| PLX Technology Completes First Design on Advanced 40-nm Process Technology |
November 2, 2009 -- PLX Technology, Inc. has finished a new design on 40-nm process technology at Taiwan TSMC (Semiconductor Manufacturing Company). This major achievement creates new opportunities for designers looking to reap the benefi ... read more |
| MoSys Announces Availability of 40-nm PCI Express 2.0 PHY |
November 2, 2009-- MoSys, Inc. today announced the availability of its PCI Express 2.0 PHY. MoSys' PHY complies with the PIPE 2.0 specification and provides the physical layer (PHY) interface that connects to industry standard PCI Express ... read more |
| Microtronix Introduces Video-over-IP Add-on Kit for Altera and Microtronix FPGA Development Boards |
November 2, 2009 -- Microtronix, a producer of video imaging and intellectual property (IP) development solutions, has announced the release of its new Video-over-IP add-on kit for Altera and Microtronix Cyclone III and Stratix III FPGA D ... read more |
| Synopsys Extends DFTMAX Compression to Reduce the Cost of Pin-Limited Test |
November 2, 2009 -- Synopsys, Inc. today announced a new capability in DFTMAX compression that significantly reduces the cost of test for designs and methodologies that mandate very few test pins. Extending Synopsys' patented adaptive sca ... read more |
| Global Unichip Announces Mass Production of ARM7-Based GP5080 Solid State Disk SOC Solution |
November 2, 2009 -- Global Unichip Corp. (GUC) today announced the mass-production of its ARM7-based GP5080 series Solid Sate Disk (SSD) SOC platform solution, targeting the storage application for the market of Netbook/Smartbook, thin-NB ... read more |
| CSR Partners with Ralink to Drive Adoption of Bluetooth v3.0 + HS and 802.11n in PCs and Netbooks |
October 29, 2009 -- CSR plc has partnered with Ralink Technology Corp. to enable a new Bluetooth/ 802.11n PCI Express (PCIe) design. The design utilizes CSR's PC BlueCore, that supports the new Bluetooth v3.0 + High Speed (HS) prot ... read more |
| Ultra Communications Delivers Radiation-Hardened Fiber Optic Transceivers Using Simucad's PDKs and EDA Tools |
October 30, 2009 -- Ultra Communications, a leader in the development of high performance fiber optic transceivers for harsh environments, announced today the successful release of radiation-hardened integrated circuits for next-generation fiber ... read more |
| Juniper Chooses Synopsys as Its Primary EDA Partner |
October 30, 2009 -- Synopsys, Inc. today announced that Juniper Networks has signed a multi-year business agreement establishing Synopsys as its primary EDA partner. Under the new agreement, Juniper will use Synopsys' Galaxy Implementatio ... read more |
| MediaTek Adopts Carbon Design's System-Level Modeling Tools |
October 30, 2009 -- MediaTek, Inc., a fabless semiconductor company for wireless communications and digital media solutions, and Carbon Design Systems, Inc., the leading supplier of system level modeling and validation tools for sy ... read more |
| Sital Announces Release of Mil-Std-1553 IP Core with PCI Interface |
October 30, 2009 -- Sital Technology, Ltd. is expanding its IP products base with the release of the new Mil-Std-1553 IP Core with the addition of PCI interface. This new core can connect directly to a PCI bus, relieving the user from ... read more |
| CSR and TSMC Collaboration Reaches New Milestones |
October 30, 2009 -- CSR plc today announced that it has shipped more than 1.5 billion units and processed more than one million wafers from foundry partner . CSR also announced that it is collaborating with TSMC on a leading edge 40-nm lo ... read more |
| VarioTAP In-System Emulation Technology Now Supports Freescale PowerQUICC III Processors |
October 30, 2009 -- GOEPEL electronic GmbH announced the development of a special model library for Freescale processor types MPC85xx to support the VarioTAP emulation technology. The libraries are structured modularly as intelligent IP a ... read more |
| Avnet ASIC Israel Achieves Highest Level of Accreditation as Certified Design Center for MIPS Technologies
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October 28, 2009 -- MIPS Technologies, Inc. today announced that Avnet ASIC Israel (AAI), an ASIC and COT design, backend, and turnkey manufacturing services provider, has successfully obtained the highest level of accreditation as a cert ... read more |
| Silicon Labs Introduces High-Performance Touch-Sense Microcontrollers |
October 28, 2009 -- Silicon Laboratories, Inc. has entered the human interface market with the introduction of the QuickSense portfolio, featuring the new C8051F800 microcontroller (MCU) family offering fast capacitive touch sense capabil ... read more |
| Tiempo Chooses Verific Design Automation's SystemVerilog Front-End |
October 28, 2009 -- Tiempo, a provider of ultra-low-power asynchronous intellectual property (IP) for embedded applications, has chosen Verific Design Automation, Inc. to provide the front-end for its software products.
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| Synopsys Unveils 30% Smaller Area, Low-Power USB 2.0 PHY IP for 28-nm Processes |
October 29, 2009 -- Synopsys, Inc. has added the new DesignWare USB 2.0 picoPHY IP to its USB 2.0 PHY IP product line that has been successfully deployed in more than 300 customer designs, and in more than 50 different process technologie ... read more |
| SMIC and Cadence Announce Availability of 65-nm Low-Power Reference Flow 4.0 |
October 29, 2009 -- Cadence Design Systems, Inc. today announced that it has delivered a comprehensive low-power design flow for engineers targeting the 65-nm process at the Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corp. (SMIC). Based on ... read more |
| NVIDIA Adopts Synopsys Yield Explorer to Reduce Time-to-Volume |
October 28, 2009 -- Synopsys, Inc. today announced that NVIDIA Corp. has adopted Synopsys' Yield Explorer solution for yield analysis and yield ramp. NVIDIA selected Yield Explorer because of its ability to coherently combine and c ... read more |
| Mitsubishi Electric Selects eASIC for Display Wall Cubes |
October 28, 2009 -- eASIC Corp. today announced that Corporation (Kyoto Works), a leading global manufacturer of display wall systems, has selected eASIC's Nextreme New ASICs for its Seventy Series Display Wall Cube Systems. Mitsubishi E ... read more |
| Arasan and Cadence Collaborate to Extend Verification Best Practices |
October 29, 2009 -- Arasan Chip Systems, Inc. is collaborating with Cadence Design Systems, Inc. to deliver functional verification best practices. Under the collaboration agreement, Cadence will engineer Arasan's MIPI design IP ... read more |
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