| ClearSpeed Technology Uses ACE's CoSy for Parallelizing Software Compiler |
| January 18, 2008 – ACE Associated Compiler Experts bv has announced that its compiler development system CoSy has been successfully used by ClearSpeed Technology, Inc. in the development of a high-performance, parallelizing compiler f ... read more |
| Micrel Announces New Low-Cost Dual-Channel Hot-Plug Power Controllers |
January 18, 2008 -- Micrel, Inc. today launched the MIC2341 and MIC2342. The devices are dual-channel hot-plug power controllers that support the power requirements for PCI Express Specification v2.0. The MIC2341 and MIC2342 augment Micre ... read more |
| picoChip Introduces TD-SCDMA Femtocell Reference Design |
January 18, 2008 -- picoChip Designs, Ltd. has today the PC8808 TD-SCDMA femtocell reference design, the first to support this standard. Femtocells (or 3G access points) are low-cost basestations optimized for deployment inside buildings ... read more |
| Esterel Studio Adopted at STMicroelectronics for Design of STBus- and STNoC-Based Control-Intensive IP |
January 18, 2008 -- Esterel Technologies today announced that STMicroelectronics has applied Esterel Studio for the design of new components for the STBus and ST Network-on-Chip (STNoC) within ST’s On-Chip Communication Systems (OC ... read more |
| Synfora Integrates PICO Express with CoWare ESL 2.0 Solutions |
January 18, 2008 -- Synfora, Inc. has announced that its models are now plug-and-play with the Platform Architect design environment from CoWare, Inc., the leading supplier of platform-driven electronic system-level (ESL) design so ... read more |
| CSR Selects Ponte's YA System to Boost Its DFM Strategy |
January 18, 2008 -- Ponte Solutions, Inc. today announced its YA System has been adopted by CSR, a provider of wireless silicon technology. CSR has chosen to use Ponte’s YA System to perform design-for-manufacturing (DFM) analysis on its ... read more |
| STMicroelectronics Introduces 24-bit Hi-Fi Audio-Quality DAC for Mobile Music Applications |
January 18, 2008 -- STMicroelectronics today announced a very high-performance 24-bit audio digital-to-analog converter (DAC) that offers 103-dB dynamic range across the entire audio path. Aimed at the mobile music market, the new STw5200 ... read more |
| Mentor Graphics Nucleus OS Offers Seamless User Experience for Multimedia Devices |
January 16, 2008 -- Mentor Graphics Corp. has announced availability of Nucleus OS with the new Safe File System capability. The software provides virtually 100% power-fail resiliency required in highly reliable multimedia devices with re ... read more |
| Future Waves Selects Berkeley Design Automation Analog FastSpice for Full-Circuit RF-CMOS Tuner IC Verification |
January 15, 2008 -- Berkeley Design Automation, Inc. today announced that Future Waves Pte, Ltd., a fabless manufacturer of RF and mixed-signal ICs for next generation digital communication and broadcast technologies, has selected ... read more |
| X-FAB Achieves Major Milestone While Transforming Its Malaysian Operation Into Analog/Mixed-Signal Fab |
January 15, 2008 -- X-FAB Silicon Foundries AG has announced a major milestone in its process of transforming the X-FAB Sarawak, Malaysia, facility into an analog/ mixed-signal foundry operation. Within 15 months of closing the merger tha ... read more |
| MultiChoice Licenses onHandTV from S3 |
| January 15, 2008 -- Silicon & Software Systems, Ltd. (S3) today announced that pay-television operator MultiChoice has licensed S3’s onHandTV Software Development Kit (SDK) for DVB-H to further develop its interactive Mobile Broadcast TV ... read more |
| Xilinx EDK Delivers Processing Peripheral IP Cores at No Additional Cost |
January 15, 2008 -- Xilinx, Inc. has expanded its catalog of no-fee intellectual property (IP) cores for designing embedded processing systems with Xilinx platform FPGAs. The 10/100 Ethernet MAC Lite, single precision floating-point unit, ... read more |
| ChipX Achieves PCI Express Compliance Certification |
January 15, 2008 -- ChipX Corp. today announced that it has passed full PCI Express (PCIe) compliance at the December 2007 PCI-SIG compliance workshop in Milpitas, California. The certification gives designers confidence that their ASIC, ... read more |
| Exar Adds 5-V RS-485/RS-422 Half-Duplex Transceiver |
January 15, 2008 -- Exar Corp. has released the SP4082E, a new highly integrated 5-V RS-485/RS-422 half duplex transceiver which complements Exar's SP308x family of transceivers. The SP4082E, when added to Exar's full serial transceiver ... read more |
| imec Speeds Scalable Video Decoder by a 20X |
January 15, 2008 -- imec has further improved its source-code for standard-compliant Scalable Video Decoding (SVC = H.264 extension), now performing 20 times faster and using only a tenth of the memory footprint compared to the SVC standa ... read more |
| Freescale Establishes Advanced 200-mm MEMS Production Line |
January 14, 2008 -- Freescale Semiconductor, Inc. has established an advanced microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) 200-mm (8-inch) production line. The newly added line at Freescale's Oak Hill Fab in Austin, Texas, complements the compan ... read more |
| eSilicon Acquires SwitchCore's Product Lines |
January 14, 2008 -- eSilicon Corp. has acquired the existing product lines and certain assets of SwitchCore AB, a provider of high-performance Ethernet network switching chips. As a result of the asset acquisition, eSilicon will assume re ... read more |
| Silicon Labs Introduces Fully Integrated AM/FM Radio Receivers with Weather Band Coverage |
January 14, 2008 -- Silicon Laboratories, Inc. has announced fully integrated AM/FM radio receivers with weather band (WB) coverage. In addition to receiving AM/FM bands, the Si4736 family covers the frequencies between 162.40 and 162.55M ... read more |
| Zoran Powers RCA's NTIA-Certified ATSC Converter Box |
January 14, 2008 -- Zoran Corp. today announced that its SupraHD 741 processor powers RCA's DTA 800A ATSC converter box, certified by the U.S. Government's National Telecommunications and Infrastructure Administration (NTIA) for use in th ... read more |
| Pixim New 32-mm Reference Board Camera Brings Enterprise-Class Features to Compact Security Camera Applications |
January 14, 2008 -- Pixim, Inc. today announced the new BDA-2500-32, a 32-mm Reference Board Camera, intended to speed time-to-market for security camera developers creating products for compact applications, such as small dome cameras. T ... read more |
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