| TI Introduces Fast 16-bit SAR ADC at 4MSPS |
June 26, 2006 -- Texas Instruments, Inc. (TI) today announced what the company claims is the industry's fastest 16-bit successive approximation register (SAR) analog-to-digital converter (ADC) which is 33% faster than the nearest competit ... read more |
| Entrepreneurs Launch Second EDA Company in Analog/Mixed-Signal Design Space |
June 26, 2006 -- Amit Gupta and Trent McConaghy today announced formation of a new EDA company, Solido Design Automation, Inc. Gupta and McConaghy were the co-founders of Analog Design Automation (which was acquired by Synopsys, Inc. in 2 ... read more |
| Sagantec Provides the "Missing Link" to a Complete DFM Solution |
June 26, 2006 -- Sagantec, Inc. has announced DFM-Fix, a tool that automatically optimizes design tape-out data to eliminate lithography related "hot spots." This will provide designers with a shorter path to high-yielding first silicon, ... read more |
| HyperTransport Consortium Announces New HTX OEM Reference Design Kit |
June 26, 2006 --The HyperTransport Consortium today announced that researchers at the University of Mannheim (Mannheim, Germany) have developed a highly programmable HTX OEM reference design kit. The kit is intended to facilitate the rapi ... read more |
| Freescale Supplies Hughes with ASICs for Next-Generation Satellite Broadband Modems |
June 26, 2006 -- Freescale Semiconductor, Inc. has leveraged its semi-custom ASIC design capabilities and analog/mixed signal expertise to deliver an advanced satellite broadband ASIC solution to Hughes Network Systems. The world's leadin ... read more |
| Exar Introduces 16-Mbps Dual UART Product Family |
June 26, 2006 -- Exar Corp. announced today a new UART product family, which at 16Mbps, makes the XR16V2x5x series the first in a new generation of feature rich devices supporting faster data rates required by telecommunications and Ether ... read more |
| Trident's HiDTV Powers New ATSC CRT TVs from Konka |
June 26, 2006 -- Trident Microsystems, Inc. and Konka Group, a leading television and mobile phone manufacturer in China, today announced one of China's leading television OEMs, has chosen Trident's HiDTV LX to power its new ATCS CRT TVs ... read more |
| Oki Electric Adopts Elliptic Semiconductor's Ttechnology for Comprehensive DTCP Rights Management Solution |
June 23, 2006 -- Elliptic Semiconductor today announced that Oki Electric Industry Co., Ltd. will be providing a digital rights management solution for its next generation SOC based on Elliptic's security solution. Oki's SOC integr ... read more |
| ArchPro Expands to New R&D Center in Bangalore |
June 23, 2006 -- ArchPro Design Automation, Inc. today announced a significant expansion with the opening of its new R&D Center in Bangalore, India. ArchPro develops EDA products for solving power management design challenges in IC/ SOC d ... read more |
| WiQuest Licenses Tensilica's Xtensa Processor for Low-Power Wireless USB Chip Design |
June 22, 2006 -- Tensilica, Inc. today announced that WiQuest Communications, Inc. has deployed the Xtensa configurable processor in WiQuest's WQST110 ultrawideband (UWB) wireless USB chip design. The WiQuest WQST110/ 101 chipset provides ... read more |
| austriamicrosystems' DFM Reference Design Flow Enables Optimization of Chip Performance and Robustness |
June 22, 2006 -- austriamicrosystems AG and MunEDA GmbH announced today the support of MunEDA's design for manufacturability and yield (DFM/DFY) tool, WiCkeD, as part of austriamicrosystems' DFM reference design flow. The further ... read more |
| Faraday High-Speed USB OTG PHY and Controller Solution Passes USB-IF Compliance Test |
June 22, 2006 -- Faraday Technology Corp. today announced its USB2.0 High-Speed (480Mbits/sec ) OTG Physical-Layer (PHY) IP and Controller IP have successfully passed the compliance tests in the USB Implementers Forum (USB-IF). Faraday's ... read more |
| Magma's QuickCap NX Selected by Pyxis to Verify Capacitance Rule Results for 2.5D Extractor |
June 22, 2006 -- Magma Design Automation, Inc. today announced that Pyxis Technology, a developer of DFM-aware routing software for sub-nanometer digital designs, utilized Magma's QuickCap NX 3D parasitic extractor/field solver fo ... read more |
| Renesas Electronics Develops 1-GHz Synthesizable DSP Core that Uses a Technique for High-Speed Operation |
June 22, 2006 -- Renesas Electronics Corp. has announced the development of a high-speed, low-power-consumption synthesizable DSP (digital signal processor) core for SOC devices. The DSP core uses a new saturation processing method with a ... read more |
| HDMI 1.3 Doubles Bandwidth, Broadens Color Space for HDTVs |
June 22, 2006 -- The seven HDMI Founder companies (Hitachi, Ltd., Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd. (Panasonic), Royal Philips Electronics, Silicon Image, Inc., Sony Corp., Thomson, Inc. and Toshiba Corp.) today released a major enhanceme ... read more |
| UMC's 65-nm Process Sees Widespread Acceptance |
June 22, 2006 -- UMC (United Microelectronics Corp.) today reported the progress of its 65-nm production ramp up. The process is seeing strong demand and interest from a variety of customers whose products span a wide range of semiconduc ... read more |
| Mentor DFT Tools Fully Support TSMC's Reference Flow 7.0 |
July 18, 2006 -- Mentor Graphics Corp. and Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company today announced that Mentor Graphics' entire design for test (DFT) tool suite is included in the TSMC Reference Flow 7.0, with YieldAssist joinin ... read more |
| Samsung Licenses National Semiconductor's PowerWise Power Management Technology |
June 21, 2006 -- National Semiconductor Corp. today announced that Samsung has become the first ARM Partner to publicly announce its license of the National Semiconductor PowerWise technology, specifically the Advanced Power Controller (APC). Th ... read more |
| MIPS Technologies Joins the SPIRIT Consortium |
June 21, 2006 -- MIPS Technologies, Inc. has joined the SPIRIT Consortium. Late last year, MIPS Technologies also became a charter member of the System RDL (Register Description Language) Alliance, a standards organization establis ... read more |
| Micron Technology and Lexar Media Announce Completion of Transaction |
June 21, 2006 -- Micron Technology, Inc. and Lexar Media, Inc. announced that the companies have completed their merger transaction for a total purchase price of approximately $850 million. With this acquisition, Micron becomes a vertical ... read more |
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