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Vendors	Products	Category	Demos
Actel Technologies	FPGA	FPGA and CPLD
	CPLD

Field programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) offer many benefits when custom logic is required. FPGAs' on-site programmability allows you to move from concept to a working part in a very short time. There are no expensive nonrecurring engineering charges, and FPGAs allow you to make design changes at any time, even after you've released your product to market. FPGAs are only half the picture, though; the development system you use to design them is the other half. The Designer Series Development System meets all of these requirements. Its graphical Design Flow Manager clearly depicts and guides you through the Actel FPGA design process. You don't have to be an expert to begin designing Actel FPGAs with Designer Series. Design Flow Manager queries you to supply any missing information needed to proceed from one step to the next. It also blends seamlessly into your design environment, and it works closely with EDA software from companies such as Aldec, Cadence, Data I/O, Intergraph, Mentor Graphics, MINC, Synopsys, Synplicity, and Viewlogic. Design Flow Manager supports both schematic and high-level design methodologies, or a combination of the two.

Vendors	Products	Category	Demos
Altera Corp.	FPGA	FPGA and CPLD
	CPLD

Altera has a solution for every programmable logic design requirement. From prototyping or replacing gate arrays to integrating PALs/GALs/22V10s, Altera has the density, performance, features, and development tools to address all design needs. Altera offers six families of programmable logic devices (PLDs): FLEX 10K, FLEX 8000, MAX 9000, MAX 7000, MAX 5000, and Classic. With densities ranging from 300 up to 250,000 usable gates, Altera has the answer for design applications from address decoders to entire systems-on-a-chip. Altera provides the fastest high-density programmable logic devices available, with in-system speeds of over 175 MHz and pin-to-pin delays as fast as 5 ns. In addition, Altera devices offer advanced system-level features such as embedded array blocks (EABs) and in-system programmability (ISP). Altera devices are available in more than 30 unique packages, including the innovative thin quad flat pack (TQFP) and the space-saving ball-grid array (BGA) packages. All Altera devices use CMOS process technology, which provides lower power dissipation and greater reliability than bipolar technology. Altera utilizes the most advanced processes as soon as these technologies become viable and support reliable manufacturing. This process migration reduces manufacturing costs, enhances performance, and produces faster, more cost-effective devices. In addition to a broad range of devices, Altera offers powerful development tools to complete your design solution. Altera's MAX+PLUS II software provides an integrated, easy-to-use development tool that supports all Altera device families. MAX+PLUS II is compatible with industry-standard EDA tools and provides direct VHDL, Verilog HDL, and EDIF interfaces. Altera devices offer MultiVolt I/O operation, allowing easy interfacing between 5.0-V and 3.3-V hybrid systems. The device core runs at 5.0 V for maximum performance, while the I/O pins can operate at either 5.0 V or 3.3 V.

Vendors	Products	Category	Platforms	Demos
Aptix	System Explorer MP3 A	Field-Programmable Interconnect (FPIC)	Sun SPARC, HP-700, PC-486, PC-Pentium
	MP3 Databook
	MP4 Overview

Aptix provides rapid prototyping solutions, enabling real-time verification and debug of software and hardware for complex systems. Aptix's products may utilize DSPs, RAM/ROM, microcontroller/processors, FPGAs, ASSPs, bonded-out ASIC cores, and the accompanying software to emulate a complete system. Aptix was founded in 1989 by Dr. Amr Mohsen to develop, manufacture and market field programmable components (FPICs) and circuit boards (FPCBs). This award winning technology - Electronic Products 'Product of the Year'; EDN 'Innovation Grand Winner'; and Milton S. Kiver Award - became the fundamental building blocks for a focused rapid prototyping platform to serve the system emulation requirements of today's electronic designs. Aptix's rapid prototyping solutions, the Explorer Series, enhance the electronic designer's ability to create higher quality products in less time, thereby addressing the critical competitive issues of time to market, productivity, and reliability.

Vendors	Products	Category	Demos
Atmel	Application Specific Standard Products	PLD/CPLD, FPGA
	AVR RISC
	Cell-based ASICs
	DSP Cores
	Digital Gate Arrays/Embedded Arrays
	EPROM
	Flash Memory/Flash Card/DataFlash
	Flash Microcontroller
	FPGAs (Field Programmable Gate Array)
	FPGA Configuration Memory
	Parallel EEPROM
	PCMCIA Cards and Components
	Programmable Logic Device (SPLDs & CPLDs)
	Secure Memory and Smart Card ICs
	Serial EEPROM
	Standard Logic

Atmel designs, develops, manufactures and markets on a world-wide basis, semiconductors including Flash Memory, Parallel and Serial EEPROMs, Programmable Logic, as well as EPROMs, Microcontrollers, FPGAs and application-specific devices.

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Cypress Semiconductor is a leading supplier of high-performance digital integrated circuits. We offer a wide range of ICs including PLDs (programmable logic devices); static RAMs (random access memories); specialty memories (dual-ports and FIFOs); nonvolatile, programmable read-only memories (EPROMs and PROMs); PC chipsets, Universal Serial Bus (USB) microcontrollers, multichip modules, and frequency synthesizers/timing generators; FCT-T logic; VMEbus products; and data communications products.

Vendors	Products	Category	Demos
DynaChip	System Programming Approaching 200 MHz	ECL FPGAs
	1,000 to 10,000 Usable Gates
	ECL, PECL and GTL Interface Levels
	High-Speed I/O Registers with 900ps Setup and 1.8ns Clock-to-out Performance
	SRAM-based Programming
	Fully Automatic Implementation using Dyna ToolTM

DynaChip brings to market FFPGA devices at unprecedented performance levels. In order to achieve these speeds, DynaChip has focused its resources on routing structures and programmable interconnect technology. DynaChip developed the industry's first active programmable interconnect element, called an Active Repeater^TM. DynaChip's Active Repeater enables superior performance for programmable logic devices. Dyna Tool^TM is DynaChip's user friendly FPGA design software. DynaTool is an open system with interfaces to industry standard VHDL and Verilog based designs.DynaTool accepts a VHDL or Verilog netlist as input which is then mapped, placed and routed on the selected DynaChip device. When place and route is completed, DynaTool returns back annotated netlists in either VHDL, Verilog or delay (SDF) information in industry standard formats. As an open system, DynaTool allows designers the efficiency of using industry standard EDA tools for schematic or HDL design. DynaTool is available on SUN or PC Win95 or NT platforms.

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GateField is the developer of the revolutionary, patented flash-based reprogrammable ASIC technology and architecture upon which its high-capacity GF100KTMTM, GF200FTMTM, and GF250FTM ProASIC products are built. Closely coupled with these products are the ASICmasterTM software, a powerful automated place and route EDA design tool optimized for top-down, HDL design and methodology; and ASICmakerTM, the desk-top device programmer. In addition, GateField has a design services group that helps facilitate customer engineering tasks such as verification, rapid prototyping and design conversions.

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ICT Incorporated designs, manufactures and markets Programmable Logic Devices (PLDs). ICT's products are used by a variety of applications including telecommunications, industrial, medical and consumer electronics. Programmable logic devices enable designers to easily customize the circuit for their application reducing time to market, optimizing function and performance and reducing inventory costs. ICT markets a range of Programmable Electrically Erasable Logic (PEEL™) products fabricated in ICT's proprietary 0.8 micron CMOS EEPROM technology. PEEL™ products offer the most flexible PLD architectures for lower pin-count applications through 44 pins. ICT makes it easy for engineers to design with their PLD products by providing high complexity, performance and price, along with ICT's powerful and easy-to-use PLACE development tools.

I-Cube designs and distributes several families of CMOS integrated circuits targeted at a range of high speed switching applications. Each of these devices uses enhanced crossbar switching technology to move large volumes of data. I-Cube's Product can be classified into two main catagories:

• Programmable Switching & Interconnect Devices (PSID^TM): A new class of semiconductor devices designed for performance, flexibility and programmability. The PSID products combine a proprietary non-blocking switch matrix with programmable I/O blocks, and are used for dynamic bit/bus switching and static routing/interconnect applications found in networking, telecom, image/video processing, computing and test.
• SwitchSets^TM: I-Cube's SwitchSets are complete, highly integrated, solutions targeted at specific switching applications. They bring the benefits of PSID technology to: Fast Ethernet Switching, ATM Switching and PCI Bus Switching.

IMP, Inc. is a manufacturer of analog and mixed-signal integrated circuits to the global computer, communications, and industrial markets. IMP is a technology leader in the field of analog signal processing design techniques. Products are manufactured on CMOS, high-voltage BiCMOS, and EEPROM processes in the company's ISO 9001 wafer fabrication plant in San Jose, California.

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Lattice, the pioneer of non-volatile in-system programmable, ISP(tm) devices, has expanded the ISP product families to include programmable system interconnect. The ispGDS(tm) (Generic Digital Switch) family combines the in-system programmability, high performance and low power of Lattice's E2CMOS(r) programmable logic technology with a switch matrix architecture, resulting in an innovative programmable signal router. The ispGDS is a configurable switch matrix which provides the ability to quickly implement and change p.c. board connections without changing mechanical switches or other system hardware. The ispGDS devices provide for the connections to be reprogrammed without removal from the p. c. board via a simple 5V, 4 wire serial interface. This capability allows the system designer to define hardware which can be reconfigured in-system to meet a variety of applications. The ispGDS also conserves board real estate, providing up to 22 I/Os in about a quarter square inch of board space.

Vendors	Products	Category	Demos
Lattice Semiconductors	PLD	PLD/CPLD
	CPLD

Lattice offers the world's highest performance and broadest product line of high density and low density CMOS PLDs. Our high density ispLSI 1000, 1000E, 2000, 2000V, 3000, and 6000 families, featuring In-System Programmability(TM) (ISP(TM)), combine the performance and ease of use of PLDs with the density and flexibility of FPGAs. Lattice's GAL(r) product line is the industry standard for low density PLDs.

Lucent Technologies are introducing the ORCA OR3Cxx/OR3Txxx series - a new generation of SRAM-based FPGAs built on the successful OR2CxxA/OR2TxxA FPGAs, also from Lucent Technologies Microelectronics Group , with enhancements and innovations geared toward today's high-speed designs and tomorrow's systems on a single chip. Designed from the start to be synthesis friendly and to reduce place-and-route times while maintaining the routability of the ORCA 2C/2T devices, the OR3Cxx/OR3Txxx series more than doubles the logic available in each PFU and incorporates system-level features that can further reduce logic requirements and increase system speed. OR3Cxx/OR3Txxx devices contain many new patented architectural enhancements and are offered in a variety of packages, speed grades, and temperature ranges.

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Vendors	Products	Category	Contacts
Morphologic	Tools for FPGA and Reconfigurable Computer Design	FPGA

Morphologic is dedicated to creating FPGA design tools that provide the fastest path between design concept and working hardware.

Vendors	Products	Category	Contacts
Motorola	FPGA	FPGA

Vendors	Products	Category	Contacts
Motorola	Field Programmable Analog Array (FPAA)	Field Programmable Analog Array (FPAA)

The MPAA series of Field Programmable Analog Arrays, by Motorola are a new family of products that provide flexible arrays of analog building blocks. These blocks can be configured and interconnected by software to create circuit functions that solve real-world signal processing problems. When used with supporting CAD tools, these products allow the user to create analog IC designs with low risk and minimum design expertise. In the design phase, this provides the user with an electronic breadboard for creating innovative designs and a means to quickly evaluate and make changes without using a soldering iron. In the application phase, a captured design is easily and quickly implemented from configuration data stored in an external ROM. This methodology greatly reduces the product development cycle time, enabling the user to meet agressive market introduction timelines.

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Pico Systems is a high-tech electronics company headquartered in Toledo, Ohio. The company focuses its efforts on production of custom multichip modules for applications in which quick turn-around is very important. Pico leverages antifuse technology to provide significantly shorter design cycles to users of multichip modules (MCMs). Pico pre-fabricates its MCM substrates with a variety of generic routing resources, allowing for rapid development of modules after receipt of an order. Each substrate contains full, integral power and ground planes, providing built-in decoupling capacitance. With no custom fabrication cycle, Pico delivers first modules two to three weeks after receipt of the netlist and circuit components. This cycle time represents a reduction of as much as an order of magnitude over conventional, custom-mask approaches or "hard-wired" approaches.

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Vendors	Products		Category	Demos
Philips Semiconductors	CoolRunner 3V	P3Z22V10	CPLD
		PZ3032
		PZ3064
		PZ3128
		PZ3128-10
	P5Z22V10
	PZ5032
	PZ5064
	PZ5128
	PZ5128-7

Philips Semiconductors is entering the CPLD market in a big way. Their CoolRunner CPLDs reflect innovative approaches in circuit design. The PXA architecture introduces, for the first time in CPLD products, the advantages of merged PAL/PLA logic blocks. These product designs migrate gracefully towards lower voltage power supplies and higher densities. Philips Semiconductors CPLD products are being developed on the most advanced process technologies. Samples from the first CPLD silicon found their way onto beta customers' boards, fully working. The CPLD business Unit focus' on three market segments: the 3.3 volt high performance market where high speeds are necessary to improve overall system performance; the power sensitive application arena for laptops and other battery powered portable equipment; and the mainstream 3.3 and 5.0 volt market. This CPLD effort is fundamental to Philips Semiconductors' ability to expand development of embedded cores and systems-on-chips.

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Vendors	Categories	Demos
QuickLogic Corp.	FPGA

QuickLogic designs, manufactures and markets the fastest high capacity programmable logic semiconductors, known as Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs) along with comprehensive design software. The company's products provide engineers a low-cost path to rapidly transfer high-performance custom circuitry into physical silicon at their desktop. This significantly shortens the design cycle times of electronic systems, accelerating time-to-market.

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Vendors	Categories	Demos
Vantis	(AMD's programmable logic division) PLD/CPLD products

Vantis is the new programmable logic company from AMD. Vantis brings expertise to the industry from almost two decades of innovation and excellence as one of the top suppliers of programmable logic. Consistently setting industry standards for performance, reliability and ease of use has become a way of life at Vantis. As the creator of the PAL device and the dominant supplier of simple programmable logic devices (SPLDs), today the company brings unmatched emphasis and depth to the industry as evidenced by its high-density MACH (Macro Array CMOS High Density) family.

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Vendors	Categories	Downloads
Waferscale Integration	(WSI) MCU peripherals + programmable logic

WSI's four families of PSD Programmable MCU Peripherals offer hundreds of single-chip selections. Each device perfectly complements a microcontroller when it is used in an embedded control application. PSD products contain combinations of programmable logic, EPROM, SRAM, programmable I/O, counters, timers, an interrupt controller, power management, design security, paging, low power management, and much more.

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