| Faraday Announces 500 MHz FA626 ARM Core |
April 26, 2004 -- Faraday Technology Corp. has announced its next generation ARM CPU core, the FA626. Based on UMC's 0.13µm Fusion process, the FA626 delivers 500 MHz worst case in performance. At the same time, it dissipates only 0.6 mW/MHz ope ... read more |
| Giga Scale IC Takes Wraps Off InCyte Product Family Featured |
April 26, 2004 -- Giga Scale IC has taken the wraps off the InCyte product family, its next-generation IC specification system that lets users optimize between the conflicting design goals of die size, power, leakage, speed, yield and cost. InC ... read more |
| Integrity Real Time Operating System Available for Freescale’s PowerQUICC III |
April 26, 2004 -- Green Hills Software has announced that its
Integrity RTOS is available for the PowerQUICC III MPC8560 and MPC8540
integrated communications processors from Freescale Semiconductor. Software
developers can now develop a ... read more |
| Magma Announces Support for Virage Logic Structured ASIC Design Libraries |
April 26, 2004 -- Magma Design Automation, Inc. and Virage Logic Corp. announced that their joint collaboration has produced a design flow that works for both structured-ASIC and standard cell libraries. Magma's Blast Fusion support for Virag ... read more |
| ARM Ships New RealView Integrator Core Modules |
April 26, 2004 -- ARM has shipped two new Core Modules for its RealView Integrator family of hardware prototyping boards. The Integrator family provides a modular environment which enables users to quickly emulate ASICs and develop system proto ... read more |
| ALPS Licenses Tensilica's Xtensa Processor for Image Processing |
April 26, 2004 -- Tensilica, Inc. announced that the Peripheral Products Division of ALPS Electronic Co., Ltd. has licensed the Xtensa processor to improve performance and reduce power in image processing applications. The Xtensa configurable an ... read more |
| Mango DSP Introduces Cost Efficient MPEG-4 Video Surveillance Solution |
April 26, 2004 -- Mango DSP has announced the addition of RAVEN-X IP Node to its family of video security solutions. The RAVEN-X uses Texas Instruments' TMS320DM642 processors to provide a quad channel MPEG-4 full D1 resolution surveillance sy ... read more |
| GDA Technologies Announces GRIO--Silicon IP Cores Based on Serial, Parallel RapidIO Technology |
April 26, 2004 -- GDA Technologies, Inc. has announced the availability of GRIO (GDA RapidIO controller IP cores) GRIO IP cores are fully compliant with the Serial and Parallel RapidIO specifications and are targeted for embedded, communications ... read more |
| Integrity RTOS Available for Freescale’s PowerQUICC III Integrated Communications Processors |
April 26, 2004 -- Green Hills Software, Inc.has announced that the Integrity RTOS is available for the PowerQUICC III MPC8560 and MPC8540 integrated communications processors from Freescale Semiconductor.
The PowerQUICC III integrated com ... read more |
| Tensilica's Xtensa Architecture Integrated into Stretch's Software-Configurable Processors |
April 26, 2004 -- Tensilica, Inc. and Stretch, Inc. announced that Stretch has licensed Tensilica Xtensa microprocessor technology and has integrated the Xtensa processor core into its software-configurable processor chips, the Stretch S5000 fam ... read more |
| Grant Martin Joins Tensilica as Chief Scientist |
April 23, 2004 -- Tensilica, Inc. today announced that Grant Martin has joined the company as Chief Scientist. A well-known expert in system-on-chip (SOC) design methodologies, Martin is responsible for leading Tensilica’s long-term SOC methodol ... read more |
| Magma Announces Formal Verification Product Quartz Formal, Based on IBM Technology |
April 22, 2004 -- Magma Design Automation, Inc. has announced Quartz Formal, a new formal verification product based on Boolean equivalence technology licensed from IBM. Quartz Formal joins QuickCap in Magma's suite of software products for sign ... read more |
| Green Hills Software’s RTOS to Support IBM’s PowerPC 970FX |
April 22, 2004 -- Green Hills Software, Inc. has announced Integrity RTOS support for the PowerPC 970FX microprocessor from IBM Microelectronics. The Integrity RTOS is one component of a royalty-free solution currently used by developers on the ... read more |
| NVIDIA Delivers Advanced Graphics Processor Designed Using Synopsys' Galaxy Design Platform |
April 21, 2004 -- Synopsys, Inc. today announced that NVIDIA Corp. has delivered its new GeForce 6800 graphics processing unit (GPU), which was designed with Synopsys' Galaxy Design Platform. The GeForce 6800, with 222 millions transistors, was ... read more |
| Nassda's CRITIC Timing Analysis Tool Adopted by NVIDIA |
April 21, 2004 -- Nassda Corp. today announced that NVIDIA Corp. has adopted Nassda's CRITIC timing analyzer to verify timing of high-frequency datapath and control logic for a next generation graphics processing unit (GPU) implemented using a c ... read more |
| Synopsys and ARM Team Up to Deliver System-Level Design Solution |
April 21, 2004 -- Synopsys, Inc. and ARM have announced the availability of a joint system-level design solution that enables earlier software development and verification of ARM Powered SoCs. The two companies have integrated ARM RealView Model ... read more |
| TI Brings Bluetooth and High-Quality Audio to Cellular Hands-Free Kit Systems through Comprehensive Development Platform |
April 21, 2004 -- Continuing to drive faster time-to- market for the development of hands-free kits, Texas Instruments, Inc. announced the Hands-Free Kit (HFK) Development Platform matched with a complete Bluetooth radio subsystem. The complete ... read more |
| TriQuint and Ansoft Release TQTRx Process Design Kit for Use with Ansoft Designer |
April 21, 2004 -- Ansoft Corp. and TriQuint Semiconductor, Inc. have announced the immediate availability of a new process design kit (PDK) supporting TriQuint's 0.6 µm MESFET three-metal-interconnect gallium arsenide (GaAs) IC process, TQTRx, f ... read more |
| Fabless Semiconductor Association Announces 6% Price Increase for 0.13-micron Process Technology Featured |
April 21, 2004 -- The Fabless Semiconductor Association (FSA) has announced the results of its quarterly "Wafer Fabrication and Assembly/Test Pricing Survey," analyzing the average price paid per wafer by 129 fabless companies and integrated de ... read more |
| Chipidea's USB 2.0 OTG High Speed IP Core on UMC's 0.13um Technology |
April 20, 2004 -- Chipidea Microelectronica, SA (Chipidea) and UMC today announced that Chipidea's CI12323ul USB High Speed OTG (On the Go) Physical Interface (PHY) IP core has achieved silicon verified "Silver" status in UMC's Gold IP program f ... read more |
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