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a techfocus media publication :: April 28, 2009 :: volume XXIII, no. 04











FROM THE EDITOR



This week, we take a look at Xilinx's new ISE Design Suite 11.1. Each year, about this time it seems, Xilinx drops another major release of their design tool software. This time, however, they've done a lot more than the usual 20% here and 2X there incremental enhancements we've come to expect. They've completely (and none too soon) overhauled the entire packaging of the product into sensible, consumable, useful bundles. Our latest feature has the details.

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LATEST NEWS



April 28, 2009



Apache’s RedHawk Power Integrity Solution Adopted by AppliedMicro for their SoC and Mixed-Signal Designs



National Instruments Introduces PXI Express Reconfigurable IF Transceiver for Software-Defined RF Test and Prototyping



April 27, 2009



Xilinx Virtex-6 and Spartan-6 FPGA Families Win Low Power Design Award from Chinese Institute of Electronics



New Lattice "Processor Power Manager Reduces The Cost Of Microprocessor Support"



Xilinx Drives Evolution of FPGA Design with Domain-specific Methodology for Targeted Design Platforms



Actel and Avnet Offer Comprehensive Solution for Display Applications



April 23, 2009



Lockheed Martin Uses MathWorks Tools to Develop Configurable, Space-Qualified Digital Channelizer



April 22, 2009



Xilinx Enables China's First HDTV I/O Card from Dayang










CURRENT FEATURE ARTICLES



Chef's Menu
Xilinx 11.1 Offers the Tools You Actually Need
(Kevin Morris)
Altium Goes for the Masses
Breaking the EDA Mold... Again
(Kevin Morris)
Preaching to the Choir
Proselytizing Programmable Logic
(Kevin Morris)
Incremental Synthesis: Achieving Shorter Design
Cycles Without Quality Trade-Offs
by Darren Zacher, Mentor Graphics
Kicking a Dead Horse
FPGAs Going the Distance Against ASIC
(Kevin Morris)
Building ‘Image Format Conversion’ Designs for Broadcast Systems
by Suhel Dhanani & Girish Malipeddi, Altera Corporation
Retro Revolution
The New Vintage FPGAs (Kevin Morris)



JOURNAL WEBCASTS

NEW! FPGAs Verifying FPGAs. Advanced FPGAs now require a more rigorous verification approach or designers risk spending months in the lab trying to debug their designs in-system. Learn how Device Native® verification integrates seamlessly with your existing FPGA design tools and delivers significant productivity improvements for verification and debug. (GateRocket)

CHALK TALK Confirma™: The Next Era Of Prototyping. Struggling with FPGA prototyping boards? Join Amelia Dalton as she talks with Juergen Jaeger of Synopsys about the Next Era of Rapid Prototyping. (Synopsys)

CHALK TALK From Desktop to Target: What You Need From A Development Suite. Is embedded software development and debug a challenge for your team? Join Amelia Dalton as she chats with Jit Sivalogan of Mentor Graphics about setting up a productive environment for embedded development. (Mentor Graphics)

CHALK TALK Simplified Verification of DSP Algorithms in Hardware. Moving algorithms from MATLAB to FPGAs? Join Amelia Dalton as she explores options for verifying DSP designs implemented in FPGAs with Tim Vanevenhoven from Xilinx. (Xilinx)

CHALK TALK Using Embedded Hypervisors in Mobile Devices. Join Amelia Dalton as she explores the use of embedded hypervisors to create safe and secure software for mobile devices with Rob McCammon of Open Kernel Labs. (Open Kernel Labs)

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Chef's Menu
Xilinx 11.1 Offers the Tools You Actually Need
(Kevin Morris)

For many of us, ordering the exact FPGA tools that we need to do our job has been frustrating at times:

"We'd like to start with some spring rolls, please."

"Yes sir, and who are they for?"

"We'd like to share them. They come six to an order, right?"

"Yes sir, they do, but you may not share.  Each person has to order their own."

"Ah, well, (winks) I'll have the six spring rolls, then.  And SHE would like the Kung Pao Chicken."

"Yes sir, and would you like the chicken with that?  It's $6 extra." [more]






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