| PLDA Collaborates with National Instruments to Unveil FPGA-Based PXI Express Development Kit |
August 4, 2006 -- PLDApplications (PLDA) will launch the PXIe XpressLite CY2 Development Kit for CompactPCI Express on August 8th during the 12th annual NIWeek worldwide virtual instrumentation conference and exhibition. The x1 Endpoint a ... read more |
| Fujitsu Microelectronics Solutions Selects Mentor Graphics Catapult Synthesis for Wireless Communication Applications |
August 2, 2006 -- Mentor Graphics Corp. today announced that Fujitsu Microelectronics Solutions, Ltd. (FMSL) has selected the Catapult Synthesis tool for use in wireless signal processing applications. After comparing multiple high-level ... read more |
| Texas Instruments Releases to Production PCI Express x1 Physical Layer Device |
August 2, 2006 -- Texas Instruments, Inc. (TI) announced today full-production release of its new PCI Express x1 physical layer (PHY) device, the XIO1100. The XIO1100 is targeted at markets demanding low-cost PCIe end-point solutions such ... read more |
| Atmel Adopts Configurable ARC Video Subsystem for Multimedia Handheld Devices |
August 2, 2006 -- ARC International today announced that Atmel Corp. has taken a license for the ARC Video Subsystem. The ARC Video Subsystem is based upon an ARC 700 family core that is coupled with the company's award winning si ... read more |
| MoSys Launches 65-nm Macro Program |
August 2, 2006 -- MoSys, Inc. announced today that it has completed the basic research and development work for porting MoSys' 1T-SRAM embedded memory technology to the advanced 65-nm semiconductor technology node and has initiated macro ... read more |
| Ansoft Releases ePhysics v2 |
August 2, 2006 -- Ansoft Corp. has announced the immediate availability of ePhysics v2. This latest version enhances ePhysics' 3D steady-state thermal, transient thermal and linear stress analyses coupling to HFSS and Maxwell 3D with dyna ... read more |
| Synopsys Extends Liberty Modeling Standard to Enable Variation-Aware Design Featured |
August 2, 2006 -- Synopsys, Inc. has announced new extensions to the Liberty library format, the de-facto open- source modeling standard for IC implementation and signoff. The new extensions facilitate variation-aware design, allowing eng ... read more |
| NEC Electronics Unveils Innovative System-in-Package Technology |
August 1, 2006 -- NEC Electronics Corp., and its subsidiary in North America, NEC Electronics America, Inc., have unveiled a new system-in-package (SiP) technology capable of stacking logic and gigabit-class memory in a single package to ... read more |
| Mentor Graphics Delivers First Hardware/Software Processor Support Package for the ARM Cortex-M3 Processor |
August 1, 2006 -- Mentor Graphics Corp. has announced the availability of the first Mentor processor support package for the ARM Cortex-M3 processor, which works with Mentor Graphics' Seamless tool to expose hardware/software integ ... read more |
| Wind River Contributes Over 300,000 Lines of Code to the Eclipse Foundation |
July 31, 2006 -- Wind River Systems, Inc. has announced the release of over 300,000 lines of code to the Eclipse Foundation to help make the restrictions associated with closed, proprietary developer tools a thing of the past. The ... read more |
| Siemens Expands Its Use of Cadence Incisive Formal Verifier to Improve Time to Market |
July 31, 2006 -- Cadence Design Systems, Inc. today announced that Siemens has expanded its deployment of the Cadence Incisive Formal Verifier into its design flow for assertion-based formal analysis. Using Incisive Formal Verifier, Sieme ... read more |
| Actel Broadens Support for CoreMP7-Based Designs with New SoftConsole Tool |
July 31, 2006 -- Actel Corp. has announced SoftConsole, a free software program development environment for Actel's CoreMP7 soft 32-bit ARM7 microprocessor core for FPGAs. Based on the widely used, open-source Eclipse Integrated Design En ... read more |
| Amalfi Semiconductor Turns to Cadence Kit to Speed Product Development for Cell Phones |
July 31, 2006 -- Cadence Design Systems, Inc. today announced that Amalfi Semiconductor, Inc. a developer of high-performance, CMOS radio frequency (RF) and mixed-signal semiconductors for the cellular industry, has utilized the Ca ... read more |
| New Wafer Fab Construction Soars in June Quarter Featured |
July 31, 2006 -- In its just published Quarterly Fab Report, Strategic Marketing Associates (SMA) forecasts 35 new wafer fabs will begin to ramp the industry's monthly capacity to a new high next year. As most of the new fabs that began c ... read more |
| Texas Instruments Provides OMAP-Vox Platform to Power the New SAGEM my700X Multimedia Handset |
July 27, 2006 -- Texas Instruments, Inc. (TI) today announced that Sagem Communication has chosen the OMAPV1030 chipset from TI's OMAP-Vox platform for its new my700X multimedia handset. Specifically designed to bring multimedia functio ... read more |
| ConfigCon Developer's Conference Brings Message of Configurability to China |
July 25, 2006 -- ARC International announced that the ConfigCon developers conference series will hold its next event in Shanghai, China on September 19, 2006 at the Sofitel Jin Jiang Hotel in Pudong. ConfigCon Shanghai will feature keyno ... read more |
| Concept Engineering Introduces SGvision Pro to Help System-on-Chip Designers Analyze and Debug Mixed-mode Circuits |
July 24, 2006 -- Concept Engineering GmbH has released SGvision Pro, a mixed-mode debugging tool that allows system-on-chip (SOC) designers and verification engineers to more quickly analyze and debug circuits that contain both digital an ... read more |
| Macraigor Systems Announces USB 2.0-based On-Chip Debug Support for Freescale ColdFire Processors |
July 24, 2006 -- Macraigor Systems, LLC has announced support for Freescale Semiconductor, Inc.’s ColdFire family of 32-bit microprocessors. Debugging and control of these processors will be supported by Macraigor’s usb2Demon backg ... read more |
| Virage Logic and MIPS Technologies Introduce New Core-Optimized IP Kits for MIPS32 24K, 24KE and 34K Core Families |
July 24, 2006 -- MIPS Technologies, Inc. and Virage Logic Corp. have announced the availability of new jointly-developed Core-Optimized IP Kits. Leveraging Virage Logic's Area, Speed and Power (ASAP) Memory and ASAP Logic High-Spee ... read more |
| Virage Logic Library Powers Socle's Structured ASIC Platforms |
July 24, 2006 -- Virage Logic Corp. today announced that Socle Technology Corp. has licensed the Area, Speed and Power (ASAP) Logic 130-nm Metal Programmable library to serve as crucial enabling technology for its recently announc ... read more |
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