Start with the news release EASA certifies avionics unit with Altera processor from Altera, which we summarised at the time by saying "The European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) has certified a safety-critical avionics system that includes a DO-254/ED-80-certifiable version of Altera's Nios II embedded processor.". Several months prior to that, we featured the news release SoC ICs for cable and terrestrial set-top boxes from ST Microelectronics: "STMicroelectronics has unveied the STi7162 and STi5262, two System-on-Chip ICs allowing standard-definition (SD) or high-definition (HD) equipment to share the same printed-circuit-board (PCB) design.".
 
In December 2010, we covered the news from Texas Instruments - take a look at TPS54618 for DSP- and FPGA-based communications which says: "The TPS54618 provides 95-per-cent efficiency and operating current of 2.95-6V for point-of-load designs used in DSP- and FPGA-based communications, test and medical equipment. ".
 
Take a look also at the news release from Mistral Solutions, Development board for HMI/automotive applications, as well as FPGA-based frame grabbers for image acquisition from Stemmer Imaging, and Connector system for engine control units and more from Molex.