Global Unichip, TSMC’s design arm, has made a remote management controller ASIC for server and desktop virtualization by adopting the first DDR3/4 PHY targeting TSMC’s 40LP process technology.
Programmable Logic and Asic
Spansion DC-to-DC power management IC supplies three power channels
Spansion is sampling its S6AP412A series of multi-channel DC-to-DC power management ICs (PMICs) and expects to have production volumes available in September starting at $3.60 in volumes of 1,500 units.
Global Unichip delivers ASIC with 2GHz DDR2/3 interface on 40nm LP process
Global Unichip, TSMC’s design arm, is manufacturing a consumer electronic applications processor ASIC with a DDR2/3 interface delivering 2.0GHz Mbps from its 40nm low power (LP) process.
FPGAs can clean up video picture noise
Using High-Level Synthesis, software-based algorithms that have data-dependent execution time can be easily accelerated in hardware, with deterministic results, writes Daniele Bagni Video is rapidly becoming more significant in embedded systems, where the information gathered can be analysed, recorded or otherwise used for real-time control. As a result, the demand for higher quality video content is also rising. However, image ...
How to make slow software run quicker
Have you ever written some software that, despite your best coding efforts, didn’t run as fast as desired? I have, writes David C. Black, Senior Member of Technical Staff at Doulos. Have you thought, “If only there were an easy way to put some of the code into multiple custom processors or custom hardware that wasn’t so expensive”? After all, your ...
Reconfiguring an FPGA for space travel
It is possible to reconfigure radiation-hardened Xilinx FPGAs with the reliability required for space applications, writes a team of developers from Germany-based Fraunhofer IIS RF and microwave design department In 2017 the experimental Heinrich Hertz communications satellite (H2Sat) commissioned by the German Federal Ministry of Economics and Technology will be launched into space, to support research into communications technologies operating ...
Mixed-signal asics are good even for smaller volume products
Traditionally, asic developments are thought to be the domain of high volume applications. Whilst these designs grab the headlines there are many designs that are successfully undertaken for smaller volume product markets. An example of this is the mixed signal asic for industrial controllers. These controllers cover many industries and come in many forms. The basic premise, though, is for ...
Xilinx launches 20nm device with 50 million gates
Xilinx has announced its largest FPGA, a 4.4 million logic cell device. The Virtex UltraScale VU440 is a 20nm device. It delivers 50 million equivalent Asic gates for next generation production and prototyping applications. It has the bandwidth for single chip implementations of 400G MuxSAR, 400G Transponder and 400G MAC-to Interlaken bridge applications. The UltraScale architecture is designed to provide up ...
Lattice targets FPGAs at heterogenous cellular networks
Lattice Semiconductor is offering an FPGA-based platform for Heterogeneous Networks (HetNet) for the roll-out of cellular neworks incorporating a variety of basestation technologies including small cells, low-power remote radio heads, distributed antenna systems. According to Lattice, mobile service providers are deploying a range of wireless equipment in both indoor and outdoor environments including office buildings, public facilities and underground areas to support the explosive growth in ...
Xilinx 3D FPGA in production
Xilinx and TSMC have announced production release of the Virtex-7 HT family, claimed to be industry’s first heterogeneous 3D ICs in production. “All Xilinx 28nm 3D IC families are now in volume production. These 28nm devices were developed on TSMC’s chip-on-wafer-on-substrate (CoWoS) 3D IC process,” said Xilinx. Xilinx is sticking with TSMC for its next generations. We “are now positioned ...
