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New package for Lattice MachXO cuts cost, area
Lattice Semiconductor announced the immediate availability of a new 0.8-mm pitch 256-pin chip-array BGA (caBGA256) package for its MachXO PLD family.

TI announces MSP430 MCUs for e-metering applications
In support of three-phase e-metering applications, Texas Instruments Incorporated has unveiled the ultra-low power MSP430F471xx microcontroller (MCU) series. The F471xx system-on-chip metering solution offers simultaneous sampling of voltage and current as well as tamper-detection for efficient and reliable energy measurement.

Forte beefs up high-level synthesis tool
High-level synthesis EDA vendor Forte Design Systems has commenced volume shipments of the latest version of its Cynthesizer SystemC synthesis software for hardware and electronic system level design.

Altera rolls low power, anti-tamper FPGAs
Altera this week is rolling out a new product family, Cyclone III LS, billed by the company as the industry's first low power FPGAs with anti-tamper, design-security and design-separation features.

Mentor adds support for control logic to Catapult C
EDA vendor Mentor Graphics announced extensions to its Catapult C Synthesis tool to support full-chip high-level synthesis, a move billed by company executives as the most significant enhancements to Catapult C since the tool was introduced in 2004.

Xilinx releases eval kits for Virtex-6, Spartan-6
Xilinx delivered on the next phase of the targeted design platform concept it announced earlier this year, rolling out evaluation kits for its Virtex-6 and Spartan-6 field programmable gate arrays.

XMOS moves processors to 65-nm, drops price
Event-driven processor startup XMOS Semiconductor Ltd. (Bristol, England) has launched a second family of products by migrating designs to 65-nm process technology from Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. Ltd. As a result the company is taking the price for 10,000 units below $5.

Actel announces improvements to RTAX FGPAs
Actel announced improvements in performance and usability of its radiation-tolerant RTAX-S and RTAX-SL space-flight FPGAs, including reduced power consumption and faster speeds.

Maxim: Gamma correction IC has 16 programmable outputs
The MAX9669 is a low-cost, 16-channel, gamma-correction reference system with integrated nonvolatile (NV) memory.

Freescale ColdFire processor cores available for eASIC's Nextreme NEW ASICs
Fabless ASIC vendor eASIC announced the immediate availability of Freescale's 32-bit V1 and V2 ColdFire processor cores for eASIC's Nextreme NEW ASICs.

SiliconBlue launches 'turbo' iCE65 mobile FPGAs
FPGA startup SiliconBlue Technologies announced the availability of a high-speed "turbo" option for its iCE65 mobileFPGA family.

Cypress PSoCs claim superior analog, digital performance
Cypress Semiconductor introduced two new PSoC programmable system-on-chips with enhanced analog and digital performance.

Lattice releases Service Pack 2 for ispLever 7.2 design tool suite
Lattice Semiconductor announced the availability of Service Pack 2 for Version 7.2 of the company's ispLever FPGA design tool suite, the flagship design environment for the latest Lattice products.

ARM validates Cortex-A9 MPCore with eASIC device
Fabless ASIC house eASIC said ARM has successfully validated its next-generation Cortex-A9 MPCore multicore processor using eASIC's Nextreme NEW ASICs.

Low power TI DSPs extend battery life
The TMS320VC5505 and TMS320VC5504 digital signal processors (DSPs) from Texas Instruments offer the best combination of standby and active power, up to 320 KB of on-chip memory and multiple integrated peripherals that reduce system cost by more than 20 percent.

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Programmable Logic DesignLine's Product section covers the latest hardware, software, and tools impacting the design and implementation of FPGAs and CPLDs. Products covered in this section include new FPGAs/CPLDs, embedded processor cores, embedded softare/tools, DSP cores, DSP software/tools, FPGA synthesis tools, EDA tools, intellectual property (IP), and more.
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