| Toshiba Launches Family of SATA PHY Cores for Storage, Networking and Consumer Markets |
March 7, 2005 – Toshiba America Electronic Components, Inc. (TAEC) has announced a new family of 1.5Gbps and 3Gbps Serial ATA (SATA) PHY cores to support the SATA and Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) specifications for the 130nm process node. The cor ... read more |
| Tensilica Teams with Magellan Discovery for Taiwan Market Expansion |
March 7, 2005 -- Tensilica, Inc.is working with Magellan Discovery Corp. in Taiwan, which will provide sales, design and technical support for Tensilica's Xtensa processors.
"Magellan brings a comprehensive sales and support package for th ... read more |
| iRoC Technologies Introduces TFIT Software to Help Custom and Handcrafted Chips Meet Reliability Targets |
March 7, 2005 -- iRoC Technologies Corp. has introduced TFIT software, the newest product in its Soft Error Design Solution Platform. TFIT lets IC designers analyze the impact of soft error strikes on their custom designs to help meet reliabilit ... read more |
| Atmel and Celoxica Co-Develop ESL Design for Next Generation Processors |
March 7, 2005 -- Atmel Corp. and Celoxica, Ltd. announced today cooperation that extends Electronic System Level (ESL) design to a family of dynamically reconfigurable processors currently under development at Atmel. These new backend tools are ... read more |
| ZFoundry Collaborates with Cadence on Process Design Kits for Analog and Mixed-Signal ICs |
March 7, 2005 -- ZFoundry has announced a collaborative agreement with Cadence Design Systems, Inc. which will enable ZFoundry to deliver process design kits (PDKs) targeting analog and mixed-signal ICs. The PDKs integrate ZFoundry's ZMD Advanc ... read more |
| Experts in Design for Test Launch DeFacTo Technologies |
March 7, 2005 -- Experts in the design for test (DFT) of electronic systems today launched DeFacTo Technologies to leverage its patent-pending DFT technology, develop products and services for the worldwide electronics market. For the past two y ... read more |
| Aldec Releases Riviera-IPT with Support for ARM926 |
March 7, 2005 -- Aldec, Inc. has announced the release of Riviera-IPT with all new support for the ARM926 hardcore processor including functionality for SMART Clocking and Memory Mapping. Riviera-IPT with ARM provides a hardware accelerated s ... read more |
| ARM Announces Rapid System Prototyping Solution for ARM11 Family-Based Systems |
March 7, 2005 -- ARM has announced the availability of RealView ESL tools support for ARM11 family-based system prototyping. The RealView ESL tools reduce and improve the full design process by working at the cycle- and transaction-based abstrac ... read more |
| Lauterbach Debugger Delivers Multi-Processor Support for Altera's Nios II Embedded Processor |
March 7, 2005 -- Altera Corp. and Lauterbach GmbH have announced immediate multi-processor debug support for Altera's Nios II soft-core embedded processor. Software engineers can now take advantage of a software environment tailored to debugging ... read more |
| Freescale Strengthens StarCore DSP Roadmap with Increased Performance, Higher Channel Densities and Advanced Diagnostics |
March 7, 2005 --Freescale Semiconductor, Inc. has announced two high-performance additions to the low-cost MSC711x family of DSPs based on StarCore technology. With the introduction of the MSC7119 and MSC7118 DSPs, the MSC711x family now include ... read more |
| Latest OrCAD Technology from Cadence Strengthens Scalable PCB-Level Design |
March 7, 2005 -- Cadence Design Systems, Inc. has introduced the OrCAD Signal Explorer product, the latest advance in its scalable, personal productivity product line. OrCAD Signal Explorer product features new PCB-level topology exploration and ... read more |
| Cradle Delivers Industry’s High Single-chip DSP Performance |
March 7, 2005 – Cradle Technologies, Inc. has announced three products in its new CT3600 product family, which the company claims are the industryy’s highest single-chip DSP performance and most scalable price/performance DSP platform for embed ... read more |
| UMC and Virage Logic Announce Qualification of Embedded Non-Volatile Memory Technology on UMC's 0.18-micron Logic Process |
March 7, 2005 -- UMC and Virage Logic Corp. have announced the availability of Virage Logic's patented Non-Volatile Electrically Alterable (NOVeA) embedded memories for production on UMC's 0.18-micron CMOS logic process. NOVeA is the first comme ... read more |
| New Multicap 8 Schematic Capture from Electronics Workbench |
March 7, 2005 -– Electronics Workbench, a National Instruments company, has announced Multicap 8 with enhanced schematic capture functionality. With its built-in intelligence, Multicap reduces schematic creation time and adds support for even mo ... read more |
| Xilinx Simplifies Embedded System Design with New 7.1 Release of Platform Studio Suite |
| March 7, 2005 -- Xilinx, Inc. has announced the latest version 7.1i of the Platform Studio tool suite for Platform FPGA embedded processing design. This new release streamlines development with the embedded features of the new Xilinx Virtex-4 FX fa ... read more |
| New ModelSim Xilinx Edition-III Offers Faster Simulation and Increased Design Capacity |
March 7, 2005 -- Xilinx, Inc. announced up to 50% faster HDL simulation and 20 times more design capacity for the new ModelSim Edition-III (MXE-III) simulator. This enhanced HDL simulator works directly within the Xilinx ISE (Integrated Software ... read more |
| NEC Electronics Unveils 90-Nanometer Embedded DRAM Technology |
March 7, 2005 -- NEC Electronics Corp. and its subsidiaries in North America and Europe, NEC Electronics America, Inc. and NEC Electronics (Europe) GmbH, today announced its new metal insulator metal (MIM) technology for 90nm embedded DRAM (eDRA ... read more |
| NEC Electronics Introduces the CMOS-12M Series of Mainstream Structured ASICs |
| March 7, 2005 -- NEC Electronics and its subsidiaries in the United States and Europe, NEC Electronics America, Inc. and NEC Electronics (Europe) GmbH, have introduced the CMOS-12M series of mainstream structured ASICs based on the company's 150nm ... read more |
| Virtio Adds Power Management for Advanced 3G Phone Development |
March 7, 2005 -- Virtio Corp. has enhanced its VPOM-2420 Virtual Platform release 2.0, for the Texas Instruments OMAP platform used in advanced 3G smartphones. The product, which provides fast, full-function emulation for TI's OMAP2420 software ... read more |
| MIPS Architecture Selected by Infineon as Standard for Its VoIP Solutions |
March 7, 2005 -- MIPS Technologies, Inc. today announced that Infineon Technologies AG has standardized upon the MIPS32 24Kc and the MIPS32 M4K processor cores for future development of its VoIP business. A MIPS licensee since 2000, Infineon i ... read more |
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