Standard (Wednesday May. 17, 2017)
  Xilinx today announced an achievement in PCI Express® Gen4 capability. Together with IBM, the two companies are first to double interconnect performance between an accelerator and CPU through the use of PCI Express Gen4 compared to the existing widely-deployed PCI Express Gen3 standard.
  
  
• Xilinx Debuts Industry-First P4_16 to FPGA Compilation and Introduces New P4-NetFPGA Workflow for Networking Researchers at P4 Industry Events (Monday May. 15, 2017)
  Xilinx announced today it will participate in the 2017 P4 Developer Day and P4 Workshop, May 16 - 17 at Stanford University, debuting its P416 to FPGA compilation and introducing a new P4-NetFPGA workflow for networking researchers.
  
  
• Microsoft Outlines Hardware Architecture for Deep Learning on Intel FPGAs (Monday May. 15, 2017)
  Microsoft Azure CTO Mark Russinovich disclosed major advances in Microsoft’s hyperscale deployment of Intel® field programmable gate arrays (FPGAs).
  
  
• Xilinx Spartan-7 FPGAs Now in Production (Tuesday May. 09, 2017)
  Xilinx, Inc. (XLNX) today announced that its Spartan®-7 family of FPGAs is now available for order and shipping to standard lead times.
  
  
• Microsemi and Synopsys Extend 20-Year OEM Relationship and Collaborate on New PolarFire FPGAs to Deliver Customized Synthesis Support (Thursday May. 04, 2017)
  Microsemi and Synopsys today announced a multi-year extension of their OEM agreement to bring customized field programmable gate array (FPGA) synthesis tools to Microsemi's FPGA customers.
  
  
• Titan IC sets sail to secure the world's major cloud providers (Thursday Apr. 27, 2017)
  Titan IC is working to secure cloud computing using our hardware accelerated regular expression processor for pattern matching and string matching. Titan IC's Helios F1 is an FPGA regular expression (regex) processor hosted on an Amazon Web Services (AWS) F1 Amazon Machine Instance (AMI).
  
  
• Xilinx Delivers Broad Deployment of Dynamic Reconfiguration Technology (Thursday Apr. 20, 2017)
  Xilinx, Inc. today announced the 2017.1 release of the Vivado® Design Suite HLx Editions, with broad availability of Partial Reconfiguration technology to enable dynamic field updates and increased systems integration in a broad range of applications such as wired & wireless networking, test & measurement, aerospace & defense, automotive, and data centers.
  
  
• Xilinx Announces General Availability of Virtex UltraScale+ FPGAs in Amazon EC2 F1 Instances (Thursday Apr. 20, 2017)
  Xilinx, Inc. (XLNX) today announced that its high-performance Xilinx® Virtex® UltraScale+™ FPGAs are available in Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) F1 instances. This instance provides programmable hardware acceleration with FPGAs and enables users to optimize their compute resources for the unique requirements of their workloads.
  
  
• Microsemi Announces Libero SoC v11.8 Software Providing FPGA Designers Mixed Language Simulation and Best-in-Class Debugging Capabilities (Tuesday Apr. 11, 2017)
  Microsemi today announced the release of its latest version of Libero® system-on-chip (SoC) software, version 11.8, a comprehensive suite of field programmable gate array (FPGA) design tools.
  
  
• Xilinx Expands into Wide Range of Vision-Guided Machine Learning Applications with reVISION (Monday Mar. 13, 2017)
  At Embedded World, Xilinx, Inc. (NASDAQ:XLNX) today announced expansion into a wide range of vision guided machine learning applications with the Xilinx® reVISION™ stack
  
  
• Alibaba Collaborating with Intel on an FPGA-based Solution to Help Customers Accelerate Business Applications (Friday Mar. 10, 2017)
  Alibaba Cloud (Aliyun), has announced a pilot program with Intel for a cloud-based FPGA (field programmable gate array) acceleration service with the goal of enabling customers to have virtual access to powerful compute resources in the cloud to help them manage business, scientific and enterprise data application workloads more effectively.
  
  
• NEC and AIST Develop LSI with NanoBridge Technology Featuring High Radiation Tolerance for use in Space (Wednesday Mar. 08, 2017)
  NEC Corporation (NEC) and the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST) today announced the development of an NB-FPGA (Note 1) that incorporates NanoBridge metal atom migration-type switch technology utilizing TIA (Note 2), an open innovation hub operated by five institutes in Tsukuba and Tokyo.
  
  
• Xilinx Unveils Disruptive Integration and Architectural Breakthrough for 5G Wireless with RF-Class Analog Technology (Tuesday Feb. 21, 2017)
  Xilinx today announced a disruptive integration and architectural breakthrough for 5G wireless with the infusion of RF-class analog technology into its 16nm All Programmable MPSoCs.
  
  
• Lattice Semiconductor Expands CrossLink Programmable ASSP (pASSP) IP Solutions (Tuesday Feb. 21, 2017)
  Lattice Semiconductor today announced the expansion of its Lattice CrossLink™ programmable ASSP (pASSP) solutions to enable new video bridging capabilities with the release of three new CrossLink intellectual property (IP) and two new CrossLink demonstration platforms showcasing MIPI® DSI to LVDS and CMOS to MIPI CSI-2.
  
  
• Microsemi Unveils Industry's Lowest Power Cost-Optimized FPGA Product Family for Access Networks, Wireless Infrastructure, Defense and Industry 4.0 Markets (Tuesday Feb. 14, 2017)
  New PolarFire FPGAs Deliver 500K Logic Elements, 12.7G Transceivers at Up to 50 Percent Lower Power Than Competing Mid-Range FPGAs
  
  
• Intel Introduces Versatile New FPGA for Industrial and Automotive Markets (Monday Feb. 13, 2017)
  To serve the growing number of Internet of Things (IoT) applications, Intel Corporation today announced the Intel® Cyclone® 10 family of field programmable gate arrays (FPGAs). Designed to deliver fast and power-efficient processing, they have a variety of uses, including for automotive, industrial automation, pro audio visual and vision systems.
  
  
• Crestron Moves to Intel FPGAs to Improve Video Quality, Connections (Wednesday Feb. 08, 2017)
  Crestron today announced that it will use Intel Arria® 10 FPGAs in a new digital media AV distribution system that supports 4K-quality video conferencing and a seamless connection for users, no matter what devices they use.
  
  
• ZTE Wireless Institute Achieves Performance Breakthrough for Deep Learning with Intel FPGAs (Wednesday Jan. 25, 2017)
  Intel and ZTE, a leading technology telecommunications equipment and systems company, have worked together to reach a new benchmark in deep learning and convolutional neural networks (CNN).
  
  
• Xilinx FPGAs to be Deployed in New Amazon EC2 F1 Instances - Accelerating Genomics, Financial Analytics, Video Processing, Big Data, Security, and Machine Learning Inference (Wednesday Dec. 07, 2016)
  Xilinx, Inc. (NASDAQ:XLNX) today announced that Amazon Web Services (AWS) is deploying Xilinx 16nm UltraScale+™ Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs) in the new Amazon Elastic Cloud Compute (Amazon EC2) F1 instance type, accelerating genomics, financial analytics, video processing, big data, security, and machine learning inference workloads.
  
  
• Xilinx Reconfigurable Acceleration Stack Delivers Fastest Path to 2-6x Compute Efficiency over FPGA Competition (Monday Nov. 14, 2016)
  Xilinx today at SC16 unveiled a new suite of technology designed to enable the world's largest cloud service providers to rapidly develop and deploy acceleration platforms.
  
  
• Xilinx Unveils Details for New 16nm Virtex UltraScale+ FPGAs with High Bandwidth Memory and CCIX Technology (Wednesday Nov. 09, 2016)
  Xilinx today unveiled details for new 16nm Virtex® UltraScale+™ FPGAs with HBM and CCIX technology. Containing the highest memory bandwidth available, these HBM-enabled FPGAs offer 20X higher memory bandwidth relative to a DDR4 DIMM and 4X less power per bit versus competing memory technologies.
  
  
• Microsemi Achieves MIL-STD-883 Class B Qualification for its RTG4 High-Speed Radiation-Tolerant FPGAs (Wednesday Nov. 02, 2016)
  Microsemi today announced its RTG4™ high-speed signal processing radiation-tolerant FPGAs have achieved MIL-STD-883 Class B qualification, meeting the industry's standard for qualifying microelectronic devices suitable for use within aerospace and defense electronic systems.
  
  
• Lattice Semiconductor Releases Optimized Connectivity Solutions Based on ECP5-5G FPGAs for Communications and Industrial Markets (Monday Oct. 31, 2016)
  Lattice today announced the availability of new ECP5-5G™-based IP and solutions, part of the Company’s ECP5 family of low power, small form factor connectivity FPGAs for industrial and communications applications.
  
  
• PRO DESIGN Expands FPGA Prototyping Portfolio with High-Speed proFPGA Virtex UltraScale based FPGA Modules (Tuesday Oct. 25, 2016)
  PRO DESIGN, veteran in the EMS and EDA industry, today announced the availability of five new high-speed FPGA modules for its successful and innovative proFPGA product family of FPGA based prototyping solutions.