| Tanner EDA Provides Seamless Integration to Mentor's Calibre Verification Suite |
September 19, 2008 -- has announced the immediate availability of its External Verification Interface (EVI) product, available with Tanner Tools v13.11 release on Windows. EVI provides a seamless interface for Tanner's tool users that al ... read more |
| Cypress Announces Third-Party Production Programming Support for PSoC Programmable System-on-Chip Devices |
September 19, 2008 -- Cypress Semiconductor Corp. has announced that RPM Systems Corp. now offers production programming support for Cypress’s family. RPM’s MPQ-PSoC 4 Port In-System Programmer (ISP) simplifies programming of four PSoC d ... read more |
| IPextreme Provides Solarflare Additional Licenses of Infineon C166SV1 Microcontroller IP |
September 19, 2008 -- IPextreme, Inc. and Solarflare Communications, Inc. announced that after a successful release of the 10Xpress SFT9001 10GBASE-T PHY, the existing C166SV1 microcontroller license has been extended. Consuming on ... read more |
| Boundary Scan Module Extends Structural Test Coverage to DIMM240 Interfaces |
September 19, 2008 -- Goepel Electronic GmbH has announced the market introduction of the CION Module/ DIMM240 as another boundary scan I/O module of the CION product family. The new low-cost module is serially controlled via TAP to speci ... read more |
| Mentor Graphics and PTC Deliver Bi-Directional ECAD-MCAD Collaboration Capability |
September 19, 2008 -- Mentor Graphics Corp. has announced delivery of the industry’s first design collaboration capability between electrical (ECAD) and mechanical (MCAD) design solutions enabling teams to use this solution from the desig ... read more |
| Impulse C Integrates with BlueCat Linux for Performance and Prototyping for Xilinx FPGAs |
September 19, 2008 -- LynuxWorks, Inc. and Impulse Accelerated Technologies, Inc. have announced technical collaboration, libraries and reference examples combining the Impulse C-to-FPGA tools with LynuxWorks BlueCat operating syst ... read more |
| IBM and Mentor Graphics to Develop 22-nm Computational Lithography Solution |
September 18, 2008 -- IBM and Mentor Graphics Corp. have announced an agreement to jointly develop and distribute next-generation computational lithography (CL) software solutions to enhance the imaging capability of lithographic s ... read more |
| Universities Adopt CoWare Processor Designer as Teaching and Research Tool |
September 18, 2008 -- CoWare, Inc. announced today that universities worldwide are adopting CoWare Processor Designer for teaching application-specific processor architecture in graduate student classes and for advanced research. The use ... read more |
| HPC Platform Selects Altera Stratix II FPGA Family for New HMPE System |
September 18, 2008 -- Altera Corp. announced today that HPC Platform of Paris, France, has selected two members of the Stratix II FPGA family for use in its ultra-low latency system for market data processing, algorithmic trading and comp ... read more |
| Lattice Delivers Fast RLDRAM I/II Memory Controller Support |
September 18, 2008 -- Lattice Semiconductor Corp. has announced FPGA-based support for the Reduced Latency Dynamic Random Access Memory (RLDRAM) I/II memory devices. The LatticeSC and LatticeSCM (LatticeSC/M) FPGA families now support RL ... read more |
| MIPS Technologies Unveils Linux Development Tools in New Integrated Component Suite |
September 18, 2008 -- MIPS Technologies, Inc. has introduced the new MIPS Navigator Integrated Component Suite (ICS) to enable embedded developers to more easily code, debug and analyze Linux systems on MIPS-Based SOCs and embedded system ... read more |
| IBM Develops Computational Scaling Solution for Next Generation 22-nm Semiconductors |
September 18, 2008 -- IBM today announced the semiconductor industry's first computationally based process for production of next generation 22-nm semiconductors. Known as Computational Scaling (CS), this new initiative will feature support fro ... read more |
| LSI Delivers Read Channel Achieving 4.0-GHz Data Rates for Enterprise Hard Disk Drives |
September 18, 2008 -- LSI Corp. has extended its portfolio of system-on-chip (SOC) components for hard disk drives (HDDs) with the introduction of new read channel and physical layer (PHY) technologies. The new 65-nm LSI TrueStore RC8900 ... read more |
| On2 Technologies Announces New High-Definition Hardware Encoder IP |
September 17, 2008 -- On2 Technologies, Inc. has announced the availability of the Hantro 7280 encoder register transfer level (RTL) design. Supporting MPEG-4, H.263 and H.264 video, along with 16MP JPEG, the encoder is targeted for chips ... read more |
| Achronix Semiconductor Breaks FPGA Performance Barriers Featured |
September 16, 2008 -- Achronix Semiconductor Corp. today announced that it has begun shipping what it claims is the world’s fastest FPGAs. The Speedster family, with the SPD60 as its initial member, delivers speeds up to 1.5GHz, which rep ... read more |
| AWR and Mentor Graphics Unveil High-Frequency PCB Co-Design that Obsoletes File Translation |
September 17, 2008 -- AWR Corp. and Mentor Graphics Corp. have announced AWR Connected for Mentor Graphics. This new synergy of design flow between AWR and Mentor Graphics obsoletes file translation between Mentor Graphics’ Expedit ... read more |
| Fraunhofer IIS and VoiceAge Propose New MPEG Audio Codec Standard |
September 17, 2008 -- Fraunhofer IIS and VoiceAge Corp. have announced that their proposal for a new MPEG audio codec has been selected to provide the basis for ongoing standardization work. The new technology is the first audio co ... read more |
| Fresco Microchip Selects Berkeley Design Automation Tools for Single-Chip Broadcast TV Receiver |
September 17, 2008 -- Berkeley Design Automation, Inc. today announced that Fresco Microchip, Inc., a developer of leading-edge digital/analog broadcast TV receivers, has adopted the company's Analog FastSpice circuit simulator and Noise ... read more |
| Tanner EDA Delivers 64-Bit Physical Verification Tool Suite on Windows (x64) Platform |
September 17, 2008 -- Tanner EDA has announced the immediate availability of 64-Bit HiPer Verify for Windows. Tanner has ported its flagship physical verification product to the Windows Vista (x64) platform to provide developers the incre ... read more |
| PLDA's AHB-PCIe Bridge IP Selected for JVC's Next-Generation Professional Digital Camcorder System |
September 17, 2008 – PLDA has announced a key design win for its AHB-PCIe bridge IP with Victor Company of Japan, Ltd. Professional Systems Division (JVC) . JVC will be using the PLDA AHB - PCIe Bridge IP to provide a robust interconnect ... read more |
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