Using FPGAs to avoid microprocessor obsolescence

06-March-2008 - Digital Core Design and Lattice Semiconductor wrote a joint article regarding the FPGA usage as a design platform to avoid microprocessor and microcontroller obsolescence. It examines available options to designers and proposes ready to use solution. Please follow this link to read this article Using FPGAs to avoid microprocessor obsolescence.




About Digital Core Design


DCD is a private Intellectual Property (IP) Core provider and System-on-Chip (SoC) design house, an expert in IP cores architecture improvements. DCD sells its products and services directly and through its global distribution network. DCD offers VHDL and Verilog high performance and synthesizable IP cores for a speed optimized 8-, 16- and 32-bit processors, peripherals, serial interfaces, floating point arithmetic units and coprocessors. The functionality of IP solutions offered by DCD were up to date appreciated by over 200 licenses sold to over 150 customers worldwide, such as: INTEL, SIEMENS, PHILIPS, TOYOTA, MAXIM, RAYTHEON, OSRAM, GENERAL ELECTRIC, FARADAY, SAGEM, FLEXTRONICS and GOODRICH. DCD also became a member of first-class branch partner programs as: AMPP of ALTERA, AllianceCORE of XILINX, ispLeverCORE Connection of LATTICE and IP Catalyst of SYNOPSYS. For more information, please visit: www.dcd.pl.



About Lattice Semiconductor


Lattice Semiconductor Corporation designs, develops and markets the broadest range of Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGA), Field Programmable System Chips (FPSC) and high-performance ISPTM Programmable Logic Devices (PLD), including Complex Programmable Logic Devices (CPLD), Programmable Analog Chips (PACTM), and Programmable Digital Interconnect (GDXTM). Lattice also offers industry leading SERDES products. Lattice is "Bringing the Best Together" with comprehensive solutions for today's system designs, delivering innovative programmable silicon products that embody leading-edge system expertise. Lattice products are sold worldwide through an extensive network of independent sales representatives and distributors, primarily to OEM customers in the fields of communications, computing, computer peripherals, instrumentation, industrial controls and military systems. Company headquarters are located at 5555 NE Moore Court, Hillsboro, Oregon 97124-6421, USA; telephone 503-268-8000, fax 503-268-8037. For more information about Lattice Semiconductor Corporation, visit http://www.latticesemi.com.