| Lattice's ispLEVER 7.2 FPGA Design Tool Suite Delivers Higher Performance in Less Time |
December 15, 2008 -- Lattice Semiconductor Corp. today announced Version 7.2 of its ispLEVER FPGA design tool suite with advanced place-and-route algorithms that deliver higher performance results in as much as 30% less time. The ispLEVER ... read more |
| ARC Provides N-trig with a Multi-Use, Multi-Year License |
December 15, 2008 -- ARC International has signed a multi-use, multi-year license agreement with N-trig that includes the ARC 600 and ARC 700 processors for use in N-trig’s DuoSense technology. N-trig develops, commercializes, manufacture ... read more |
| Altera Starts Shipping 40-nm Stratix IV FPGA Family |
December 15, 2008 -- Altera Corp. today announced silicon availability of its 40-nm FPGAs, targeting users in a variety of markets, including communications, broadcast, test, medical and military. The first device available is the EP4SGX2 ... read more |
| Barco's ARINC 429 IP Core Targeted to ProASIC3 FPGAs Achieves DO-254 Certification |
December 15, 2008 -- Actel Corp. today announced that the Barco Silex BA511 ARINC 429 IP core, targeted for Actel's ProASIC3 FPGAs, has been DO-254 certified through implementations in multiple safety-critical avionics applications ... read more |
| Verayo Secures FPGAs with Silicon Signatures |
December 15, 2008 -- Verayo, Inc. has announced the availability of its new Soft PUF technology for FPGAs and FPGA-based systems. Soft PUF extracts chip-unique signatures to authenticate the FPGA silicon, the underlying board or system. T ... read more |
| Vitesse SONET/SDH Clock and Data Recovery Device Sets New Standards for Input Jitter Tolerance |
December 12, 2008 -- Vitesse Semiconductor Corp. has extended its VSC8115 SONET /SDH STS-3/12, OC-3/12, STM-1/4 Clock and Data Recovery (CDR) device family with higher performance devices designed to deliver superior high-speed timing sig ... read more |
| NEC Electronics Announces 8-bit Microcontroller Lineup for Lighting Applications |
December 13, 2008 -- NEC Electronics Corp. this month began shipment of 14 new 8-bit All Flash MCUs for energy-efficient lighting applications. Designed specifically for fluorescent and LED lighting devices requiring low cost, high effici ... read more |
| SiTime Introduces 10-ppm MEMS Oscillator |
December 12, 2008 -- SiTime Corp. has announced the SiT9102, a differential output MEMS oscillator with ultra-high frequency stability of ±10ppm. The SiT9102 is being introduced along with the SiT9103 and SiT9104, 3-PLL programmable clock ... read more |
| Avnet Offers New On-Ramp Technical Session for Freescale L Family of 8-bit Microcontrollers |
December 12, 2008 -- Avnet Electronics Marketing has launched a new On-Ramp Technical Session featuring solutions from Freescale Semiconductor. The new On-Ramp features live presentations and demonstrations of the Freescale L family of 8- ... read more |
| Free Video/ Imaging Signal Processing Library Provides Access to DaVinci Technology Accelerator |
December 12, 2008 -- For the first time, developers of signal processing applications can access the power of a DaVinci technology accelerator with the new, royalty-free video/imaging co-processor (VICP) signal processing library available from ... read more |
| Aurora Networks Chooses Zarlink Circuit Emulation Technology to Help Meet Latest Industry Performance Requirements |
December 12, 2008 -- Zarlink Semiconductor, Inc. today announced that Aurora Networks, Inc., a provider of optical transport systems for broadband networks, is using its Circuit Emulation Services-over-Packet (CESoP) solution to help meet ... read more |
| MoSys to Abandon Analog/ Mixed-Signal Product Lines Featured |
December 11, 2008 -- MoSys, Inc. has initiated a plan to abandon its analog/ mixed-signal product lines, which include the mixed-signal chip designs acquired from Atmel Corp. in 2007. The plan reflects the Company's initiative to eliminat ... read more |
| LnK Partners with Orange Tree to Deliver SLIMbus Test and Verification Solutions |
December 11, 2008 -- Orange Tree Technologies, Ltd.is now supplying its Zest Series interconnect modules to LnK, a provider of test and verification solutions for SLIMbus, a standard interface between processors and peripheral components ... read more |
| New Lattice Small Form-Factor CPLDs Are Ideal for High-Volume Handheld Devices |
December 11, 2008 -- Lattice Semiconductor Corp.has announced two new, small footprint packages for its ispMACH 4000ZE CPLDs (complex programmable logic devices), making them an ideal choice for use in high-volume, handheld designs that d ... read more |
| ASTRI Selects Tensilica Processor Cores for Video Research Project |
December 11, 2008 -- Tensilica, Inc. today announced that Hong Kong Applied Science and Technology Research Institute (ASTRI) has selected Tensilica’s Xtensa customizable processor cores for a video research project. The government of Hon ... read more |
| Cadence Unveils Next-Generation Parallel Circuit Simulator for the Verification of Complex Analog and Mixed-Signal IC Designs |
December 11, 2008 -- Cadence Design Systems, Inc. has announced the availability of Cadence Virtuoso Accelerated Parallel Simulator (APS), its next-generation circuit simulator, with the full accuracy of the Virtuoso Spectre Circuit Simul ... read more |
| IPextreme Announces Availability of Freescale HCS08 Microprocessor IP Core |
December 11, 2008 -- IPextreme, Inc. is adding the Freescale HCS08 8-bit microprocessor to its line of industry standard 16-bit and 32-bit microprocessors. The Freescale HCS08 is a synthesizable, state-of-the-art, high- performance and lo ... read more |
| ARM Announces Support for Open Handset Alliance |
December 11, 2008 -- ARM announced today that it will participate in the Open Handset Alliance. ARM has been working with the open Android platform for some time and is committed to delivering a rich mobile experience based on the platfor ... read more |
| Mentor Graphics Olympus-SoC Place-and-Route System Qualifies for TSMC 40-nm Processes |
December 11, 2008 -- Mentor Graphics Corp. has announced the qualification and immediate availability of its Olympus-SoC place-and-route system for chip designs targeting TSMC's 40-nm process. These include the efficient 40-nm (LP) proces ... read more |
| Russian Design House Milandr Licenses ARM Cortex-M3 Processor for Automotive MCU Applications |
December 11, 2008 -- ARM announced that Russian-based IC design company, Milandr, has licensed the ARM Cortex-M3 processor for automotive microcontroller applications.
As the software content and system networking in automotive appl ... read more |
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