| Express Logic and Avnet Develop RTOS Support for Xilinx PowerPC 440 Processor on Virtex-5 FPGAs |
August 20, 2008 -- Express Logic, Inc. and Avnet Electronics Marketing today announced ThreadX RTOS now supports the PowerPC 440 processor embedded in Xilinx Virtex-5 FPGAs. The IBM PowerPC 440 core is a hard 32-bit RISC CPU proces ... read more |
| NEC Electronics Expands Wireless USB Portfolio with New Host Controller |
August 20, 2008 -- NEC Electronics has expanded its suite of Wireless USB devices with the introduction of the uPD720171 Wireless USB host controller. Building on the company’s first host controller (uPD720170), the new uPD720171 controll ... read more |
| Mentor Graphics and Altera Partner on DO-254 |
August 20, 2008 -- Altera Corp. and Mentor Graphics Corp. today announced the companies are working together to develop tools and methodologies for use in creating DO-254-certifiable intellectual property (IP) that targets Altera’s FPGA a ... read more |
| IBM Expands Use of Magma's QuickCap NX Parasitic Extraction Software |
August 20, 2008 -- Magma Design Automation, Inc. today announced it has extended the reach of its QuickCap NX parasitic capacitance extraction software and that IBM is now utilizing the software for its 45-nm and 65-nm process technologie ... read more |
| ASSET’s ScanWorks Supports On-Chip Evaluation of Avago Technologies’ ASICs |
August 20, 2008 -- ASSET InterTech, Inc. has reached an agreement under which ScanWorks, the company’s platform for open embedded instrumentation tools, will support Avago Technologies’ embedded instrumentation technology for select ASICs ... read more |
| Cadence Introduces Constraint-Driven High-Density-Interconnect Design Flow for PCBs |
August 19, 2008 -- Cadence Design Systems, Inc. has announced a set of improvements to the Cadence Allegro and OrCAD families of products aimed at boosting performance and productivity through new features and functionality. Part of the ... read more |
| Agilent Technologies Announces Integrated, 3D EM Simulation Solution for RF Module Design |
August 19, 2008 -- Agilent Technologies, Inc. has announced an integrated design flow solution that includes full 3D EM simulation for RF Module Design. Called EMDS-for-ADS, the full 3D electromagnetic (EM) simulator is integrated into Ag ... read more |
| HyperTransport Consortium Announces HTX3 Specification |
August 19, 2008 -- The today announced it has released its new HTX3 specification, a major enhancement to its HTX expansion connector specification. The HTX Connector specification defines the electrical and mechanical characteristics of ... read more |
| PLX Launches Industry's First PCI Express Switches with Integrated DMA |
August 19, 2008 -- PLX Technology, Inc. has announced three new PCIe switch devices with a innovative architecture that features an integrated engine. Each switch provides four DMA channels to support the high data rates required in stora ... read more |
| Timing Diagram Editors Add Mixed-Signal Capabilities |
August 19, 2008 -- SynaptiCAD, Inc.'s timing diagram editors now support mixed-signal TRO waveform import, analog and digital waveform viewing, fast waveform state searching, and faster performance when displaying large files. New versio ... read more |
| Imperas Announces Verification, Licensing, Distribution Agreement With MIPS Technologies |
August 19, 2008 -- Imperas, Inc. has signed an agreement with MIPS Technologies, Inc. for the verification of a series of processor models that Imperas will create and make freely available.
Imperas models of MIPS processor cores ... read more |
| CoWare Delivers Ultra High-Speed, MIPS-Verified Instruction Set Simulators for MIPS32 Cores |
August 19, 2008 -- CoWare, Inc. and MIPS Technologies, Inc. have announced a partnership to deliver ultra high-speed MIPS-Verified Instruction Set Simulators (ISS) of MIPS32 cores. These models, developed with CoWare Processor Desi ... read more |
| Netxen Uses Magma's Integrated IC Implementation Flow for Its NX3031 Next-Generation Networking Chip |
August 19, 2008 -- Magma Design Automation, Inc. today announced that Netxen, a provider of 10-Gigabit Ethernet (10GbE) technology and products, has released to production the NX3031, a multimillion-gate, 90-nm, enterprise-class network i ... read more |
| Stretch Announces the VRC6000 Series of PCIe DVR Add-in Cards |
August 19, 2008 -- Stretch, Inc. today announced its VRC6000 series of PCIe DVR add-in cards, which leverage the processing power of the Stretch S6000 family of software configurable processors to deliver real-time D1 H.264 encoding and u ... read more |
| STMicroelectronics Demonstrates First Physical Layer IP for 6-Gbps SATA Hard Disk Drives |
August 19, 2008 -- STMicroelectronics has demonstrated the first MIPHY (Multi Interface PHY) Physical Layer interface for the new 6-Gbps SATA (Serial Advanced Technology Attachment) technology. Physical Layer macro-cells perform the high- ... read more |
| ARM SoC Designer Final Release v7.1 Now Available |
August 18, 2008 -- ARM today announced the availability of SoC Designer version 7.1. This release provides several new benefits and enhancements and is the last release made by ARM. As per the agreement with Carbon Design Systems, Carbon ... read more |
| IBM Builds World's Smallest SRAM Memory Cell Featured |
August 18, 2008 -- IBM and its joint development partners AMD, Freescale, STMicroelectronics, Toshiba and the College of Nanoscale Science and Engineering (CNSE) , today announced the first working static random access memory (SRAM) for ... read more |
| ARM Mali-200 GPU Compliant with OpenGL ES 2.0, OpenGL ES 1.1 and OpenVG 1.0 |
August 18, 2008 -- The ARM Mali-200 graphics processing unit (GPU) is now compliant with the full range of Khronos embedded 2D and 3D graphics standards: OpenGL ES 2.0, OpenGL ES 1.1 and OpenVG 1.0. This confirms the Mali-200 GPU as a fully con ... read more |
| Timesys Announces Embedded Linux for Tensilica Diamond Standard 232L Processor Core |
August 18, 2008 -- Timesys Corp. and Tensilica, Inc. have announced general availability of LinuxLink software subscriptions for Tensilica’s Diamond Standard 232L processor cores. The LinuxLink subscription provides developers with ... read more |
| Xilinx Extends Spartan-3A FPGA Family |
August 18, 2008 -- Xilinx, Inc. has announced the production availability of small form-factor packages for its Extended Spartan-3A family of FPGAs, delivering lower price points and enabling the reduction of total system costs for buildi ... read more |
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