| TDK Semiconductor Introduces True Industrial Power Meter System-on-Chip |
August 26, 2004 -- TDK Semiconductor Corp. has unveiled what the company claims is the world’s first true system-on-chip for industrial poly-phase power meters. The new TDK 71M6513H integrates a 21 bit delta-sigma-delta converter, 32-bit compute ... read more |
| ISSI Announces Support of Xilinx Spartan-3 FPGA Family |
August 25, 2004 -- Integrated Silicon Solution, Inc. today announced high performance SRAM support for the Xilinx Spartan-3 FPGA family. ISSI's IS61LV25616AL-10T, a 10ns 4Mbit asynchronous SRAM, provides high performance, cost effective externa ... read more |
| Sanyo Adopts Forte's Cynthesizer for Design of Advanced Consumer Multimedia Devices |
August 25, 2004 -- Forte Design Systems announced today that Sanyo Electric Co. has adopted Forte's SystemC behavioral synthesis product, Cynthesizer, for the implementation of its high-performance designs for multimedia and other consumer semic ... read more |
| Mentor Graphics FastScan ATPG Tool Selected for UMC's 130 and 90 Nanometer Reference Flow |
August 25, 2004 -- Mentor Graphics Corp. today announced that its automatic test pattern generation (ATPG) tool, FastScan, has been selected for UMC's 130 and 90 nanometer digital reference flow. FastScan was chosen by UMC for its ability to ac ... read more |
| ASICS World Services USB 2.0 OTG Evaluation Platform to Support ULPI Interface |
August 25, 2004 -- ASICS World Services, Ltd. has released it's USB 2.0 OTG IP Core demonstration/evaluation platform featuring an ULPI interface working with the Philips ISP1504 ULPI compliant High Speed (HS) USB transceiver. The ULPI interfac ... read more |
| Aldec Announces webXlive for Interactive, Web-Based Demonstrations and One-on-One Support |
August 24, 2004 -- Built around the popular WebEX technology, Aldec, Inc.'s webXlive lets hardware design engineers consult in real-time with a technical advisor from Aldec about their current and future design verification requirements. The re ... read more |
| LSI Logic Signal Integrity Expertise Enables Superior Memory Interface Solutions |
August 24, 2004 -- LSI Logic Corp. has completed silicon characterization of Gflx (0.11-micron) DDR-SDRAM memory interface cores in low cost packages and RLDRAM-II and FCRAM-II memory interface cores at the highest speeds, 400MHz/800Mb/s. These ... read more |
| Mentor's Precision RTL Synthesis Tool Delivers QoR for Designs Using Actel ProASIC Plus Devices |
August 24, 2004 -- Actel Corp. and Mentor Graphics Corp. say that the latest version of Mentor Graphics Precision RTL Synthesis tool delivers significantly higher performance on designs utilizing Actel's flash-based, live at power-up ProASIC Pl ... read more |
| Agilent Multiband OFDM Technique Analyzes RF Spectral Effects to Speed Wireless Product Development |
August 24, 2004 -- Agilent Technologies, Inc. has announced multiband orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (MB-OFDM) enhancements to the Agilent Ultra-Wideband (UWB) DesignGuide. The UWB DesignGuide works with Agilent's Advanced Design Sys ... read more |
| Palmchip Launches Semiconductor Company |
August 23, 2004 -- Palmchip Corp. is launching a new company to be called Palmchip Semiconductor, Inc. The company will focus on providing chips for wireless storage applications and will soon announce the first wireless storage Application Spe ... read more |
| Mentor Graphics Adds Serial ATA IP with Acquisition of Palmchip IP Business |
August 23, 2004 -- Mentor Graphics Corp. has acquired Palmchip Corp.'s complete Parallel and Serial ATA IP business. The acquisition extends Mentor's position as a provider of communication standards-based IP by adding Palmchip's industry-leadi ... read more |
| Synopsys' DesignWare IP Core for PCI Express First to Pass PCI-SIG Compliance Tests |
August 23, 2004 -- Synopsys, Inc. has announced that its DesignWare Endpoint Controller intellectual property (IP) Core for PCI Express is the first such IP to successfully pass compliance tests from the PCI-SIG. The DesignWare Endpoint Controll ... read more |
| MIPS Technologies Licenses Pro Series Processor Core to SiNett |
August 23, 2004 -- MIPS Technologies, Inc. has licensed the MIPS32 4KEp Pro core to SiNett Corp., a developer of wireless local area network (WLAN) packet processing silicon and software.
The 4KEp Pro core offers performance of 356 Dhryst ... read more |
| Apache's Physical Power Integrity Flow Adopted by ATI Technologies |
August 23, 2004 -- ATI Technologies, Inc., a leader in design and manufacturing of innovative visual processor solutions, has adopted Apache's full-chip dynamic physical power integrity flow.
After an extensive evaluation against other ... read more |
| ARM and Artisan Combine to Deliver System-on-Chip IP Solutions |
August 23, 2004 -- ARM and Artisan Components, Inc. have entered into a definitive agreement under which ARM will acquire Artisan. The acquisition will result in a strong strategic combination, enabling the combined company to deliver one of t ... read more |
| Skymedi Produces MultiMediaCard 4.0 chip Using Faraday's 0.18µm Structured ASIC Library |
August 20, 2004 -- Faraday Technology Corp. has announced that Skymedi, one of its ASIC service clients, successfully produced the first MultiMeidaCard 4.0 (MMC4.0) flashcard controller chip, SK6802, by adopting Faraday’s 0.18µm metal programmab ... read more |
| MLDesigner 2.5 Brings New Modeling Domain, Performance Improvements |
August 19, 2004 -- MLDesign Technologies (MLD) has released version 2.5 of its MLDesigner system-level design platform with a new modeling domain that links MLDesigner to the NS2* network simulator. Using the MLDesigner NS2 domain, NS2 models ca ... read more |
| Impulse Announces CoDeveloper for Virtex II Pro |
August 19, 2004 -- Impulse Accelerated Technologies, Inc. has released Impulse CoDeveloper for Virtex II Pro. CoDeveloper makes it possible to describe, test and compile C language applications, partitioning them between the Virtex II Pro’s emb ... read more |
| Cypress Publishes Reference Book on Managing Soft Error Rates in SRAM Design |
August 19, 2004 -- Cypress Semiconductor Corp. has announced the publication of "SER -- History, Trends, and Challenges: A Guide for Designing with Memory ICs," by James Ziegler and Helmut Puchner. This helpful text provides design engineers wi ... read more |
| Metrowerks CodeWarrior Selected as the Official Development Tools Suite for Nintendo DS |
August 19, 2004 -- Metrowerks Corp. and Nintendo have signed an agreement and begun distributing a comprehensive tools suite for the creation of innovative, feature-rich games for the handheld Nintendo DS videogame system.
Nintendo has tu ... read more |
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