| Zuken Releases CADSTAR 11 Express |
April 9, 2009 -- Zuken, Ltd. has released the latest revision of the free sample download of CADSTAR 11 Express. This full operation evaluation software is set-up to follow Zuken's strategy to harmonize the electronic and electrical desig ... read more |
| UMC Delivers ICs Produced on its High Performance 40-nm Logic Technology |
April 9, 2009 -- UMC (United Microelectronics Corp.) has delivered customer ICs produced on its high-performance (HP) 40-nm process technology. The products were manufactured with excellent cycle time and yields for the large die-size pro ... read more |
| Rambus Acquires Inapac Patents |
April 9, 2009 -- Rambus, Inc. has acquired a number of patents from Inapac Technology, Inc. to broaden its offerings for the mobile memory market. These patents complement the high-bandwidth, low-power memory technologies develope ... read more |
| Pyxis Technology Raises $3 Million |
April 9, 2009 -- Pyxis Technology, Inc., an electronic design automation software (EDA) company that offers auto-routing software to developers of high-performance integrated circuits), has raised $3 million in financing to accelerate the ... read more |
| Microchip Technology Introduces High-Speed 45-ns Comparators |
April 9, 2009 -- Microchip Technology, Inc. has announced the MCP6561/ 2/ 4/ 6/ 7/ 9 (MCP656X) family of high-speed (45-ns) comparators. With rail-to-rail input and output, low operating voltage down to 1.8V, low quiescent current and pac ... read more |
| intoPIX Enhances Its Multichannel JPEG 2000 Codec IP Cores |
April 9, 2009 -- intoPIX has unveiled its latest IPX-JPHD encoders and decoders for the broadcast industry. This new release not only delivers all the benefits of JPEG 2000, but is now able to provide the highest quality images for live e ... read more |
| IBM Selects Virage Logic as Its PowerPC Partner |
April 9, 2009 -- Virage Logic Corp. has announced a new relationship with IBM that designates Virage Logic as an IBM PowerPC Design Center, granting it the rights to license and distribute IBM's PowerPC processor cores and peripheral cor ... read more |
| DCD Announces the Fifth Generation of Its 8051 Core |
April 9, 2009 -- Digital Core Design (DCD) has released the fifth generation of its popular 8051 core. DP8051 runs Dhrystone 2.1 benchmark program 11.45 to 14.74 times faster than the original 80C51 at the same frequency. It gives 0.10779 ... read more |
| Carbon and MIPS Technologies Partner for Model Distribution |
April 9, 2009 -- Carbon Design Systems, Inc. and MIPS Technologies, Inc. announced today that they have partnered to deliver models of MIPS processor cores to Carbon's SoC Designer users. Development teams will now have the capabil ... read more |
| Vitesse’s Gigabit PHY Extends Battery Life and Lowers Operator Costs for Ethernet Modems |
April 7, 2009 -- Vitesse Semiconductor Corp. has unveiled a new small form-factor version of its SimpliPHY VSC8641, an IEEE 802.3 compliant Gigabit Ethernet PHY transceiver. Geared towards space conscious consumer electronic designs, this ... read more |
| NetLogic Microsystems Unveils Fast-Path Layer 7 Content Processor for Wire Speed, Deterministic Deep Packet Inspection |
April 7, 2009 -- NetLogic Microsystems, Inc. has announced the NLS2008 Layer 7 knowledge-based processor, capable of deterministically performing Layer 7 content-aware processing functions at 120Gbps. Coupling multiple standard 10-Gbit Et ... read more |
| Marvell Selects Synopsys as Its Primary EDA Partner |
April 7, 2009 -- Synopsys, Inc. today announced that has signed an expanded business agreement to establish Synopsys as its primary EDA partner. Marvell chose Synopsys because of its broad product portfolio and its ability to help Marvell ... read more |
| TI's TMS320C6743 DSP Brings Floating-Point Precision and Fixed-Point Performance to Energy-efficient, Connected Applications |
April 7, 2009 -- Texas Instruments, Inc. (TI) has announced the availability of the TMS320C6743 digital signal processor (DSP). Based on the TMS320C674x core, the new low-power DSP couples the high precision and wide dynamic range of TI's ... read more |
| Synopsys Introduces Discovery 2009 for Faster, Unified Verification Solutions |
April 7, 2009 -- Synopsys, Inc. has introduced the latest generation of its Discovery Verification Platform, an integrated verification solution for analog/ mixed-signal (AMS) and digital designs. Discovery 2009 delivers exceptional verif ... read more |
| National Semiconductor's New Stereo Headphone Amplifier Doubles Audio Playback Time for Portable Devices |
April 7, 2009 -- A new PowerWise stereo headphone amplifier from National Semiconductor Corp. draws only 0.9mA (typical) of quiescent current to double the audio playback time of smart phones, full-featured mobile phones and portable mus ... read more |
| Microchip Technology Enables Digital Signal Processing on the 32-bit PIC32 MCU Family Via Free High-Performance DSP Library |
April 7, 2009 -- Microchip Technology, Inc. announced that embedded designers can now combine digital signal processing and MCU control code with the 32-bit PIC32 microcontroller family, using its no-cost, royalty-free high-performance DS ... read more |
| Gennum's Snowbush IP Group Enables Rapid Deployment of SATA and SAS 6-Gbps Products |
April 7, 2009 -- Gennum Corp. today announced that its Snowbush IP group has developed a Serial Advanced Technology Attachment (SATA) 6-Gbps) physical layer (PHY) intellectual property (IP) block. The new IP also satisfies the stringent r ... read more |
| Cypress’s New PowerPSoC Family Integrates LED Driver and Controller on One Chip |
April 7, 2009 -- Cypress Semiconductor Corp. has introduced the PowerPSoC family of integrated embedded power controllers, the industry’s first single-chip solution for both controlling and driving high-power LEDs. The PowerPSoC family in ... read more |
| Quickfilter Technologies and AKM Semiconductor Announce Docking Station Reference Design |
April 7, 2009 -- Quickfilter Technologies, Inc. today announced the release and general availability of the QF-Audio-Dragon docking station reference design. The reference design contains all the required electronics necessary to implemen ... read more |
| Cesign Selects Jazz Semiconductor's BCD Process for New Class-D Amplifier |
April 7, 2009 -- Jazz Semiconductor today announced that Cesign, a Korean-based fabless analog semiconductor company, has selected Jazz’s power-management technology, a 0.25-micron Bipolar-CMOS-DMOS process (BCD25) to develop and manufact ... read more |
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