| OCP-IP Releases New OCP Checker as Part of CoreCreator II Tool |
November 24, 2008 -- OCP International Partnership (OCP-IP) and Sonics, Inc. have announced the addition of an enhanced OCP protocol checker to the CoreCreator II verification tool. The tool enables users to quickly and efficiently ... read more |
| Synopsys Unveils IP OEM Partner Program with Arrow Electronics, Global Unichip and Open-Silicon |
November 24, 2008 -- Synopsys, Inc. has announced the launch of its IP OEM partner program with leading fabless ASIC companies and supply channel partners. Arrow Electronics, Inc and Global Unichip Corp. (GUC) join Open-Silicon, an early ... read more |
| Tensilica HiFi 2 Audio DSP Supports Dolby's aacPlusin DAB+ Decoder |
November 24, 2008 -- Tensilica, Inc. has added the aacPlus by Dolby for Digital Audio Broadcasting (DAB+) decoder to its audio codec library for its Xtensa HiFi 2 Audio DSP, one of the most popular commercial audio cores for system-on-chi ... read more |
| Teridian Semiconductor Licenses ColdFire Architecture from IPextreme |
November 24, 2008 -- IPextreme, Inc. today announced that Teridian Semiconductor Corp., a supplier of mixed-signal ICs used in energy, automation, networking, and secure access systems, has licensed Freescale’s V2 SPP IP core thro ... read more |
| ARM Unveils IP Portfolio Program |
November 24, 2008 -- ARM has announced the ARM IP Portfolio Program, a new business and engagement model for companies offering custom ASIC design services. The initiative provides access to a comprehensive range of ARM IP and an opportun ... read more |
| JEDA Launches First Commercial TLM2.0 Compliance Checker |
November 24, 2008 -- JEDA Technologies, Inc. today announced the availability of its TLM-2.0 Compliance Checker for high-level SystemC models. The TLM-2.0 Compliance Checker is part of the JEDA TLM-2.0 Validation Suite. The product target ... read more |
| Staccato Announces Merger with Artimi and Secures New Financing |
November 24, 2008 -- Staccato Communications has completed a merger with Artimi, Inc.. Under the terms of the agreement, the combined entity will maintain the Staccato Communications name. Staccato also announced that it has closed ... read more |
| PowerVR SGX520 OpenGL ES 2.0 Core Achieves Khronos Conformance |
November 24, 2008 -- Imagination Technologies, Ltd. has announced that its PowerVR SGX520 graphics processor core has achieved conformance with the Khronos OpenGL ES 2.0 standard.
According to Imagination, the PowerVR SGX520 is the ... read more |
| Tektronix Delivers Oscilloscopes at Entry-Level Prices for Mixed-Signal Designs |
November 20, 2008 -- Tektronix, Inc. has announced the new MSO2000 Mixed Signal and DPO2000 Digital Phosphor oscilloscopes. The new series provide powerful tools to simplify the debug of mixed-signal designs and includes Wave Inspector se ... read more |
| New TI Digital Media Processor Provides H.264 at D1 Resolution for Professional Quality Video on Low-Cost Consumer Video Products |
November 20, 2008 -- Texas Instruments, Inc. (TI) has announced its newest digital media processor based on DaVinci technology, the TMS320DM357. The DM357 is a low-cost, ARM-based processor that includes a royalty-free H.264 codec at D1 r ... read more |
| Tektronix Leverages Altera HardCopy II Devices to Reduce Time-to-Market of New Oscilloscope Series by 20% |
November 20, 2008 -- Altera Corp. announced today that its HardCopy II ASICs enabled Tektronix, Inc. to reduce the development time of its latest oscilloscopes by 20%. Using the II system development methodology instead of a standard-cel ... read more |
| Synopsys Unveils Modeling Technology to Address Library Data Size Explosion at 45-nm and Below |
November 20, 2008 -- Synopsys, Inc. has announced the introduction of breakthrough Composite Current Source (CCS) base curve modeling technology that reduces digital cell library file size by up to 75%t while improving application tool ru ... read more |
| Magma Sets Dates and Locations for Worldwide MUSIC User Conferences |
November 20, 2008 -- Magma Design Automation, Inc. has announced dates and locations for the 2009 MUSIC user conferences. MUSIC Silicon Valley will be held April 2 in Santa Clara and MUSIC India will be held April 16 in Bangalore. To acco ... read more |
| Lattice Enhances Hardened SPI4.2 Solution Portfolio |
November 20, 2008 -- Lattice Semiconductor Corp. announced todaythat its LatticeSCM FPGA family-based SPI4.2 MACO (Masked Array for Cost Optimization) cores have been enhanced by adding link layer buffer management options. The LatticeS ... read more |
| National Instruments Addresses Memory Management in C Programming with NI LabWindows/ CVI 9.0 |
November 19, 2008 -- Corp. has announced LabWindows/ CVI 9.0, the latest version of the proven ANSI C development environment for building reliable test and measurement solutions. It includes an improved compiler and debugger, which spee ... read more |
| Xilinx Releases Complete Digital Front-End Design to Accelerate Development of 3GPP LTE Radios for Wireless Base Stations |
November 20, 2008 -- Xilinx, Inc. today announced the immediate availability of a complete Digital Front End (DFE) design optimized for faster, lower-cost development of 3rd Generation Partnership Protocol (3GPP) Long Term Evolution (LTE) ... read more |
| Blue Pearl Softwares Version 4.0 of Cobalt Timing Constraint Generation Speeds Timing Closure |
November 19, 2008 -- Blue Pearl Software, Inc. has released Version 4.0 of its Cobalt timing constraint generation solution. This new release of Cobalt expands the tool’s capabilities to include improved generation of multi-cycle paths in ... read more |
| Actel Leverages UMC Foundry Solutions for 65-nm eFlash FPGAs |
November 19, 2008 -- Actel Corp. and UMC (United Microelectronics Corp.) today announced that the two companies have cooperated for the production of Actel’s next-generation flash-based FPGAs (field programmable gate array). The ch ... read more |
| ASMedia Licenses Range of MIPS Cores for Multimedia SOC Development |
November 19, 2008 -- MIPS Technologies, Inc. today announced that ASMedia Technology, Inc. licensed several of its synthesizable processor cores to develop multimedia SOCs for digital consumer devices. An existing MIPS licensee, AS ... read more |
| Carbon and Tensilica Partner for Pre-Silicon Firmware Development |
November 19, 2008 -- Carbon Design Systems and Tensilica, Inc. have partnered to integrate Tensilica’s processor models into the Carbon SoC Designer virtual platform. Tensilica processors are fully integrated with SoC Designer and ... read more |
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