Archive for July, 2018

Accelerating Positive Change Within the RISC-V Landscape – A Q&A with Microsemi’s Ted Marena

Editor’s Note: A May 2018 announcement by Microsemi of its collaboration with fabless semiconductor company SiFive, aimed at enabling Linux software and firmware developers to build RISC-V PCs, offered the opportunity Read more »

Storage Adapter Solutions Expand to Include Integrated On-board Cache Protection + Support for maxCrypto™

Today, two new additions to Microsemi Adaptec’s Smart Storage 12 Gbps SAS/SATA adapter family were announced: the SmartRAID 3162-8i and SmartRAID 3162-8i /e. Read more »

Switchtec PFX Gen3 PCIe Fanout Switches: Industry’s Highest-Density, Lowest Power PCIe Switch

Switchtec PFX Gen3 PCIe fanout switches provide the industry’s highest-density, lowest power PCIe switch for data center, communications, workstation, and video production applications. With simple hardware configuration, Read more »

Industry-Leading PCIe Solutions Including Storage and Fanout Switches for Data Centers + Other Applications

PCI Express (PCIe) is a widely deployed bus interconnect interface that is commonly used in server platforms. Increasingly, it is also used as Read more »

Improving Space Systems Designs Using FPGAs with RISC-V Cores

The April 2018 edition of SatNews magazine published an article by Ted Marena and Ken O’Neill from Microsemi that discussed the advantages of using processors based upon the RISC-V open instruction set architecture. The article looks at Read more »

Ceramic Quad Flat Pack (CQFP) for RTG4 FPGAs Family Introduced – Provides Cost-Effective Integration

A ceramic quad flat pack (CQFP) package with 352 pins was recently introduced for RTG4 FPGAs family to provide a more cost-effective integration than higher pin count packages. CQFP is the industry-standard package for space applications Read more »

The Connected Home: Delivering the Right Connectivity Solutions for Voice, Data, and Power (Part 3 of 4)

Third in this series of articles, I’d like to share information today on voice line circuits and Power over Ethernet (PoE) as related to enabling the connected home. Read more »

Network-Based Time Delivery for 5G: Low Latency, Scalable Synchronization in Highly

In the past couple of articles in this series, my colleague, Barry Dropping, wrote about wireless networks, specifically laying the groundwork for 5G and the standards for distribution of time and phase in these networks. Read more »

Microsemi’s Timberwolf™ Audio Processing Solution for the Connected Home (Part 2 of 4)

In the first article of this series, we wrote about Microsemi being a leading provider of energy-efficient and cost-effective semiconductor system solutions for the broadband home, delivering the right connectivity solutions for voice, data, and power. Read more »