| Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy Featured |
Courtesy of Ovation and YouTube, we treat you to a great performance of "The Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy" from Tchaikovsky's The Nutcracker. There are many versions of The Nucracker available on DVD, but the Bolshoi Ballet's is among t ... read more |
| Digital Blocks Qualifies the DB9000 TFT LCD Controller IP for High-Resolution Medical, Industrial, Monitor, and Cinema Applications |
December 30, 2010 -- Digital Blocks, Inc. has announced the qualification of the DB9000 TFT LCD Controller core to support the most demanding high-resolution LCD panels. The DB9000 IP core supports ASIC, ASSP, and FPGA fabrics interfacing ... read more |
| ARM and Intel Dominate Battle for 4 Billion Unit Mobile Processor Market |
December 30, 2010 -- Currently, two architectures, ARM and x86 dominate the low and high-end of the mobile market, respectively, and are battling it out for the mid-range convergence devices like e-readers, tablets, and netbooks. But other arch ... read more |
| Vivante Momentum Continues in the GPU Market with 40 Licensees |
December 28, 2010 -- Vivante Corp. has marked four major corporate milestones in 2010. The product milestones include a cumulative 40 companies licensing Vivante GPU cores; and multiple customers having integrated Vivante's multicore GPU ... read more |
| Tuxera Releases GPL-Compliant FAT32 Replacement Package for Android |
December 29, 2010 -- Tuxera, Inc. announced today the release of a complete, GPL-compliant FAT32 replacement package for Android and Linux. The package combines Tuxera's high-performance, proprietary FAT, FAT32, exFAT and NTFS drivers int ... read more |
| Tensilica's HiFi Audio DSP First IP Core to Support SRS' Advanced StudioSound HD Audio Suite for HDTVs |
December 27, 2010 -- SRS Labs, Inc. and Tensilica, Inc. have announced that Tensilica is the first intellectual property (IP) core supplier to commercially support SRS StudioSound HD, the latest and most advanced all-in-one audio ... read more |
| Rambus and Renesas Electronics Sign Patent License Agreement |
December 27, 2010 -- Rambus, Inc. announced today that it has renewed its patent license agreement with Renesas Electronics Corp. (Renesas Technology Corp. and NEC Electronics Corp. merged in April 2010 to form Renesas Electronics) ... read more |
| Xylon logiTAP FPGA Development Platform Enables Efficient GUI Application Developments |
December 27, 2010 -- Xylon, an FPGA-oriented design house, today announced the full availability of the new generation of the company's logiTAP platform for embedded GUI system developments. The new logiTAP kit is based on the low-cost fa ... read more |
| Sigma Designs Takes New License for Broad Range of MIPS32 Cores |
December 27, 2010 -- MIPS Technologies, Inc. have announced that Sigma Designs, Inc. reaffirmed its commitment to the MIPS architecture with a new license agreement. The agreement encompasses a broad spectrum of MIPS32 cores, inclu ... read more |
| Arteris FlexNoC Network-on-Chip (NOC) Interconnect IP Selected By Nethra Imaging for Advanced Imaging SOCs |
December 21, 2010 -- Arteris SA today announced that Nethra Imaging, Inc. has selected its FlexNoC network-on-chip interconnect fabric product and memory scheduler for use in Nethra Imaging's low power, real-time image processing p ... read more |
| Siemens Expands Its Mentor Graphics Design Environment with Expedition Enterprise and HyperLynx Signal-Integrity/ Power-Integrity Solutions |
December 21, 2010 -- Mentor Graphics Corp. today announced that Siemens Building Technologies Division, Switzerland, has successfully benchmarked the Mentor Graphics Expedition Enterprise printed circuit board (PCB) design flow and has sm ... read more |
| Cinemo Joins ARM Connected Community |
December 21, 2010 -- Cinemo, a developer of performance enhanced embedded multimedia technologies for in-vehicle infotainment, consumer electronics, and industrial embedded computing, have today announced that the company has joined the ARMread more |
| Vivante Multicore GPU IP Solutions Reach Over 1GHz In Silicon Product Implementations |
December 20, 2010 -- Vivante Corp. has announced an important milestone for its Scalarmorphic architecture with Vivante licensees' multicore silicon implementations reaching over 1GHz in silicon. Vivante has been licensing multicore versi ... read more |
| Cypress Completes High-Density QDRII+ SRAM Portfolio With New 65-nm 36-Mbit and 18-Mbit Devices |
December 20, 2010 -- Cypress Semiconductor Corp. today announced new Quad Data Rate (QDR) and Double Data Rate (DDR) SRAMs at 36-Mbit and 18-Mbit densities, the latest members of its 65-nm SRAM family. The new memories complete the indust ... read more |
| Bosch Selects FDC Solution rrom PDF Solutions |
December 20, 2010 -- PDF Solutions, Inc. today announced that Robert Bosch GmbH has selected its maestria Fault Detection and Classification (FDC) as FDC solution for its new 8-inch semiconductor facility in Reutlingen, Germany ... read more |
| MOSAID and IBM Sign Patent License Agreement, Resolve Patent Litigation Suit |
December 20, 2010 -- MOSAID Technologies, Inc. has entered into a patent license agreement with IBM Corp. of Armonk, New York. The separate settlement agreement effectively ends the pending litigation between MOSAID and IBM.
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| Pantech Selects AuthenTec's DRM Client Solution for Android |
December 20, 2010 -- AuthenTec, Inc. today announced that leading mobile device maker Pantech has chosen AuthenTec's DRM Fusion Agent to help protect high-value content on several new Android 2.2-based mobile phones.
"We ... read more |
| DS-5 Supports Boot Code, Kernel, Driver and Application Development for ARM Linux-Based Products |
December 20, 2010 -- ARM announced today the release of the ARM Development Studio 5 (DS-5) v5.3, and the commercial availability of the DS-5 Linux Edition. DS-5 accelerates Linux and Android native code development by providing a powerfu ... read more |
| Industry Aligns Behind JEDEC Universal Flash Storage Standard |
December 20, 2010 -- The JEDEC Solid State Technology Association has announced that it is moving towards publication of the next-generation Flash memory standard, Universal Flash Storage (UFS). Major progress achieved at recent JEDEC co ... read more |
| VarioTAP In-System Emulation Technology Meets Analog Devices' TigerSHARC DSP |
December 20, 2010 -- GOEPEL electronic GmbH has developed a dedicated model library for the TigerSHARC series of digital signal processors (DSP) from Analog Devices to support the VarioTAP emulation technology. VarioTAP's functional range ... read more |
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