| Tumbleweed Licenses Certicom's Elliptic Curve Cryptography |
July 22, 2008 -- Certicom Corp. announced today that Tumbleweed Communications Corp., a provider of managed file transfer, email security, and identity validation, will use Certicom’s Security Builder family of solutions. Licensing Cert ... read more |
| Silvus Technologies and Orange Coast Semiconductor Form Partnership to Benefit SOC Companies |
July 22, 2008 -- Silvus Technologies, Inc. and Orange Coast Semiconductor, Inc. today announced the formation of a partnership that will deliver a turnkey RF/ PHY/ MAC 802.11n IP solution. Silvus Technologies will be providing its ... read more |
| PIC32 Compiler Offers Faster Interrupt Handling, 40% Smaller Code |
July 22, 2008 -- HI-TECH Software has launched an "omniscient" ANSI C compiler for Microchip's PIC32 family of microcontrollers that can boost real-time performance by 25% or more, and can provide nearly double code density. HI-TECH C PRO ... read more |
| eInfochips Announces SPI4.2 and CCIR656 Stream Generator Design IP |
July 21, 2008 -- eInfochips, Ltd. today announced the availability of OIF (Optical Internetworking forum) compliant SPI4.2 design IP (System packet interface Level 4 Phase 2) and ITU-R BT 601 and ITU-R BT 656 compliant CCIR 656 IP.
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| Digital Blocks Announces I2C-Master Controller IP Core Family for the ARM AMBA 2.0 APB and Altera NIOS II Avalon Interconnects |
July 21, 2008 -- Digital Blocks, Inc. has announces the DB-I2C-M Controller IP core. The DB-I2C-M IP core targets systems-on-chip (SOC) ASSP, ASIC, and FPGA designs containing embedded processors with high-performance algorithm requiremen ... read more |
| Denali Announces New LPDDR2 Memory Controller and PHY Solution |
July 21, 2008 -- Inc. today announced that its Databahn memory controller and PHY IP supports the pre-released LPDDR2 specification, as currently defined by JEDEC, the leading developer of standards for the solid-state industry. Denali's ... read more |
| eASIC Announces eDiVeo Family of Low-Cost Single-Chip Audio and Video Codecs |
July 21, 2008 -- eASIC Corp. today announced the immediate availability of the eDV9100, the first member of it’s eDiVeo family of low-cost single-chip audio and video codecs. The eDV9100 supports MPEG-4 video providing encoding or decodin ... read more |
| Mentor Donates Unified Coverage Database to the Accellera Unified Coverage Interoperability Standard Technical Subcommittee Featured |
July 21, 2008 -- Mentor Graphics Corp. has donated its Unified Coverage Database (UCDB) specification and application programming interface (API), which manages all coverage data from multiple tools, to Accellera’s Unified Coverage Databa ... read more |
| Telechips Licenses ARM Mali-200 GPU |
July 21, 2008 – Telechips, Inc., a Korean-based leader in the design and development of digital media processors, and ARM announced that Telechips is the first Korean licensee of the ARM Mali-200 graphics processing unit (GPU), bringing a ... read more |
| Design Art Networks Selects TurboConcept FEC solutions |
July 18, 2008 -- TurboConcept announced today that DesignArt Networks has incorporated TC1000-WiMAX turbo encoder/ decoder solutions into its 4G Silicon Platform SOC.
TC1000-WiMAX turbo encoder and decoder Cores are compliant with W ... read more |
| TI's 2.4-GHz RF Front End Extends Range In Low-power Wireless Systems By Up to 15X |
July 18, 2008 -- Texas Instruments, Inc. (TI) has introduced highly integrated 2.4-GHz radio frequency (RF) front end for low-power and low-voltage wireless applications. The CC2591 increases the range (link budget) in wireless systems by ... read more |
| Complete SOC Development Environment Now Available at OpenCores |
July 18, 2008 -- OpenCores has announced the release of a solution aimed at lowering the technical threshold of development with the open-source OpenRISC processor. OpenCores now offers its LGPL-licensed 32-bit RISC processor along with a ... read more |
| EdXact Joins Synopsys in-Sync Interoperability Program |
July 18, 2008 -- EdXact has joined Synopsys’ in-Sync interoperability program. The in-Sync program establishes relationships between Synopsys and other EDA vendors to enable customer flows to run as smoothly as possible. Through the in-Sy ... read more |
| Design Costs for Portable Display Electronics Drop with TI's Lowest Cost Digital Media Processor |
July 18, 2008 -- Texas Instruments, Inc. (TI) has announced its lowest-cost digital media processor, the TMS320DM335 device, for applications driven by advanced image capture and display requirements. Consumers will now be able to have en ... read more |
| Asyst Introduces New VAO Strategic Software Platform |
July 17, 2008 -- Asyst Technologies, Inc. has announced the commercial availability of its VAO (Visualize Analyze Optimize) productivity solution. VAO coordinates data acquisition from, and provides control of, a wide range of factory sys ... read more |
| Cavium Networks to Acquire Taiwan-Based Star Semiconductor |
July 17, 2008 -- Cavium Networks has signed a definitive agreement to acquire certain assets and business of Star Semiconductor Corp. Star Semiconductor is a Taiwan-based design house in Hsinchu with expertise in building highly integrate ... read more |
| Mentor Graphics Achieves Industry-First OpenMAX Conformance for Nucleus OS Multimedia Framework |
July 17, 2008 -- Mentor Graphics Corp. today announced that the Nucleus operating system (OS) Multimedia Framework (MMF) has passed OpenMAX IL conformance testing on the Atmel AT91SAM9261 platform, making it the first commercial OS to ach ... read more |
| Atmel Introduces Family of AVR Microcontrollers for Automotive LIN Networking Applications |
July 17, 2008 -- Atmel Corp. has announced the availability of a new family of AVR 8-bit microcontrollers for LIN automotive networking applications. The ATtiny167 is the first device and is optimized to LIN slave applications. It will be ... read more |
| MIPS32 74K Core Featured in Broadcom’s New Family of Single-Chip WLAN Router Solutions |
July 17, 2008 -- MIPS Technologies, Inc. today announced that its superscalar MIPS32 74K processor core is part of the new family of Intensi-fi XLR 802.11n wireless LAN (WLAN) chipsets from Broadcom Corp. The new Broadcom solutions provid ... read more |
| Mentor Graphics Announces Support of Model-Driven Design for Six Sigma in the Automotive Industry |
July 17, 2008 -- Mentor Graphics Corp. today announced that its virtual prototyping tool, SystemVision, supports Design for Six Sigma (DFSS) methodologies to achieve cost-effective design innovation by a model-driven development process.
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