FPGA news, briefly

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12 Nov 2026
AMD announces Versal TR devices with a protection die bonded over the silicon backside
Three tamper-resistant Versal AI Edge Gen 2 parts add a sensor die covering the chip backside, post-quantum signature acceleration and new glitch detectors. Samples are due in the second half of 2027.
AMD hardware security soc fpgas
12 Nov 2026
Yosys 0.71 reimplements strings and lifts the multiplier size limit in the MCM pass
The November release of the open-source synthesis tool changes its internal string storage, which may break plugins, adds a shuffle pass and FPGA target options, and fixes out-of-memory crashes on large case statements.
Open source open source toolchains hdl languages
10 Nov 2026
Lattice and NXP pair Nexus FPGAs with the i.MX 95 over PCIe for industrial edge designs
The Lattice NXP PCIe Companion solution puts a Certus-NX or CertusPro-NX beside NXP's i.MX 95 applications processor for deterministic I/O, interface bridging and hardware-rooted security.
Lattice soc fpgas hardware security
10 Nov 2026
QuickLogic lands 16 nm automotive eFPGA win as revenue rises 153 per cent
Third-quarter revenue of 5.1 million US dollars, a narrower loss and a six-figure eFPGA Hard IP licence for an automotive and industrial SoC aimed at battery management and motor control.
QuickLogic efpga and adaptive asics careers and industry
8 Nov 2026
AT&T UNIX PC recreated in FPGA logic for the MiSTer platform
Hrvoje Cavrak's core reproduces the 1985 workstation's 68010, MMU, disk controllers, video and even its modem on a DE10-Nano, with parts of the code written with help from LLM tools.
Altera Open source boards and kits hdl languages
2 Nov 2026
Lattice reports record quarter as FPGA revenue climbs about 90 per cent
Third-quarter revenue reached 291.0 million US dollars, up 118 per cent year on year, with data centre AI demand driving the Compute and Communications segment. The total includes two months of the AMI acquisition.
Lattice careers and industry data centre and acceleration
29 Oct 2026
Microchip adds EtherCAT and TSN IP to its PolarFire FPGA and SoC platform
Beckhoff's EtherCAT IP and Microchip's own TSN IP join the PolarFire industrial networking stack, with a dual gigabit Ethernet FMC card and the PolarFire SoC Video Kit offered for prototyping.
Microchip soc fpgas high speed io
28 Oct 2026
Altera announces Agilex 2X, with Agilex 27 first and silicon not due until 2027
Altera's Innovators Day launch covers four families, a third-generation HyperFlex fabric and the QuartusIQ assistant in Quartus Prime 26.3. Engineering samples of Agilex 27 are expected in the second half of 2027.
Altera fpga architecture high speed io