| SoC Solutions Builds FPGA System in Record Time Using Synopsys' ReadyIP Flow and CAST IP Cores |
June 5, 2008 -- CAST, Inc. and technical partner SoC Solutions, LLC recently proved the effectiveness of a new FPGA design capability from Synopsys’ Synplicity Business Group by developing a complete 32-bit processor-based system i ... read more |
| STMicroelectronics' New Voltage Supervisors Ensure System Integrity in Multi-Voltage Systems |
June 5, 2008 -- STMicroelectronics has introduced the STM6904/5 four- and five-channel voltage supervisors that save space, cost and power, while ensuring the integrity of multi-voltage systems such as set-top boxes, telecom and networkin ... read more |
| SynTest Hybrid Solution Enhances Design Quality and Pattern Compactness |
June 5, 2008 -- SynTest Technologies, Inc. has announced optimization of the test patterns generated by its DFT tools by integrating the SynTest Patents for Staggered Capture technologies.
Since 2005, SynTest has received many pate ... read more |
| Tensilica and SPIRIT DSP Form Strategic Partnership and Deliver Mobile Multimedia Audio and Voice for Xtensa HiFi 2 Audio Engine |
June 5, 2008 -- SPIRIT DSP and Tensilica, Inc. have formed a strategic partnership and can now deliver 18 optimized, high-quality digital audio and voice software packages that run on Tensilica’s HiFi 2 Audio Engine, an increasingl ... read more |
| Enea and CEVA Announce Enea OSE ck RTOS for CEVA-X and CEVA-TeakLite-III DSP Architectures |
June 5, 2008 -- Enea and CEVA, Inc. have announced the availability of the Enea OSEck real-time operating system (RTOS) for two CEVA DSP architectures: the CEVA-TeakLite-III and the CEVA-X. These two low-power, high-performance DSP ... read more |
| Catalyst Semiconductor Launches Lower Power 8-Bit I2C/SMBus I/O Expander |
June 5, 2008 -- Catalyst Semiconductor, Inc. has expanded its line of bus products with the CAT9534, an 8-bit general purpose input/output (GPIO) expander for I2C and SMBus-based systems. The CAT9534 is pin-for-pin and functionally compat ... read more |
| ARM, Renesas Electronics and Synopsys Define Industry's First Low-Power Verification Methodology |
June 4, 2008 -- Synopsys, Inc. today announced that it has collaborated with ARM and Renesas Electronics to define the industry's first methodology to address the rapidly increasing complexity of low power verification. The companies hav ... read more |
| ARM Multiprocessing Technology Powers NVIDIA Tegra Mobile Computer-on-a-Chip |
June 4, 2008 -- ARM today announced that the new NVIDIA Tegra mobile computer-on-a-chip is based on the ARM11 MPCore multicore processor technology. As the smallest, full HD computer-on-a-chip, the NVIDIA Tegra is highly optimized for ne ... read more |
| ARC Announces Partnership with ViXS Systems |
June 4, 2008 -- ARC International announced today that ViXS Systems, Inc. has taken a license for ARC's multimedia solutions for use in its XCode chipset family. ViXS Systems is a fabless semiconductor company enabling advanced vi ... read more |
| AMCC and Silicon Image Announce Strategic Alliance on Network Attached Storage Solutions Based on AMCC Power Architecture Processors |
June 4, 2008 -- Applied Micro Circuits Corp. (AMCC) and Silicon Image, Inc. have announced a working alliance to provide Network Attached Storage (NAS) reference designs based on AMCC Power Architecture based processors and Silicon ... read more |
| Altos’ Cell Characterization Tools Used for TSMC’s 40-nm Libraries |
June 4, 2008 -- Altos Design Automation, Inc. announced that its cell characterization tools are used for TSMC’s 40-nm standard cell library development. TSMC uses the Altos tools to characterize its 40G and 40LP low-power libraries. Sp ... read more |
| Aldec Releases Riviera-PRO 2008.06 HDL Simulator |
June 4, 2008 -- Aldec, Inc. has just released Riviera-PRO 2008.06, a behavioral, structural and mixed HDL language simulator for multi-million gate ASIC and FPGA designs. Riviera-PRO 2008.06 includes Verilog simulation performance enhance ... read more |
| Holly Stump Joins Envis as VP Marketing |
June 4, 2008 -- Envis Corp. has announced that industry and low-power (but high-powered) marketing veteran Holly Stump has joined Envis as its Vice President of Marketing. Stump, with more than 20 years in EDA and high technology, ... read more |
| Liga Systems Announces Availability of NitroSIM v1.0 |
June 4, 2008 -- Liga Systems, Inc. today announced availability of NitroSIM release 1.0. Powered by its VLIW coprocessor optimized for digital logic simulation, NitroSIM v1.0 compiles gate-level netlists to accelerate digital logic simul ... read more |
| Broadcom Announces 65-nm Single-Chip Bluetooth 2.1 + EDR Solution for Mobile Handsets |
June 4, 2008 -- Broadcom Corp. today announced its next generation Bluetooth Version 2.1 + EDR single-chip solution that provides significant performance upgrades and enhanced features, including lower power consumption, smaller chip size ... read more |
| Virage Logic Supports TSMC’s Power Trim Service for Advanced Process Nodes |
| June 4, 2008 -- Virage Logic Corp. is the first IP provider to support TSMC’s Power Trim Service. The "Power Trim compliant" Virage Logic IP can enable significant power leakage reduction through TSMC’s Power Trim Service without area penalt ... read more |
| GCT Semiconductor Announces Mobile WiMAX IEEE 802.16e Wave 2 Compliant 3.5 GHz Monolithic Single-Chip Solution |
June 4, 2008 -- GCT Semiconductor is sampling the first mobile WiMAX 3.5-GHz Wave 2 single-chip, GDM7213, which includes RF, MAC and PHY, all into one monolithic IC. Based on GCT’s CMOS RF technologies, the GDM7213 implements MIMO, and al ... read more |
| The MathWorks Real-Time Workshop Embedded Coder Validated by TUV Rheinland |
June 4, 2008 -- The MathWorks, Inc. today announced that its Real-Time Workshop Embedded Coder product for MathWorks Release R2007b successfully passed the Automotive Code Validation Suite (AVS). AVS provides an independent test suite for ... read more |
| Marvell's Shiva CPU Technology Combines Gigahertz-Class Performance with Ultra-Low Power Consumption |
June 4, 2008 -- Marvell today introduced Shiva, the company's next-generation internally developed CPU technology for embedded CPU applications. Shiva will be integrated in a broad range of Marvell system-on-chip (SOC) products spanning m ... read more |
| MediaTek Achieves Faster Time-to-Tapeout Utilizing Smart Hierarchical Modeling in Synopsys IC Compiler |
June 4, 2008 -- Synopsys, Inc. today announced that MediaTek, Inc. has adopted Synopsys' IC Compiler for its next-generation, high-performance 65-nm system-on-chip (SOC) designs. IC Compiler was recently used to complete a hierarch ... read more |
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