The choices of RF CMOS devices from Peregrine Semiconductor (www.psemi.com) continues to grow as the company announces extensions to three families manufactured using UltraCMOS, a proprietary mixed-signal process variation of SOI (silicon on insulator) technology on a sapphire substrate. There are new 7bit UltraCMOS digital step attenuators (DSAs) to complement the 50Ω line of HaRP-enhanced serial-addressable control interfaces. The interfaces can control up to eight DSAs using a...
World’s fastest FPGA
The Speedster FPGA family is claimed to triple the performance of existing FPGAs, deliver up to 1.5GHz. The initial FPGA in the family from Achronix is the SPD60, where ‘early engagement’ customers, testing the device ahead of general availability, report its success in applications that require ASIC-like performance, namely, networking, telecommunications, test and measurement and encryption. The family of FPGAs use the company’s patented picoPIPE acceleration technology that speeds the...
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