| Avnet ASIC Israel Selected as a MIPS Technologies Approved Design Center |
October 31, 2005 -- MIPS Technologies, Inc. today announced the selection of Avnet ASIC Israel, Ltd. (AAI) as a MIPS Technologies Approved Design Center. AAI is a subsidiary of Avnet, Inc., one of the world's largest distributors of semiconducto ... read more |
| Freescale Unveils 3G Single Core Modem for Mobile Phones |
October 31, 2005 -- Freescale Semiconductor, Inc. has unveiled its new 3G single core modem processor, at the heart of the MXC300-30 platform, based on the Mobile eXtreme Convergence architecture. According to Freescale, it is the first to provi ... read more |
| National Semiconductor Introduces Low Phase Noise Single-Chip PLL + VCO |
October 31, 2005 -- National Semiconductor Corp. today introduced the LMX2531, what the company claims is the industry's lowest phase noise monolithic phase-locked loop and voltage- controlled oscillator (PLL + VCO) chip. With a frequency range ... read more |
| VeriSilicon and SMIC Jointly Announce Standard Design Platform for SMIC's Advanced 0.13-micron CMOS Process Technology |
October 31, 2005 -- VeriSilicon Holdings Co., Ltd. (VeriSilicon) and Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corporation (SMIC) jointly announced today the release of VeriSilicon's Standard Design Platform for SMIC's advanced 0.13-micron CMOS ... read more |
| Trident's SVP EX Video Processor Powers New LCD TV Lineup from Xoceco |
October 31, 2005 -- Trident Technologies, Inc., a wholly-owned subsidiary of Trident Microsystems, Inc., today announced that TV ODM supplier Xoceco has launched a new family of LCD TVs based on the SVP EX 10-bit video processor that features th ... read more |
| Mentor Graphics Expands DFM Strategy with YieldAssist Diagnostics Tool for Yield Improvement |
October 31, 2005 -- Mentor Graphics Corp. has announced the immediate availability of the YieldAssist diagnostic tool. With the ability to quickly and accurately identify and isolate yield-limiting defects, YieldAssist enhances semiconductor yie ... read more |
| Aldec Releases Active-HDL 7.1 with New Simulation Technology and SystemVerilog Support Featured |
October 31, 2005 -- Aldec, Inc. today announced the release of Active-HDL 7.1, a new FPGA and ASIC design entry and verification platform with several new high productivity tools. New tools include ultra-high speed gate-level simulation technolo ... read more |
| CAST Offers "Ready-to-Use" IP Subsystems for ARM and AMBA Systems |
October 28, 2005 -- CAST, Inc. today announced the immediate availability of ready-to-use IP subsystems for designers working with ARM processors and the AMBA bus architecture. The new Pre-integrated IP (PiP) products give system-on-chip (SoC) d ... read more |
| ARM Acquires Keil |
October 28, 2005 -- ARM today announced it has acquired Keil, an independent provider of software development tools for the microcontroller (MCU) market. Keil operates jointly through two privately-owned companies, Keil Elektronik GmbH in Munic ... read more |
| ARM RealView ESL APIs Enable Plug-and-Play ESL Models |
October 27, 2005 -- ARM has released its RealView Embedded System Level (ESL) Application Programming Interface (API) specifications, which will enable third parties to create models that plug-and-play in SystemC environments. Developed collabor ... read more |
| SiS Selects Rambus PCI Express PHY Solutions for its PC Chipset Products |
October 27, 2005 -- Rambus, Inc. and Silicon Integrated Systems Corp. (SiS) today announced that SiS has licensed Rambus’ PCI Express PHY cells for use in its PC core logic products. SiS core logic chipsets address the high-volume PC market, fe ... read more |
| Ateme Introduces High Performance MPEG-4 AVC/H.264 Encoder PC Suite |
October 27, 2005 -- Ateme has today introduced an integrated MPEG-4 AVC/H.264 Offline Encoder PC Suite, leveraging its well received MPEG-4 AVC/H.264 encoder core.
The PC Encoder Suite enables fast HD encoding, in Baseline, Main and High P ... read more |
| videantis Introduces Performance Multistandard Semiconductor Cores for Video Applications |
October 27, 2005 -- videantis GmbH has announced the addition of two new cores to its portfolio of video IP solutions. The new cores are the next generation of an overall roadmap supporting the latest standards and video enhancement technologies ... read more |
| Celoxica Completes Successful IPO Featured |
October 27, 2005 -- Celoxica, the leading provider of C-based electronic system level (ESL) design and synthesis solutions, today announced its admission to the Alternative Investment Market (AIM) of the London Stock Exchange (LSE) and the comm ... read more |
| Faraday's NetComposer Platform Selected by SafeNet for SafeXcel Security Processors |
October 27, 2005 -- Faraday Technology Corp. today announced that SafeNet, Inc. has selected Faraday's NetComposer (NC-1) structured ASICs as the platform for the company's next generation enterprise security processors. The first SafeNet SafeXc ... read more |
| Anchor Bay Technologies Announces Availability of Proprietary Chip and System Level Video Processing Solutions |
October 26, 2005 -- Anchor Bay Technologies, Inc. (ABT), creator of the DVDO video processing technologies, announced today the official launch of its Powered by ABT brand to the commercial market. Anchor Bay Technologies provides both chip and ... read more |
| Altium Sponsors X-Ray Astronomy Satellite Mission |
October 26, 2005 -- Altium, Ltd. has announced a sponsorship for Brazil's National Institute for Space Research, Space and Atmospheric Sciences Division. Under the sponsorship deal, Altium will equip the research team with its Altium Designer sy ... read more |
| Altera and Wi-LAN Form Partnership to Offer Programmable WiMAX BTS Modem Solution |
October 26, 2005 -- Altera Corp. and Wi-LAN, Inc. have announced a partnership to deliver the first programmable, low-cost WiMAX-compliant base transceiver station (BTS) modem solution supporting the IEEE 802.16-2004 standard. The solution allow ... read more |
| Alpha Data and 4i2i Demonstrate Real-Time Teleconferencing |
October 26, 2005 -- Alpha Data and 4i2i demonstrated an FPGA based High Definition H264 Codec solution at the recent GSPx Conference. The demonstration uses a high resolution camera fed to a Virtex-4 device with compressed images transmitted ove ... read more |
| Nallatech Extends COTS Performance Density with New Virtex-4 FPGA Computing Family |
October 26, 2005 -- Nallatech, Ltd. has announced four new COTS FPGA products that combine the processing and I/O performance of Xilinx Virtex-4 FPGAs with enhancements to Nallatech's DIME-II architecture including host interface improvements an ... read more |
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