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AMD aims Kintex UltraScale+ Gen 2 FPGAs at AV markets

Caroline Hayes — Wed, 04 Feb 2026 07:30:09 +0000

AMD has introduced the Kintex UltraScale+ Gen 2 FPGA family with PCIe Gen4 to support 4K AV-over-IP operation for 4K/8K media operations. The XC2KU040P and XC2KU050P FPGAs are likely to ...

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NG-Ultra FPGA qualifies for new European ESCC 9030 space standard

Caroline Hayes — Fri, 30 Jan 2026 10:00:52 +0000

Fabless French FPGA company, NanoXplore has announced that its NG-Ultra FPGA, which is based on STMicroelectronics’ 28nm FD-SOI digital technology, is qualified for the ESCC 9030 for space missions. The ...

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Expect more of the same for 2026, says ecsn

Caroline Hayes — Fri, 28 Nov 2025 11:47:39 +0000

Last year, the ecsn (Electronic Components Supply Network), the body which represents authorised distributors in the UK and Eire, reported that its members were entering 2025 with “extreme caution”. Customer ...

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Altera Agilex 5 FPGA dev board

Steve Bush — Tue, 12 Aug 2025 15:55:29 +0000

Arrow Electronics is offering a starter kit development board for Altera Agilex 5 FPGAs. Called AXE5000, it is built around a A5EC008BM16AE6S, an IC with 85,196 logic elements and, for ...

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Ensilica develops PQC ASIC

David Manners — Tue, 22 Jul 2025 05:12:31 +0000

EnSilica, the mixed-signal ASIC specialist , has developed a combined hardware IP block supporting the full CRYSTALS post-quantum cryptography (PQC) suite, saving silicon area, power and cost. The licensable eSi-CRYSTALS ...

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Hardware Pioneers Video: Future-Proofing Industrial Embedded Electronics: Expert Solutions for Manufacturers

Alun Williams — Tue, 29 Apr 2025 15:22:55 +0000

At Hardware Pioneers Max 2025 we caught up with Dunstan Power, Director and Co-Founder of ByteSnap, as part of our promotional coverage for the event. He explains how industrial manufacturers ...

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Few-pin programmable logic devices have coding-free programming

Steve Bush — Thu, 10 Oct 2024 14:48:15 +0000

Texas Instruments has introduced six programmable logic devices with between 8 and 14 pins “with the ability to integrate up to 40 combinational and sequential logic and analogue functions into ...

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Digikey signs Sefra Labs

Caroline Hayes — Tue, 26 Sep 2023 15:01:44 +0000

Embedded systems, servers, I/O modules and sensors by Sfera Labs, are now available from DigiKey, following a distribution agreement between the two companies. The embedded systems and edge computing products ...

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FPGAs for automotive lidar and cameras

Steve Bush — Fri, 26 May 2023 09:28:57 +0000

AMD is aiming at automotive edge sensor fusion, for the likes of lidar, radar and 3D surround cameras, with a pair of FPGAs it has just started shipping. XA AU10P ...

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GPU has 1.3Gray/s ray-tracing for games on phones

Steve Bush — Wed, 11 Jan 2023 11:45:16 +0000

Imagination Technologies is aiming at phone-based gaming with scalable GPU intellectual property that can implement hardware ray-tracing. Called IMG DXT, and part of a planned ‘D-Series’ family, the GPUs “offers ...

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