Month: September 2019

• Get free dev boards, win fame and prizes in the Arrow European FPGA contest Arrow Electronics has launched its Arrow European FPGA Developer Contest and you can get a free FPGA dev board just by entering. But you need to hurry. The Phase 1 application deadline is October 31, 2019. Here’s what you need to do: Click on the link above for details. Choose one of the three dev board that are part of...
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• Intel® Quartus® Prime Design Software version 19.3 Pro Edition update software with new features and additional device support now ready for download Intel® Quartus® Prime Design Software version 19.3 Pro Edition update software with support for new Intel® Agilex™ FPGAs is now available for download. In addition to Intel Agilex FPGAs, support has been added for several more devices in the Intel® Stratix® 10, Intel® Arria® 10, and Intel® Cyclone® 10 FPGA families and there is additional support for advanced security features...
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• Intel® Stratix® 10 DX FPGA is first (and only) FPGA on the PCI-SIG System Integrators List for PCIe 4.0 The P-tile incorporated in the newly announced Intel® Stratix® 10 DX FPGA is the first and currently the only FPGA component-level device listed in the PCI-SIG Integrators List for PCI Express 4.0 (PCIe Gen4). You’ll find it in the “Components: Endpoints” section. The P-tile implements the Intel Stratix 10 DX FPGA’s PCIe Gen4 x16 interface. (Note: the P-tile – and...
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• Intel® Stratix® 10 DX FPGAs Accelerate Intel® Xeon® Scalable Processors in Servers and High-End Embedded Systems Hardware acceleration for servers is becoming increasingly common because these accelerators can perform calculations faster and more efficiently than the same computations running in software. The recently announced, high-performance Intel® Stratix® 10 DX FPGA family has been designed specifically to provide FPGA-based hardware acceleration and memory expansion for next-generation server systems including servers based on selected Intel® Xeon® Scalable processors...
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• EXOSTIV Labs’ IP and probe module support real-time debugging for Intel® Stratix® 10, Intel® Arria® 10, and Intel® Cyclone® 10 FPGAs EXOSTIV Labs has developed a high-speed way to get insight into your FPGA-based design so that you can catch design bugs before they escape into production. Most developers use JTAG interfaces when debugging their designs. However, the serial JTAG interface was never intended to be used as a high-speed interface to monitor real-time systems. Even when embedding logic analysis in...
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• Expand Server Memory Capacity and Improve Server Performance with Intel® Optane™ DC Persistent Memory and Intel® Stratix® 10 FPGAs Data center workload capacity challenges can be handled by deploying additional Intel® Xeon® processors, by parallelizing workloads across multiple CPU cores, and by using hardware accelerators such as custom GPGPUs, ASICs, and FPGAs. Intel FPGA workload accelerators complement Intel Xeon processors in the data center to help meet varied performance needs across diverse workloads. FPGAs are often the accelerator of...
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• Talk to PCIe Gen4 x16, Intel® UPI, Intel® Optane™ DC Persistent Memory, and SDRAM with one Intel® Stratix® 10 DX FPGA Last week, Intel announced shipments of new Intel® Stratix® 10 DX FPGAs to several early access program customers including VMware. There are currently three announced members of the Intel Stratix 10 DX FPGA family. These new FPGAs are high-bandwidth interconnection machines with support for high-speed interface protocols including Intel® Ultra Path Interconnect (Intel® UPI) and PCIe Gen4 x16. In addition,...
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• CXL Consortium incorporates – Just ahead: high-speed, coherent interconnect for accelerators and memory based on PCIe 5.0 The Compute Express Link (CXL) Consortium announced its incorporation this month. The consortium’s founding members (Alibaba, Cisco, Dell EMC, Facebook, Google, Hewlett Packard Enterprise, Huawei, Intel Corporation and Microsoft) jointly made the announcement. CXL is a new high-speed CPU-to-Device and CPU-to-Memory interconnect designed to accelerate next-generation data center performance. It’s is an open, industry-standard interconnect that offers high-bandwidth, low-latency connectivity...
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• Silicom plans to use Intel® Agilex™ FPGAs to build smartNICs for datacenters and 5G applications Silicom has big plans for the initial shipments of Intel® Agilex™ FPGAs that it is receiving through the Intel early access program. The company plans to develop a high-end smartNIC (smart network interface card) using the FPGAs to complement its existing smartNIC Server Adapters based on Intel Arria® 10 FPGAs and Intel Stratix® 10 FPGAs. Combining these smartNICs based on...
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• Do you need help with challenging video designs? Attending IBC 2019 in Amsterdam? Check out the Omnitek booth Few designs are as challenging as those for video applications. If you’re facing such a design and need to out-source, check out the Omnitek booth (Hall 10 Stand A24) at IBC 2019 in Amsterdam (September 13 – 17) where you will find representatives from Omnitek SSE, an Intel FPGA IP and design services group based in Basingstoke, UK with years...
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