| Alps Electric Selects Berkeley Design Automation Analog FastSpice and Noise Analysis Option |
January 23, 2009 -- Berkeley Design Automation, Inc. has announced that Alps Electric Co. Ltd., a global manufacturer of electronics devices and sensors for automobiles, PCs, cellular phones, audio, and home appliances, has selected the c ... read more |
| TI Introduces Family of Low-Power ADCs for High-Density Multi-Channel Applications |
January 23, 2009 -- Texas Instruments, Inc. has announced the ADS795x family of low-power, precision SAR analog-to-digital converters (ADC) in a small form factor. These devices provide excellent linearity and AC performance for high-dens ... read more |
| Solido Design Automation Launches xtensible Process Variation Solution for Transistor-Level Designers |
January 23, 2009 -- Solido Design Automation, Inc. has announced what it says is the industry’s first truly scalable and extensible solution for meeting design challenges created by process variations at nanometer feature sizes. The new V ... read more |
| Si2's Open Modeling Coalition Releases Document on Statistical Design Techniques Featured |
January 22, 2009 -- The Open Modeling Coalition (OMC) has released a document titled "Statistical Methods for Semiconductor Chip Design." The document was developed by the OMC's Statistical Working Group, and is freely available to the industry ... read more |
| Agilent Technologies GoldenGate Tool Now Supported as Part of STMicroelectronics 65-nm RF Design Platform |
January 22, 2009 -- Agilent Technologies, Inc. has announced support for Agilent’s GoldenGate RFIC simulation, analysis and verification tools as part of STMicroelectronics’ 65-nm design platform. The qualification of GoldenGate for ST’s ... read more |
| Blue Pearl Software Introduces Short-Term EDA Tool Use Plan |
January 22, 2009 -- Blue Pearl Software, Inc. has introduced an innovative EDA business model designed to emphasize affordability by offering access to productivity enhancing tools at a fraction of their purchase price. The program offers ... read more |
| CAST Releases Fast 8051 IP Core |
January 22, 2009 -- CAST, Inc. today released a new member of its 8051-compatible processor family, the R8051XC2 IP core. Running 12.1 times faster than the original 8051 chip, the new core is the fastest CAST has offered, and the company ... read more |
| Innovasic Announces Complete Ethernet/IP Solution for Its fido1100 Communication Controller |
January 22, 2009 -- Innovasic Semiconductor, Inc. has announced that its Module Evaluation Kits are shipping for the fido1100 Communication Controller with a complete Ethernet/IP solution.
The kit contains a Dual Real-Time Ethernet ... read more |
| Mixel and Northwest Logic Partner to Deliver Complete MIPI IP Solution |
January 22, 2009 -- Mixel Inc. and Northwest Logic have announced the availability of a complete solution for the Mobile Industry Processor Interface (MIPI) Camera Serial Interface-2 (CSI-2). This solution consists of the Mixel MI ... read more |
| Multiprocessing, Magnetism and the Milky Way |
January 22, 2009 -- 3L, Ltd. announced that a new broad-band spectroscopic data-acquisition system has been built and deployed for the 26-m radiotelescope of the Dominion Radio Astrophysical Observatory (DRAO) in Penticton, Canada. Desig ... read more |
| Video Co-Development Kit Converts Software to Xilinx FPGAs in Hours Instead of Days |
January 22, 2009 -- Impulse Accelerated Technologies, Inc. has announced availability of a Video Processing Developer’s Kit for rapid design of medical, military, automotive, and consumer electronics video systems.
"System engineers ... read more |
| SMIC Releases Preliminary Version of Three 65-nm Standard Cell Libraries |
January 22, 2009 -- The Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corp. (SMIC) today announced the preliminary release of three in-house 65-nm standard cell libraries. The libraries include a high-performance Very High Speed (VHS) library ... read more |
| Mentor Graphics Announces Scalable TLM-2.0 Design Flow Using Vista and Catapult C Synthesis ESL Design Tools |
January 21, 2009 -- Mentor Graphics Corp. has announced a new scalable design methodology based on a layered transaction level model (TLM) that allows a single model to be taken from design concept to implementation. The Mentor Graphics V ... read more |
| Alcatel-Lucent Selects NetLogic Microsystems NL71024XT Processors for Terabit IP Service Router Portfolio |
January 21, 2009 -- NetLogic Microsystems, Inc. today announced that Alcatel-Lucent, a leader in fixed, mobile and converged broadband networking solutions, has selected its NL71024XT device for Alcatel-Lucent’s Terabit IP Service Router ... read more |
| Lattice Delivers Flexible, Programmable 40-Gbps SerDes Framer Interface, Level 5 (SFI5) IP Core Solution |
January 21, 2009 -- Lattice Semiconductor Corp. has announced the availability of the 40-Gbps SerDes Framer Interface, Level 5 (SFI5) intellectual property (IP) Core in the LatticeSC and LatticeSCM FPGA families. The solution utilizes sev ... read more |
| Microchip Technology Launches Stand-Alone Serial SRAM Devices |
January 21, 2009 -- Microchip Technology, Inc. has announced a family of 8- and 32-kByte stand-alone serial SRAM devices, which increase a system’s available RAM memory by adding small, inexpensive external devices. The 23A640, 23K640 (23 ... read more |
| New Capabilities in Synfora Algorithmic Synthesis Design Tools Increase Performance, Decrease Area |
January 21, 2009 -- Synfora, Inc. has announced versions of its PICO Extreme and PICO Extreme FPGA algorithmic synthesis design tools that will achieve higher performance and smaller area than the previous generation of the tools. PICO Ex ... read more |
| Sigrity Unveils Breakthrough Channel Designer Solution |
January 21, 2009 -- Sigrity, Inc. has announced Channel Designer, an advanced analysis solution that offers the flexibility and accuracy required for high-speed serial links.
"Designs with high-speed serial links operating at multi- ... read more |
| Silicon Motion Acquires ARC License to Target Digital Multimedia and Solid State Storage Devices |
January 21, 2009 -- ARC International announced that Silicon Motion Technology Corp. has taken a license to design ARC's IP into chips for high-volume consumer multimedia products such as mobile TV, portable media players and MP4 players, ... read more |
| Stretch Announces New Series of PCIe Video Capture Cards |
January 21, 2009 -- Stretch, Inc. has announced its VCC6000 Series of PCIe video capture cards. The cards, initially available in 16- and 8-channel versions, are designed for OEMs and are easily integrated with existing DVR applications a ... read more |
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