| Xilinx Delivers 65-nm Virtex-5 LX330 Featured |
December 29, 2006 -- Xilinx, Inc. has shipped the industry's largest FPGA. Developed using an advanced power-saving 65-nm process technology, the Virtex-5 LX330 FPGA delivers 65% more logic than the largest 90-nm FPGAs. Xilinx ... read more |
| Crossware Enhances ARM Development Suite with Support for More NXP Chips |
December 29, 2006 -- Crossware Products has added support to its ARM Development Suite for 21 more NXP Semiconductor ARM-based microcontrollers. All of NXP's LPC21xx and LPC22xx chips are now supported. A number of the newly supported chi ... read more |
| Forte Closes Financing Round for ESL Synthesis Business Expansion |
December 20, 2006 -- Forte Design Systems, Inc. has closed a series D round of financing in the amount of $5.4 million. Saints Capital joined 3i Corporation and Infinity Capital as the major institutional investors in the company. This ne ... read more |
| Cypress Introduces Five New PSoC Development and Evaluation Kits |
December 20, 2006 -- Cypress Semiconductor Corp. has introduced five new development and evaluation kits for its PSoC mixed-signal arrays. The kits give designers easy-to-use tools to quickly and efficiently complete PSoC designs for a variety o ... read more |
| Faraday Adds Fast Ethernet PHY and Controller Cores to Its IP Portfolio |
December 19, 2006 -- Faraday Technology Corp. today announced the availability of its licensable 10 /100/1000 Ethernet controller and 10/100 fast Ethernet PHY cores for UMC's 90-nm, 0.13-µm , and 0.18-µm ,processes. With thorough consider ... read more |
| Analog Devices Targets HDTV and Portable High-Definition Video by Expanding Its Line of HDMI Components |
December 19, 2006 -- Analog Devices, Inc. (ADI) is continuing to expand its line of HDMI interface ICs with the availability of HDMI v1.3-compatible multiplexer, receiver and transmitter circuits. The portfolio of HDMI (High-Definition Mu ... read more |
| ARM Announces First Production-Ready DDR1 And DDR2 Memory Interface IP on TSMC 90-nm Process |
December 19, 2006 -- ARM has announced the availability of the ARM Velocity DDR1 and DDR2 (1/2) memory interface in its Artisan physical IP family to support TSMC's 90-nm general-purpose process. The ARM Velocity DDR1/2 memory inte ... read more |
| ARM Cortex Processors Chosen by TI for Use in Critical Automotive Applications |
December 19, 2006 -- The ARM Cortex-M3 and Cortex-R4 processors have been selected by Texas Instruments, Inc. (TI) for use in its TMS470 and TMS570 MCU platforms, respectively. The microcontroller platforms offer automakers and OEM ... read more |
| Atmel Offers New AVR Microcontrollers with Integrated LCD Controllers and picoPower Technology |
December 19, 2006 -- Atmel Corp. has introduced four new AVR microcontrollers that incorporate power-saving technology for multi-year battery life in LCD, lighting control, security, home automation, ZigBee and other battery applications. ... read more |
| Cadence Enhances Encounter RTL Compiler |
December 19, 2006 -- Cadence Design Systems, Inc. has announced enhancements to the Cadence Encounter RTL Compiler solution with advanced global synthesis technology. The new Encounter RTL Compiler version 6.2 – available in L, XL, ... read more |
| Samsung Adopts Silicon Laboratories Aero IIe EDGE Transceiver |
December 19, 2006 -- Silicon Laboratories, Inc. today announced that Samsung has selected the Aero IIe EDGE transceiver for multiple handset platforms. The Aero IIe transceiver is a high-performance RF transceiver for GSM/GPRS/EDGE handse ... read more |
| Wipro Becomes Tensilica Processor Core Design Center Partner |
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December 19, 2006 -- Wipro Technologies has become Tensilica, Inc.'s newest processor core design center partner. As a Tensilica design center and Tensilica Xtensions Network partner, Wipro will combine its extensive intellectual ... read more |
| Lattice and Anagram Will Provide Crystal Clear Audio Solutions to the Consumer Market |
December 19, 2006 -- Lattice Semiconductor Corp. has announced the availability of intellectual property (IP) cores for a high definition audio digital to analog converter, the SoftDAC, and a digital amplifier, the SoftAMP, from Anagram T ... read more |
| High Frequency 400-mA Step-Down Converter Enables Smallest Solution Size |
December 19, 2006 -- Advanced Analogic Technologies, Inc. today announced the AAT1149, a new, high performance, 400-mA step-down converter. Developed with space-constrained portable applications in mind, the new fast transient converter e ... read more |
| Cadence Incisive Formal Verifier Helps UPEK Improve Design Team Productivity |
December 19, 2006 -- Cadence Design Systems, Inc. today announced that UPEK, Inc., a leader in biometric fingerprint security solutions, has chosen to implement the Cadence Incisive Formal Verifier into its overall design flow for asserti ... read more |
| Zuken Makes Investment in Rio Design Automation; Second Round of Funding Brings Total Raised to $8.25 Million |
December 19, 2006 -- Rio Design Automation, Inc. announced that Zuken, Ltd. has been added to its list of investors that includes Cadence Design Systems, Inc., Magma Design Automation, Inc. and angel investors Andreas Bechtolsheim ... read more |
| IDT and Xelerated Continue Collaboration to Enable Rich Support of Advanced Services in 10 Gbps Ethernet Applications |
December 19, 2006 -- Integrated Device Technology, Inc. (IDT) today announced that its application-optimized network search accelerator is being used by Xelerated, Inc. on its reference boards to demonstrate advanced, wirespeed metro Ethe ... read more |
| SiCortex Licenses MIPS64 Architecture for Low-Power, High-Performance Teraflop Computing Featured |
December 19, 2006 -- MIPS Technologies, Inc. today announced that SiCortex, Inc. has licensed MIPS' 64-bit architecture for its new generation of high-performance, low-power Linux teraflop computers. The SiCortex SC5832 is an enterprise-c ... read more |
| Broadcom Announces All-DSP-Based 10 Gigabit Ethernet Serial Transceiver with New Equalizer Technology |
December 19, 2006 -- Broadcom Corp. has announced the BCM8706 10GbE (SFP+ to XAUI), a new 10 Gigabit Ethernet (10GbE) physical layer (PHY) device that leverages its field proven digital signal processing (DSP) technology. The first all-DS ... read more |
| Denali Launches MLC NAND Flash Solutions for SOC Designs |
December 18, 2006 -- Denali Software, Inc. today announced its Databahn NAND Flash Controller IP product for high-capacity multi-level cell (MLC) and traditional single-level cell (SLC) NAND Flash memories. The Databahn NAND Flash control ... read more |
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