Wind River recently announced the Wind River Linux support for Altera’s Nios II embedded processor. Commenting on the Nios II processor adoptiion, Mikeson Wang, Product Marketing Manager, Asia Pacific, Altera Corp., in Hong Kong, highlighted that it has over 20,000 licensees worldwide, and is used by each one of the top 20 OEMs. The NiosContinue reading “Altera Nios II processor gets Wind River Linux support”
Tag Archives: FPGA
Programmable imperative: Changing semicon landscape!
This post is based on a presentation recently made by Amit Dhir, Senior Director, Business Operations, Xilinx, prior to the launch of the Xilinx Virtex-6 and Spartan-6 FPGA families. Xilinx was very kind to share this with me, and I need to thank him and Neeraj Varma, Country Manager – Sales (India/ANZ) for Xilinx. Xilinx’sContinue reading “Programmable imperative: Changing semicon landscape!”
Reviewing global/Indian semicon industry in 2008 — top posts
Greetings, dear readers and friends, in the new year. May you all have all the success and prosperity in 2009! An eventful year in semiconductors has passed by us. For me, personally, it has been a tremendous 2008, ending with Electronics Weekly of UK selecting my blog (Pradeep Chakraborty’s Blog) as the world’s best inContinue reading “Reviewing global/Indian semicon industry in 2008 — top posts”
Xilinx on microprocessor trends, solar/PV
This semicon blog will basically examine the key trends in microprocessors, as well as whether companies such as Xilinx — a key player in FPGAs — has any kind of role to play in the solar/PV domain. For the record, this is the concluding part of the discussion with Vincent Ratford, Senior Vice President, SolutionsContinue reading “Xilinx on microprocessor trends, solar/PV”
Introducing FPGA Central!
All of those related to the FPGA and VLSI segments, there’s reason to rejoice. The world’s first dedicated portal on FPGAs is here! FPGA Central is said to be central place to find complete info about FPGA vendors, products, IPs, etc. Field programmable gate array, aka, FPGAs is a semiconductor device containing programmable logic componentsContinue reading “Introducing FPGA Central!”
Case for low-cost FPGAs
It is said that there is an increased adoption of programmable logic in more applications. And that, development costs of alternative technologies such as ASIC and ASSP continue to rise. Does this make a case for low-cost FPGAs? Altera seems to believe in this. According to the company, when Altera created the low-cost FPGA marketContinue reading “Case for low-cost FPGAs”
Pradeep's Point! 