| Silicon Integration Initiative Forms New Open Modeling Coalition Featured |
September 15, 2005 -- The Silicon Integration Initiative (Si2) today officially announced the formation of the Open Modeling Coalition (OMC) to address critical issues -- such as accuracy, consistency, security, and process variations -- in the ... read more |
| AMD64 Longevity Program Branches out with New Low Power Processors for High-End Embedded Designs |
September 14, 2005 -- Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. (AMD) announced today that its AMD64 Longevity Program for high-end embedded solutions, which guarantees processor availability for at least five years, has expanded to include two additional lo ... read more |
| Accelerated Technology Releases Embedded Software Book Featured |
September 14, 2005 -- Accelerated Technology has announced the release of "Embedded Software: The Works," a book compiled by Colin Walls, Technology Specialist at Accelerated Technology with over 20 years of embedded design experience. The book ... read more |
| 1394 Trade Association Developing IP Over Isochronous 1394 Specification |
September 14, 2005 -- The 1394 Trade Association has formed a new Task Group to develop a specification for the transport of IP packets over isochronous (real-time) 1394. The group's efforts will build on the existing IP over 1394 specification ... read more |
| Altera MAX II CPLDs Reduce Costs, Increase Manufacturing Flexibility for Leapster L-MAX Handheld Learning Device |
September 14, 2005 -- Altera Corp. has announced that LeapFrog Enterprises, Inc. reduced costs and increased flexibility in the manufacturing process for its new Leapster L-MAX Learning Game System by integrating Altera MAX II CPLDs into the lea ... read more |
| Altium Announces Support for Lattice FPGA Devices |
September 14, 2005 -- Altium, Ltd. is now supporting Lattice Semiconductor's LatticeEC and LatticeECP FPGA devices as part of its recently released Service Pack 4 (SP4) for Altium Designer, a unified application to incorporate all the technolog ... read more |
| Texas Instruments and MangoDSP Announce New Low-Cost Solution for Advanced Video Surveillance Applications |
September 14, 2005 -- Texas Instruments. Inc. and MangoDSP, Inc. have announced today the availability of the Mango IVS (Intelligent Video Server) running on TI's TMS320DM642 digital media processor. With this offering, TI and MangoDSP afford v ... read more |
| Rheinmetall Defence Taps RF Engines for an FPGA based Flexible Channelizer and Integrated Spectrum Analyzer |
September 14, 2005 -- RF Engines, Ltd. (RFEL) and Rheinmetall Defence Electronics (RDE) GmbH, Germany’s leading defence technology company, have released details of a recently signed major contract. The contract relates to the supply and integra ... read more |
| Macraigor Systems Announces On-Chip Debug Support for Freescale i.MX31 Processors |
September 14, 2005 –- Macraigor Systems, LLC is now providing support for Freescale Semiconductor, Inc.’s high-performance i.MX31 and i.MX31L multimedia application processors. Debugging and control of this chip will be supported by all Macraigo ... read more |
| K-Micro Adds SonicsMX Technology to its SoC IP Portfolio |
September 14, 2005 -- K-Micro (Kawasaki Microelectronics) and Sonics, Inc. today announced that K-Micro has added the SonicsMX SMART Interconnect to its SoC IP portfolio for low-power, mobile and consumer applications.
The convergence of ... read more |
| LSI Logic Adopts Fabless Manufacturing Strategy Featured |
September 14, 2005 -- LSI Logic Corp. has announced plans to adopt a fabless manufacturing model to better serve its global customer base, reduce production costs and adopt leading-edge process technologies. The company's new manufacturing strat ... read more |
| TI Broadens RS-232 Interface Portfolio with IEC ESD Protected Devices |
September 14, 2005 -- Texas Instruments, Inc. has introduced new RS-232 devices with system-level IEC 61000-4-2 ESD (electrostatic discharge) protection. Integrating IEC 61000-4-2 protection onto these devices makes the RS-232 interface immune t ... read more |
| TI and Airbee Deliver Low Power, Free 4-Node ZigBee Solution |
September 14, 2005 – Helping speed ZigBee and 802.15.4 compliant systems to market, Texas Instruments, Inc. has announced the availability of Airbee Wireless’ ZNS-Lite, ZigBee-ready networking stack software for the MSP430 platform of ultra-lo ... read more |
| Simon-Kaloi Engineering Selects Analog Devices' Blackfin Processor and RTXC RTOS for Multimedia Theme-Park Applications |
September 14, 2005 -- Analog Devices, Inc. and Quadros Systems, Inc. today announced that Simon-Kaloi Engineering has chosen the combination of the Blackfin Processor and the RTXC Quadros RTOS as the core convergent processing platform for its l ... read more |
| Cypress Inaugurates Design Center in China |
September 14, 2005 -- Cypress Semiconductor Corp. has inugurated a regional chip design center in Shanghai. The location will provide IC design and sales support to Cypress's Asia-Pacific customers. Cypress is expecting to hire as many as 50 lo ... read more |
| TTPCom Selects LSI Logic's Platform ASIC Technology to Validate its Openly Licensable 3G Baseband Modem |
September 14, 2005 -- LSI Logic Corp. today announced that UK-based TTPCom has selected the LSI Logic RapidChip Integrator2 Platform ASIC for its next generation 3G cellular modem technology - the Cellular Baseband Macro 3G. The CBEmacro 3G will ... read more |
| New EPC Gen2 RFID Chips from STMicroelectronics Facilitate Supply Chain Management |
September 14, 2005 -- STMicroelectronics has introduced a UHF (ultra-high frequency) contactless memory chip, compliant with the latest Electronic Product Code (EPC) specifications. ST's XRAG2 meets the key requirements for next-generation supp ... read more |
| Real-Time Innovations Acquires SkyBoard from 4TEC |
September 14, 2005 -- Real-Time Innovations, Inc. (RTI) today announced the acquisition of 4TEC BV’s SkyBoard intellectual property (IP) and development team. SkyBoard distributes databases across multiple nodes, enabling performance-critical ap ... read more |
| Spectrum Signal Processing Introduces Latest Rapid-Prototyping Platform for Communications Intelligence Applications |
September 14, 2005 -- Spectrum Signal Processing, Inc. today announced the flexComm HCDR-1000 CRDP, a communications intelligence (COMINT) rapid-prototyping and development platform. This fully integrated, commercial-off-the-shelf (COTS) softwa ... read more |
| STMicroelectronics and Mobidiag Unveil Lab-on-Chip for Rapid Bacterial Diagnosis |
September 14, 2005 -- STMicroelectronics and Mobidiag today introduced a new lab-on-chip application for DNA-based detection of sepsis-causing bacteria, using a diagnostic panel from Mobidiag that runs on ST's In-Check platform. Providing faster ... read more |
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