| AWR and TriQuint Announce Incentive Program for Building Cost-Effective GaAs MMIC Designs |
April 9, 2008 -- AWR Corp. and TriQuint Semiconductor, Inc. today announced Project JumpStart, a program designed to provide first-time AWR and TriQuint customers with a low-cost introduction to the benefits of design and fabricati ... read more |
| VIA Technologies' C7-M ULV Processor Powers New HP 2133 Mini-Note PC |
April 9, 2008 -- VIA Technologies, Inc. today announced that the low-power VIA C7-M ULV processor will be used to power the new HP 2133 Mini-Note PC, a sleek and stylish, small form factor notebook targeted at today's connected student li ... read more |
| Cypress Offers New HI-TECH Compiler with Free "Lite" Mode for PSoC Designer and PSoC Express Design Environments |
April 9, 2008 -- Cypress Semiconductor Corp. and HI-TECH Software have announced that version 9.61 of the HI-TECH C PRO compiler for the PSoC mixed-signal array family is available for all users. This new version includes a new "Li ... read more |
| Micrium Completes First Ports to Analog Devices' Blackfin Processors |
April 9, 2008 -- Micrium today announced that its uC/OS-II real time operating system (RTOS) and uC/TCP-IP network stack have been ported to Analog Devices, Inc.’s Blackfin family of microprocessors. The company’s uC/Probe monitoring tool ... read more |
| Atmel's AVR ONE! Improves Performance and Lowers Development Costs for 8- and 32-bit Microcontrollers |
April 8, 2008 -- Atmel Corp. has announced its AVR ONE! high-end debugger for AVR and AVR32 microcontrollers. This one high-end on-chip debugging platform for all AVR and AVR32 devices is available at $599 only while similar tools, accor ... read more |
| Silicon Creations Tapes Out Complete Mixed-Signal Chipset Using Simucad Design Flow |
April 8, 2008 -- Silicon Creations, a company that specializes in high performance analog and mixed-signal IC design, has taped out its first complex chipset using an all-Simucad Design Automation, Inc.'s tool flow. The Silicon Creations ... read more |
| Atmel and Melexis Introduce Highly Secure Cryptographic RFID Development Kit |
April 8, 2008 -- Atmel Corp. and Melexis Microelectronic Integrated Systems N.V. announced today their Yuma+ development kit for contactless, highly secure RFID transactions. The Yuma+ solution is based on Atmel's secure CryptoRF c ... read more |
| New X-FAB 0.18-Micron Process Maximizes Cost-Effectiveness in Analog/Mixed-Signal Chip Design |
April 8, 2008 -- X-FAB Semiconductor Foundries AG has announced availability of its new XH018 0.18-micron process, a cost-effective modular analog/mixed-signal process offering integrated digital, analog, high-voltage and embedded non-vol ... read more |
| Imagination Technologies Licenses Third PowerVR SGX Graphics Core to Renesas |
April 8, 2008 -- Imagination Technologies, Ltd. has reported that Renesas Electronics Corp. has licensed a third member of Imagination’s PowerVR SGX graphics core family under a multiple-use license arrangement. The core will be integrate ... read more |
| Alchip Licenses ARM CPU, Fabric IP and Physical IP to Provide SOC Solutions |
April 8, 2008 -- Alchip Technologies, Inc. and ARM today announced that Alchip has licensed the ARM926EJ-S processor, Fabric IP and ARM Physical IP. The licensing agreement will enhance Alchip's total ASIC solutions by providing fe ... read more |
| Mentor and Agilent Announce EDA Integrated Solution for RF-PCB Development |
April 8, 2008 --Mentor Graphics Corp. and Agilent Technologies, Inc. today announced a jointly developed solution that can significantly improve productivity for the design of RF circuits on printed circuit boards (PCBs). The indus ... read more |
| MunEDA and EDA Direct Close Distribution Agreement for Silicon Valley and California Semiconductor Market |
April 8, 2008 -- MunEDA GmbH and EDA Direct, Inc. have closed a distribution agreement for Silicon Valley and California to serve one of the most important parts of the worldwide semiconductor market. EDA Direct will handle existin ... read more |
| Si2 Announces the 12th Si2/OpenAccess+ Conference Featured |
April 7, 2008 -- The Silicon Integration Initiative, Inc. (Si2) announced that its 12th Si2/OpenAccess+ Conference will be held on April 16, at the DoubleTree Hotel in San Jose, Calif. The conference will feature speakers and demonstratio ... read more |
| Xilinx Introduces Industry's Highest Performance, Largest Capacity FPGAs for Space Applications |
April 7, 2008 -- Xilinx, Inc. has announced the immediate availability of radiation-tolerant Xilinx Virtex-4QV FPGAs. The new Virtex-4QV family is the first FPGA solution for space applications to offer multiple platforms optimized to mee ... read more |
| Virage Logic Delivers Complete Memory Compiler and Logic Library IP Portfolio for TSMC 40-nm Process |
April 7, 2008 -- Virage Logic Corp. has announced the availability of memory compilers and logic libraries for TSMC’s 40-nm process. The new SiWare product portfolio provides semiconductor companies with 40-nm physical IP that is designed ... read more |
| NXP and CoWare Establish Strategic Relationship for Company Wide Deployment of ESL Technologies |
April 7, 2008 -- CoWare, Inc. has established a new strategic relationship with NXP Semiconductors to deploy ESL technologies. The strategic, multi-year relationship covers a broad spectrum of ESL technologies from CoWare as well a ... read more |
| STARC Adopts Cadence Encounter Timing System for Static Timing Analysis Signoff |
April 7, 2008 -- Cadence Design Systems, Inc. today announced that Japan's Semiconductor Technology Academic Research Center (STARC) has incorporated the Cadence Encounter Timing System as part of its PRIDE V2.0 reference design fl ... read more |
| Altera Broadens Markets for Arria GX Family |
April 7, 2008 -- Altera Corp. today announced its Arria GX FPGA family now offers support for transceiver speeds up to 3.125Gbps, additional serial protocols and reduced static power. Based on the proven Stratix II GX technology, Arria GX ... read more |
| Seiko NPC Boosts Productivity in DFT Design Flow with Integrated Cadence Test and Synthesis Technologies |
April 7, 2008 -- Cadence Design Systems, Inc. today announced that Seiko NPC Corp. successfully taped out a complex audio DSP design using Cadence Encounter Test Architect and Encounter RTL Compiler global synthesis technologies. Using th ... read more |
| Altium Expands Versatility of Altium Innovation Station |
April 4, 2008 -- Altium, Ltd. has expanded its range of daughter boards for the Altium Innovation Station and its Desktop NanoBoard with the released of a new plug-in daughter board hosting a Xilinx Virtex-4 high-performance FPGA. It join ... read more |
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