| CEVA Launches Xpert-Palm |
May 24, 2004 -- CEVA, Inc. has launched Xpert-Palm, a licensable DSP system-on-chip platform built around CEVA's Palm DSP core. CEVA-Palm DSP exploits a parallel DSP architecture, architecture accelerators (e.g. Viterbi, FFT) and variable data w ... read more |
| Celoxica Releases C Synthesis Toolkit for Altera SOPC Builder |
May 24, 2004 -- Celoxica, Ltd. has announced availability of the DK Accelerator for Altera's SOPC Builder. The DK Accelerator generates FPGA hardware components directly from Handel-C descriptions for use in the SOPC Builder system development t ... read more |
| Cadence and EMA to Provide Free ActiveParts Online Database for OrCAD Customers |
May 24, 2004 -- Cadence Design Systems, Inc. and EMA Design Automation, a full-service solutions provider dedicated to the EDA marketplace, today announced that they will provide the ActiveParts Online Database free to all existing OrCAD Capture ... read more |
| Blue Pearl Software to Automate the Process of RTL Closure for IC and Electronic System Design |
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May 24, 2004 -- Blue Pearl Software, Inc. has been launched to automate the process of RTL closure for IC and electronic system design. Blue Pearl provides ASIC, structured ASIC and FPGA designers with functional design closure by checking com ... read more |
| Prolific Extends Capabilities in ProTiming to Enable Signal Integrity Closure |
May 24, 2004 -- Prolific, Inc. today announced that ProTiming, a tool for design optimization, has now extended its capabilities to enable signal integrity (SI) repair in the IC implementation flow.
To achieve this, ProTiming uses the cap ... read more |
| Real Intent's Formal Assertion-Based Verification Software Verifies ATI's Radeon Graphics Chips |
May 21, 2004 -- ATI Technologies, Inc. has deployed Real Intent's Verix software to verify several Radeon chips, the latest in its highly successful family of graphics products. ATI Technologies designs and implements industry-leading high-perfo ... read more |
| Leopard Logic Selects True Circuits IP for Gladiator CLD Configurable Logic Devices |
May 20, 2004-- True Circuits, Inc. (TCI) announced today that Leopard Logic has implemented multiple True Circuits PLL and DLL hard macros in its new Gladiator CLD family of configurable logic devices, which feature a unique combination of mask- ... read more |
| Altera Introduces Nios II Integrated Development Environment |
May 19, 2004 -- Altera Corp. has announced the immediate availability of the Nios II integrated development environment (IDE), based on the open and extensible Eclipse platform. This platform has become the preferred development framework among ... read more |
| Accelerated Technology Announces First Commercial RTOS and Development Tools for Altera's Nios II Embedded Processors |
May 19, 2004 -- Accelerated Technology, the Embedded Systems Division of Mentor Graphics Corp. has announced the first commercial RTOS and development tools support for the new Nios II embedded processor family from Altera Corp. The Nucleus soft ... read more |
| UMC Achieves 30% Performance Enhancement on 45nm Transistors Through Substrate Engineering |
May 19, 2004--UMC announced that its research and development team has achieved a significant performance enhancement on 45nm p-channel transistors through substrate engineering. UMC's engineers have implemented a new substrate crystalline orientation ... read more |
| TI's DSL and DSPs Enable Video Network's HomeChoice IP-based On-Demand Internet and TV Service |
May 19, 2004 -- Interactive TV provider Video Networks, Ltd. and Texas Instruments, Inc. today announced that Video Networks has chosen TI's latest DSP-based TMS320DM642 digital media processor and AR7 single-chip DSL router solution for its upc ... read more |
| Marvell Announces First Family of High Performance Embedded Microprocessors Using the ARM Architecture |
May 19, 2004 -- Marvell and ARM today announced that Marvell has signed a full architectural licensing agreement that enables them to produce a new family of high performance, proprietary embedded microprocessors that will fully run the ARM arc ... read more |
| FishTail Design Automation Signs Toshiba's System LSI Division |
May 19, 2004 -- FishTail Design Automation, Inc. today announced that Toshiba's System LSI Division has purchased the company's Focus product, a tool for generating false and multi-cycle paths, for use in its System LSI chip-implementation proj ... read more |
| Fujitsu Licenses Mentor Graphics 10 Gigabit Ethernet MAC Solution |
May 19, 2004 -- Mentor Graphics Corp. has announced the licensing of its A-XGMAC 10 Gigabit Ethernet Media Access Controller (MAC) by Fujitsu Laboratories of America, Inc.
Recently, Fujitsu Microelectronics America and Fujitsu Laboratories ... read more |
| eDFX Services Selects Valor's High-End DFM Solution |
May 19, 2004 -- Valor Computerized Systems today announced that eDFX Services, Inc., an electronics design outsourcing firm, selected Valor's Trilogy 5000 pre-production engineering solution to expand its service offering with high-end DFM (Des ... read more |
| DCI Adopts Allegro for PCB Design |
May 18, 2004 -- Dimensions Consulting, Inc. (DCI) has adopted Cadence Design System's Allegro tools for high performance ATE printed-circuit board (PCB) design. The company also announced that it will begin offering simulation services for pre- ... read more |
| Tensilica Unveils Next-Generation Xtensa LX Processor Core |
May 18, 2004 – Tensilica, Inc. has unveiled its next-generation Xtensa LX configurable processor featuring both higher computational throughput and dramatically higher I/O (input/output) bandwidth. Tensilica claims that this performance, comb ... read more |
| QuickLogic Ships Eclipse II FPGA Low Power CPLD Alternative |
May 18, 2004 -- QuickLogic Corp. has announced the production availability of two additional members of the Eclipse II µWatt FPGA family, the QL8025 and QL8050. The QL8025 has 47K logic gates and the QL8050 has 64K logic gates. Both devices inc ... read more |
| Tensilica's Xtensa LX Beats other 32- and 64-bit Processor Cores on EEMBC Consumer "Out of the Box" Benchmark |
May 18, 2004 -- Tensilica, Inc.'s new Xtensa LX configurable processor core has received the highest certified out-of-the-box score ever recorded for any 32-bit or 64-bit processor core tested against the Consumer benchmark suite of the Embedded ... read more |
| Xilinx FPGA Processor Solutions Deliver 10X Advantage for Embedded Systems Designers |
May 18, 2004 -- Xilinx, Inc. has announced independent third-party test results for the 32-bit MicroBlaze processor platform running Accelerated Technology's Nucleus RTOS. The Accelerated Technology tests reaffirm the order of magnitude performa ... read more |
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