Agnisys makes design verification process extremely efficient!

Agnisys Inc. was established in 2007 in Massachusetts, USA, with a mission to deliver innovative automation to the semiconductor industry. The company offers affordable VLSI design and verification tools for SoCs, FPGAs and IPs that makes the design verification process extremely efficient. Agnisys’ IDesignSpec is an award winning engineering tool that allows an IP, chip

Xilinx targets growing ASIC and ASSP gaps

Xilinx Inc. has announced solutions for significant and growing gaps in ASIC and ASSP offerings targeting next-generation smarter networks and data centers. It has been acquiring and developing a SmartCORE IP portfolio and a critical mass of application specialists and services that leverage Xilinx’s All Programmable FPGAs, SoCs, and 3D ICs. To find out more

Xilinx Base Targeted Design Platform helps save months of development!

Last week, Xilinx discussed its Targeted Design Platforms, aimed at accelerating the development of system-on-chip (SoC) solutions with Xilinx Virtex-6 and Spartan-6 FPGAs. I was in conversation with Brent Przybus, Director of Product Marketing, as well as Neeraj Varma, Country Manager, Sales, for India and Australia and New Zealand. First up, the ISE Design Suite

Altera Cyclone III LS — first low power FPGAs with anti-tamper, design security, design separation

Altera has developed the industry’s first low power FPGAs with anti-tamper, design security, and design separation. Extending low-power leadership, these low power FPGAs offer double the resources for less than 0.25W! The image highlights how Altera is striving to extend its low power leadership with the Cyclone III LS devices.Source: Altera. The Cyclone III LS

Xilinx rolls out ISE Design Suite 11 for targeted design platforms!

Xilinx has now started shipping its ISE Design Suite 11.1!Source: Xilinx This is said to be the industry’s first FPGA design solution with fully interoperable domain-specific design flows and user-specific configurations for logic, digital signal processing (DSP), embedded processing, and system-level design. The ISE Design Suite 11.1 release is a major milestone in the delivery

FPGA Seek — an exclusive search site for FPGAs

Nearly 17 months ago, I’d discovered FPGA Central! This discovery has gone one better — introducing the FPGA Seek (www.fpgaseek.com)! According to the site, the FPGA Seek is a search engine optimized for field programmable gate array (FPGA) and CPLD’s related topics. FPGA Seek brings together the search engine technology from Google but with a

Altera on FPGAs outlook for 2009

Hardly any segment of the global semiconductor industry has escaped the economic financial crisis! Nevertheless, as the year draws to a close, several segments are planning strategies for tackling what could well be a difficult 2009! FPGAs are no exception! Jennifer Lo, Senior Marketing Manager, Altera Asia Pacific, agrees. Highlighting the impact, as per reports

Altera strategy to partner with Indian design services firms

Turning my attention to the programmable logic market, I took advantage of my recent meeting with Jordan Plofsky, Senior Vice President Market, Altera Corp., during the Altera SOPC conference. Programmable logic consumption in India has been estimated at between $20-$25 million in 2008, largely driven by strong growth in communications infrastructure and increased spending in

Top trends for global/Indian semiconductor industry in 2009

Right then, folks! Here are the much awaited top trends for global semiconductor industry for 2009! First, let’s start with microprocessors and microcontrollers. One of the most apt persons to answer this query was Jordan Plofsky, senior vice president, Market, Altera Corp., during his recent visit to India for the Altera SOPC Conference. Top trend

FPGAs have adopted Moore’s Law more closely!

How true! Field programmable gate arrays or FPGAs have become faster, denser and more complex over the years! Speaking at the recently held Altera SOPC conference, S. Janakiraman, President and CEO-R&D Services, MindTree, and former chairman, India Semiconductor Association (ISA), said these had found acceptance in a wide range of market segments. “FPGAs are everywhere,