| New Lattice ispClock Family Provides a Standard Clock Distribution Solution Across Multiple Designs |
April 24, 2006 -- Lattice Semiconductor Corp. has announced the first member of its new ispClock5300S family of in-system programmable, zero-delay, single-ended universal buffer devices. The 12-output E2CMOS-based ispClock5300S devices su ... read more |
| Xilinx and 4i2i Demonstrate H.264/AVC High Profile Decoder in an FPGA |
April 24, 2006 -- Xilinx, Inc. and MB>4i2i Communications, Ltd. today announced one of the first demonstrations of an FPGA-based H.264/AVC high profile real-time video decoder at the National Association of Broadcasters (NAB) Confere ... read more |
| Xilinx Enables New Multi-Function Digital Video Broadcast Mobile Product |
April 24, 2006 -- Xilinx, Inc. and Screen Service Broadcasting Technologies, SpA today announced that the Italian developer of advanced broadcasting equipment utilized the Xilinx Virtex-4 and Spartan-3 FPGA families in its new digital vid ... read more |
| Xilinx, Ateme Demonstrate New Real-Time MPEG-4 Video Encoder in a Single FPGA |
April 24, 2006 -- Xilinx, Inc. and Ateme have demonstrated a new H.264/AVC real-time Standard Definition at Main Profile video encoder at the National Association of Broadcasters (NAB) Conference in Las Vegas. The MPEG-4 encoder le ... read more |
| Altera Speeds Time-to-Market and Improves Performance for Video and Image Processing Applications |
April 24, 2006 -- Altera Corp. has announced a comprehensive, high-performance FPGA solution for designers of video and image processing applications. Comprising intellectual property (IP) cores, development kits, FPGAs and reference desi ... read more |
| New Cadence Incisive Enterprise Technology Eases Creation of Verification Scenarios |
April 24, 2006 -- Cadence Design Systems, Inc. has extended the Incisive Enterprise Family of verification technology by releasing the Cadence Incisive Enterprise Scenario Builder, a new technology that boosts team resource utilization an ... read more |
| Chartered Expands Foundry Market Access to IBM’s 90-nm SOI Technology |
April 21, 2006 – Chartered Semiconductor Manufacturing has licensed the 90-nm silicon-on-insulator (SOI) technology from IBM. The agreement enables Chartered to expand the use of the technology to areas such as consumer, multi-media, comm ... read more |
| Impinj and NEC Partner to Deliver High-Performance Gen 2 RFID Readers in Japan |
April 21, 2006 -- Impinj, Inc. and NEC TOKIN Corp. today announced an agreement to co-develop RFID readers for the Japanese market. Under the agreement, Impinj will adapt its Speedway Gen 2 RFID readers to conform to Japanese radio ... read more |
| Cypress Completes Video Interface Solution with Introduction of High-Performance HD/SD Multi-Format Video Cable Drivers |
April 21, 2006 -- Cypress Semiconductor Corp. has introduced two HD/SD multi-format video cable drivers for video distribution amplifiers, production routers and switchers, A/D and D/A converters, and other professional broadcast equipmen ... read more |
| ESS Technology Licenses MIPS32 24Kc Core from MIPS Technologies |
April 21, 2006 -- MIPS Technologies, Inc. today announced that ESS Technology, Inc., a provider of high-performance digital video processors and image sensor semiconductors, has licensed the MIPS32 24Kc core. Using the MIPS32 24Kc core le ... read more |
| Astute Networks Validates new Processor with Carbon's VSP |
April 21, 2006 -- Carbon Design Systems, Inc. has anounced that Astute Networks' success in validating both its embedded firmware and hardware, for its next generation Athens storage processor chip utilizing Carbon's VSP product. V ... read more |
| Chartered and Microsoft Sign 65-nm Manufacturing Agreement for Xbox 360 CPU |
April 21, 2006 -- Chartered Semiconductor Manufacturing has signed an agreement with Microsoft for the manufacturing of CPU products - using 65-nm silicon-on-insulator (SOI) semiconductor technology - for Microsoft’s Xbox 360 game console ... read more |
| Ashling Microsystems to Develop Smart Card IC Development Tools for SST's Theseus Titanium Devices |
April 20, 2006 -- Silicon Storage Technology, Inc. (SST) and Ashling Microsystems, Ltd. today announced the two companies are working in cooperation to produce a range of development tools for SST's Theseus Titanium smart card devices. Under ter ... read more |
| Fraunhofer IIS is Licensing MPEG-4 Audio Codecs to Comrex |
April 20, 2006 -- Comrex, a manufacturer of professional broadcasting equipment, is licensing Fraunhofer IIS implementations of two efficient audio compression technologies standardized in MPEG-4. By integrating MPEG-4 High Efficiency Adv ... read more |
| Mentor Graphics Opens Design Laboratory at Russian University |
April 20, 2006 -- Mentor Graphics Corp. has announced the opening of a new Mentor-sponsored electronic design laboratory at the Moscow Institute of Electronic Technology (MIET) in Zelenograd, Russia. MIET is one of the leading Russian uni ... read more |
| Digital Core Design Announces New and Improved Floating Point Coprocessor |
April 20, 2006 -- Digital Core Design's DFPMU floating point coprocessor directly replaces C software functions by equivalent, very fast hardware operations, which significantly accelerate system performance. It does not require any pro ... read more |
| Atmel Launches High-performance and Flexible RF Front-end Solutions for DAB and T-DMB Applications |
April 20, 2006 -- Atmel Corp. has announced today the availability of two new front-end devices, the ATR2732 and ATR2733, for DAB (Digital Audio Broadcast) and T-DMB (Terrestrial Digital Multimedia Broadcast) applications. The dual-band A ... read more |
| Agere Systems Standardizes on Cadence Virtuoso and Incisive Palladium Technologies to Speed Time to Market for 90- and 65-nm Semiconductors |
April 19, 2006 -- Cadence Design Systems, Inc. today announced that Agere Systems, Inc. has standardized on the Cadence Virtuoso custom design platform for its custom, analog and mixed-signal design needs. Agere's design teams pl ... read more |
| ARM and TSMC Sign Long-Term Physical IP Agreement for 65- and 45-nm Technologies |
April 19, 2006 -- ARM and TSMC (Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company) have agreed to extend the companies' long-term relationship to development of a new suite of ARM Advantage products, part of its family of Artisan physical ... read more |
| Lattice Announces Automotive Grade, AEC-Q100 Certified Programmable Logic Product Families |
April 19, 2006 -- Lattice Semiconductor Corp. today announced that automotive versions of its MachXO Crossover Programmable Logic Devices and ispMACH 4000V CPLD devices have been characterized and qualified to meet the certification requi ... read more |
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