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Based on Xilinx Artix UltraScale+ FPGA Complements Opal Kelly’s XEM8320 Development Platform and Features Their FrontPanel SDK Press Release Portland, Oregon – April 12, 2022 Opal Kelly, a leading producer of powerful Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) modules that provide essential device-to-computer interconnect, today announced the XEM8310-AU25P development module for the Xilinx Artix® UltraScale+™ FPGA. […]

Based on Xilinx Artix UltraScale+ FPGA, XEM8320-AU25P Features Opal Kelly FrontPanel SDK, SYZYGY Connectivity Media Coverage Artix UltraScale+ (Xilinx) + XEM8320 (Opal Kelly) = SYZYGY’s Time to Shine — Max Maxfield, EE Journal Xilinx Artix UltraScale+ FPGA development platform released — Gina Ross, Electronic Products FPGA Module Incorporates Multiple Modular Peripheral Connections — Product of […]

This article was sent to our newsletter subscribers in December 2021. Some of this information may be stale. This year has been challenging in a number of ways due to various supply chain issues affecting many industries worldwide. We expect these challenges to continue for several months. We also wanted to bring your attention to […]

Lead times on many electronic components we use for our products continue to increase since our previous update in September. Large customer orders placed now can expect to have a lead time of 12 to 15 months. Click to view our current inventory status (2023-02-08). If you are using (or planning to use) Opal Kelly […]

Lead times on many electronic components we use for our products continue to increase since our previous update in May. Large customer orders placed now can expect to have a lead time of 12 to 15 months. If you are using (or planning to use) Opal Kelly products in the production of your product, we […]

Lead times on many electronic components we use for our products continue to increase since our previous update in April. Large customer orders placed now can expect to have a lead time of 12 to 15 months. If you are using (or planning to use) Opal Kelly products in the production of your product, we […]

Lead times on many electronic components we use for our products continue to increase since our previous update in January. Large customer orders placed now can expect to have a lead time of up to one year (yes, that’s April 2022 delivery!!). If you are using (or planning to use) Opal Kelly products in the […]

Our latest software update release is focused on several improvements to FrontPanel over IP. In addition to updates to the server and API themselves, we’ve introduced a new Javascript library (using TypeScript). The EVB100X Reference Design software has also been updated with a new look & feel and a Javascript version to support FPoIP. Check […]

We’ve rolled a number of updates into this release. Here are some of the highlights. The Python 3 API wrapper is now compatible with all Python 3.x versions beyond 3.4. FPoIP servers may now communicate with clients based on earlier protocol versions as long as there are no incompatible differences. FrontPanel for Android distribution libraries […]

No matter how glamorous it may seem, the development and introduction of a new standard to an existing marketplace is not a savory project (see xkcd 927). It’s a period of research, iteration, skepticism, hope, and self-doubt. In the end, the goal is to satisfy some need for some people while accepting the fact that […]

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