Revision as of 09:40, 24 April 2013

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24 April 2013

IP updates
further Device Support for Virtex-7, Zynq-7000 and Defenense-Grade Kintex-7Q, Virtex-7Q

Model-/QuestaSim 10.0f is now available on guo's Software Server

This update brings following new features to the 10.0 release:

Improved GUI performance – Improved structure window and objects window
VHDL Improvements - Support for significant portions of VHDL 2008 and Preservation

of user case in identifiers

New advanced debug features including schematic view debug and automatic causality

tracing

The IEEE Std 1800-2012 a.k.a. SystemVerilog is available for download

The 31 new features, 60 clarifications and 71 corrections of the standard include:

More infos here

UIT Wiki Presentation

The presentation slides can be downloaded here.

After 7 years of development, Qt 5.0, centered around Qt Quick with the full capabilities of OpenGL/OpenGL ES, has been released.

Faster GUI with QML and QtQuick with special focus on low cost HW environments (mobile, embedded).
Built-in OpenGL (ES) support
Webkit and HTML5

5K - 120K LUTs, 190k - 4.5Mbit RAM, 11 -240 Math (DSP) blocks
166 MHz ARM® Cortex™-M3 microprocessor with 8Kbyte Instruction Cache
- connects to USB 2.0 HS OTG, CAN, SPI, I2C and Gigabit Ethernet
static power 10mW during operation on the 50K LUT device
0 - 16 5Gbps SERDES, PCIe, XAUI / XGXS+ Native SERDES
Hard 800 mbps DDR2/3 controllers with SECDED (aka ECC or EDAC) protection
but no more DAC/ADC
samples available now, first production silicon slated for early 2013

HDL-Designer 2012.1 has been released

UVM 1.1b

This bugfix release is available for download now.

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 {{NewsBox|After 7 years of development, [http://qt-project.org/qt5 ''Qt 5.0''], centered around Qt Quick with the full capabilities of OpenGL/OpenGL ES, has been released.||
-Note: [http://qt-project.org/forums/viewthread/22883/#106962 due to problems with ''QtWebkit'' there are no official ''MinGW'' builds yet, but a patch is previewed before end of January 2013]
 * Faster GUI with ''QML'' and ''QtQuick'' with special focus on low cost HW environments (mobile, embedded).
 * Built-in ''OpenGL (ES)'' support
-* ''Webkit'' and ''HTML5''
+* ''Webkit'' and ''HTML5''}}
-* Easy porting from Qt
-}}
 {{NewsBox|[http://www.microsemi.com/ Microsemi] [http://investor.microsemi.com/releasedetail.cfm?ReleaseID711708 revealed] the new ''[http://www.actel.com/fpga/SmartFusion2/ SmartFusion®2]'' SoC||
 * 5K - 120K LUTs,  190k - 4.5Mbit RAM, 11 -240 Math (DSP) blocks