| Percello Achieves First-Pass Silicon Success with Denali Design and Verification IP Products |
April 22, 2009 -- Denali Software, Inc. today announced that Percello, Ltd., a fabless semiconductor company developing digital baseband processor chips, has achieved first-pass silicon success with Denali's Databahn DDR memory con ... read more |
| NEC Electronics Introduces 8-Bit Microcontrollers with Integrated Constant High-Current Drivers |
April 23, 2009 -- NEC Electronics today introduced a new 8-bit All Flash general-purpose microcontroller (MCU), the µPD78F8025, with integrated constant high-current drivers, and 32kBytes of flash memory, which expands the µPD78F8024 prod ... read more |
| Silicon Creations Successfully Tapes Out Complex RF Chip Using Simucad's Complete RF Tool Flow |
April 22, 2009 -- Silicon Creations, a company that specializes in high-performance analog and mixed-signal IC design, has successfully taped out its fourth high performance chipset using an all-Simucad Design Automation, Inc. tool flow. ... read more |
| Timesys Announces Factory Support for MIPS32 Processor Cores |
April 22, 2009 -- Timesys Corp. has announced Timesys Factory support for MIPS32 synthesizable processor cores, including the high-performance MIPS32 74K and multi-threaded, multi-core 1004K Coherent Processing System.
The Timesys F ... read more |
| TSMC Launches Integrated Sign-Off Flow to Shorten Design Cycle, Enhance Tape-Out Quality |
April 22, 2009 -- TSMC (Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company) has unveiled the first foundry-specific Integrated Sign-Off Flow, available now for 65-nm designs.
Integrated Sign-Off Flow is an automated RTL-to-GDSII chip-implem ... read more |
| ViXS XCode 3108 Video Processor's High Definition Transcoding is Core to New Pioneer Blu-Ray Disc Recorders |
April 22, 2009 -- ViXS Systems, Inc. announced today that the XCode 3000 series single MPEG4 AVC (MPEG4 Part 10/H.264) transcoder/ encoder/ decoder IC is being used by Pioneer for two new Blu-Ray Disc (BD) recorder products: BDR-WD900 and ... read more |
| Ambarella AMBACAST6000 Platform Ushers In a New Era Of Broadcast Video Processing |
April 22, 2009 -- Ambarella, Inc.has introduced its latest offering, the AmbaCast 6000 universal broadcast video processor. The AmbaCast 6000 is the first single-chip encode/ decode/ transcode/ transrate platform for H.264 and MPEG-2, up ... read more |
| Eureka Technology and embWiSe Partners in Embedded SD/SDIO Solution |
April 22, 2009 -- Eureka Technology, Inc. and embWiSe Technologies Pvt, Ltd. announced a partnership of software and hardware solution that combinesf Eureka’s SD/SDIO/MMC controller and embWiSe's SDIOWorx software.
"A complet ... read more |
| Vanguard Software Solutions Releases IP Cores for Panasonic AVC-Intra and H.264 CABAC IP Cores |
April 23, 2009 -- Vanguard Software Solutions, Inc. (VSOFTS) has announced support for Panasonic AVC-Intra and H.264 CABAC IP Cores for FPGA and custom ASICs, real-time AVC transcoding required in Internet/ Web video casting, and H.264 SV ... read more |
| NXP Semiconductors and Transim Launch New PMBus Online Design Tool |
April 23, 2009 -- NXP Semiconductors and Transim Technology Corp. have launched a web-based design and monitoring solution for power-management ICs compliant with the current PMBus protocol specifications.
NXP's PIP8000 power ... read more |
| Frontier Silicon Selects S3 Mixed-Signal IP for Advanced Digital Radio SOC |
April 21, 2009 -- Silicon & Software Systems, Ltd. (S3) today announced that Frontier Silicon, Ltd. has licensed its mixed-signal IP for its Chorus 3 SOC. S3 delivered a high-performance PLL from its portfolio as part of the licens ... read more |
| ARM Announces Availability of Industry's Broadest 40-nm G Physical IP Platform |
April 21, 2009 -- ARM has announced the availability of the industry’s most comprehensive IP platform for TSMC’s 40nm G manufacturing process. This latest silicon-validated physical IP from ARM enables cost-effective development of perfor ... read more |
| TSMC and GUC 65LP ARM 1176JZF Hardened Cores Open Doors for 65-nm Designers |
April, 21, 2009 -- TSMC (Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company) and Global Unichip Corp. (GUC) have successfully implemented and obtained silicon samples of a high-speed ARM 1176 core on TSMC’s 65 LP process, and an ultra low ... read more |
| Texas Instruments Unites Speed and Efficiency In Fast, Dual 14-bit ADC |
April 21, 2009 -- Texas Instruments, Inc. (TI) has introduced a dual, 14-bit analog-to-digital converter (ADC) at 250Msps (mega samples per second) to deliver a premier combination of wide signal bandwidth, high dynamic performance and lo ... read more |
| SMSC Expands Ethernet Portfolio with Small, Low-Power 10/10 Ethernet Transceivers |
April 21, 2009 -- SMSC today introduced what the company says is industry’s smallest size and lowest power consumption 10/100 Physical Layer Transceivers (PHYs). The LAN8710 and LAN8720 offer up to 40% lower power consumption than existin ... read more |
| Sidense OTP Memory IP Enables 65-nm Mobile Handset Chip |
April 21, 2009 -- Sidense Corp. today announced that its 1T-OTP one-time programmable (OTP) memory IP is available for customer designs at the 65-nm process node. Sidense is the first embedded OTP vendor to announce high density (above 1 ... read more |
| Renesas and CoWare Collaborate to Accelerate the Deployment of SH-based Virtual Platforms in Mobile, Automotive and Digital Imaging Applications |
April 21, 2009 -- CoWare, Inc. is collaborating with Renesas Electronics Corp. to deliver better development tools to Renesas’ SH core-based software development community using virtual platforms. With a strong presence in automoti ... read more |
| Kilopass Technology Expands Embedded Non-Volatile Memory Offering to Address Mobile, Consumer, and Computing Markets |
April 22, 2009 -- Kilopass Technology, Inc. has announced BriteXPM, a new product family of one-time programmable (OTP) embedded non-volatile memory (NVM) for mobile, consumer and computing applications requiring faster random access time ... read more |
| JasperGold Adds Proof Accelerators for Fast, Thorough Verification |
April 21, 2009 -- Jasper Design Automation has announced the addition of three new Proof Accelerators to its JasperGold Verification System. Proof Accelerators increase the power, the capacity and the performance of formal verification by ... read more |
| OCP-IP Delivers New Advanced SystemC TLM Kit Featured |
April 21, 2009 -- OCP International Partnership (OCP-IP) today announced the availability of the SystemC TLM kit for OCP. The new kit represents the first, and most advanced TLM-2.0 based, industry-ready kit in existence today. It should ... read more |
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