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In its first venture into crowd funding the company Valent F(x), are seeking pledges for its LOGi FPGA development boards on Kickstarter that should make both the Beaglebone Black and Raspberry Pi communities happy. The Raspberry Pi version of the board is the LOGi-Pi while the BeagleBone Black is ...

Microsemi Corporation has released the low-cost Igloo2 FPGA Evaluation Kit in the PCI Express (PCIe) form factor. The full-feature kit enables designers to quickly verify the integration, low-power, security, instant-on and high-reliability features of Microsemi’s recently announced Igloo2 FPGAs.&#...

The PIF FPGA module from BugBlat is designed to mate with a Raspberry Pi. It is available in two versions, both built around a MachXO2 FPGA. The PIF-1200 version uses an XO2-1200 FPGA with 1,280 four-input lookup tables (LUTs), 64 kilobits of on-chip RAM, 64 kilobits of on-chip user flash memory and...

Lattice Semiconductor has announced the release of their MachX03 family of FPGAs. While not the fastest or largest FPGA on the market the emphasis is on affordability, low power consumption and small (2.5 x 2.5 mm) footprint. The chip uses a 40 nm process (compared to 65 nm of its ...

Samples of Freescale’s Vybrid F series VF3xx, VF5xx and VF6xx devices are now available. The Vybrid VF3xx family is a single-core (ARM Cortex®-A5) solution with 1.5 MB on-chip SRAM, dual XiP quad SPI memory interface, XGA display controller, dual high-speed USB with PHY, dual Ethernet and an L2 ...

Altera has launched its Cyclone V System-on-Chip (SoC) development kit. Developed in collaboration with ARM, the kit features the recently announced ARM Development Studio 5 (DS-5) Altera Edition Toolkit software, which boasts FPGA-adaptive debugging software that enables designers to view...

To make it easier for programmers who work with high-level languages to take advantage of the capabilities of programmable logic devices, Altera has launched a Software Development Kit (SDK) for the Open Computing Language (OpenCL) and supported third-party production boards. This ties in with ...

The Nuand bladeRF is a software defined radio (SDR) platform designed to enable a community of hobbyists and professionals to explore and experiment with all facets of RF communication. By providing source code, thorough documentation, easy to grasp tutorials and an open forum for discussions, it ...

Lattice Semiconductor has announced the iCE40 LP384 FPGA, the smallest member of its iCE40 family of ultra-low density FPGAs. The new device has room for 384 LUTs, consumes only 25 ?W static core power, comes in packages as small as 2.5 x 2.5 mm with a migration path to 2.0...

Open Computing Language or OpenCL is an open, royalty-free standard for cross-platform parallel programming of hardware accelerators, including CPUs, GPUs, and FPGAs. The portability of the OpenCL code enables users to migrate their designs to different FPGAs or SoC FPGAs as their application ...