Industry News (2011/10/25)

Xilinx Begins Shipping the stacked Silicon FPGA to Replace ASIC

Published:2011/10/25 22:41:00 Author:Li xiao na

Founded in Silicon Valley in 1984, the Xilinx is a leading supplier of programmable logic devices. It is specialized in inventing the field programmable gate array (FPGA). It is also the first semiconductor company with a fabless manufacturing model. It is headquartered in San Jose, California, U.S.A.; Dublin, Ireland; Singapore; and Tokyo, Japan. The stacked silicon FPGA has begun to be shipped by Xilinx，w...   (View)

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Xilinx announced the shipment of the World’s Highest Capacity FPGA

Published:2011/10/25 22:00:00 Author:Phyllis

Xilinx has announced the first shipments of its Virtex-7 2000T Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA). The Virtex-7 2000T is currently the world’s highest-capacity programmable logic device, which contains 6.8 billion transistors and provides users with 2 million logic cells equivalent to 20 million ASIC gates. This high capacity makes t...   (View)

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The Popularization of ECDIS

Published:2011/10/25 21:10:00 Author:Li xiao na

For the drivers, Satnavs are the first choice. When it comes to the navigators, they have many choices, such as the GPS, paper maps, radar and ordinary radio communications. Recently, the Electronic Chart Display and Information System (ECDIS) becomes very popular among the devices. It is a kind of Google Maps for ships. The GPS, r...   (View)

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$25 Computer Board Introduced

Published:2011/10/25 2:42:00 Author:Amy

At this week’s ARM TechCon event, it rolls out $25 computer board and it contains everything you might need. The Raspberry Pi has been developed by a UK-based foundation that aims to promote the study of computer science and related topics, especially at school level, and to put the fun back into learning computing. The ultra-low-cost computer targets in the areas of charity and school in teaching...   (View)

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Texas Instruments Releases Two 20V Step-down Voltage Regulators

Published:2011/10/25 2:29:00 Author:Li xiao na

Texas Instruments is the world’s leading company to deign and manufacture the analog and digital semiconductor IC. Apart from the analog technologies, digital signal processing (DSP) and microcontroller (MUC) semiconductors, TI is also specialized in designing and producing semiconductor solutions for analog and digital embedded a...   (View)

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TSMC’s 28-nm Process Technology in Volume Production

Published:2011/10/25 1:27:00 Author:Phyllis

Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company has confirmed that its 28-nm process technology is currently in volume production and production wafers have already been shipped to customers. TSMC’s 28-nm line-up includes 28-nm high performance (28HP), 28-nm high performance low power (28HPL), 28-nm low power (28LP), and 28-nm high performance mobile computing (28HPM), which would join the volume production at t...   (View)

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