RICHARDSON, TX. Newly released support for Microsemi FPGAs and SoCs on ASSET InterTech’s ScanWorks can decrease programming times for SPI flash memory devices to the point where inline programming on ...

FlashPro4 is hardware programmer supporting Actel's flash FPGAs: the IGLOO series and ProASIC3 series (including RT ProASIC3), SmartFusion and Actel Fusion families. It also supports FPGA embedded ...

Xilinx FPGAs require that a configuration bitstream is delivered at power-up. The SPI flash memories use a 4-wire synchronous serial data bus. The SPI flash ...

Higher mask cost and increasing minimum lot sizes, two economic trends of the semiconductor industry, are making FPGAs increasingly more cost effective compared to the competing ASIC solutions. As a ...

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., August 11, 2008 „o Extending its low-power leadership and the reliability benefits of its higher density flash-based FPGA technologies, Actel Corporation (NASDAQ: ACTL) today ...

It’s been a few years since the introduction of the first Open Source toolchain for FPGAs. You would think a free and Open way to program FPGAs would be a boon for hardware development, but so far ...

The substantial growth experienced by the portable point-of-sale (POS) market has combined with the falling cost of wireless networking to make portable POS terminals popular. However, these devices ...

Microsemi's IGLOO2 flash-based FPGAs incorporate differential power analysis countermeasure technology to prevent counterfeiting and hardware attacks. Figure 1. The IGLOO2 FPGA uses an instant-on, ...

SEGGER has announced the introduction of the Flasher BitStreamer, a new embedded software solution that expands the programming capabilities of its Flasher family of in-system programmers (ISPs).

Concern over the security of intellectual property is pushing many European firms to consider using flash-based FPGAs. That is according to EDA firm Altium, which has added support for Actel’s flash ...

Actel is developing radiation hardened flash-based FPGAs for use in space, and is targeting 2008 for commercial availability. Currently anti-fuse devices are the only FPGAs sufficiently radiation-hard ...