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In a recent press release NI have announced that its LabVIEW design software is now fully compatible with the latest LEGO Mindstorms EV3 microcontroller-based construction kit. The LabVIEW Module for LEGO MINDSTORMS is a free download available for both education and retail use.

Altera have announced they are the first FPGA producer to implement hardened IEEE 754 compliant, floating-point operators in their Arria 10 and Stratix 10 families of FPGAs. The IEEE 754 pipe comes as an addition to the 18b and 27b fixed point math pipes already available in the DSP. The 20 nm Arria 10 can also include a dual-core hard ARM Cortex-A9, serial transceivers up to 28.3 Gbit/s, backplane support up to 17.4G bit/s and support for DDR4 at 2.666 Gbit/s

Lattice Semiconductor has announced the introduction of the ECP5 family of FPGAs. Their target for this new family is for small-cell, microserver, broadband access, industrial video and other high-volume applications where the lowest-possible cost, lowest-possible-power and smallest-possible form-factor are crucial.

In the December 2013 edition we described the FPGA development board hardware. With this board it’s a simple job to interface the FPGA to real world devices and events. The extensive range of peripherals include sensors and an LC display. The next step is to program the FPGA and get them talking to one another.

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...