| Samsung Adopts Mali Graphics Processor Architecture for Next-Generation Consumer Product SOCs |
February 15, 2010 -- Samsung Electronics and ARM, announced today that Samsung has adopted the ARM Mali graphics processor architecture for its future graphics-enabled SOCs (system-on-chip) as well as for its ASIC and foundry business, i ... read more |
| New TI Multicore SOC Architecture to Deliver 5X Performance and Simplified Design for Communications Infrastructure Equipment |
February 15, 2010 -- Texas Instruments, Inc. (TI) today unveiled a new system-on-chip (SOC) architecture based on its multicore digital signal processors (DSPs) that integrates fixed and floating point capabilities in the industry's highe ... read more |
| MIPS Technologies Partners with Intrinsyc Software to Bring 3.5G Telephony to the MIPS Architecture |
February 15, 2010 -- MIPS Technologies, Inc. and Intrinsyc Software International, Inc. are working together to bring 3.5G functionality to the MIPS architecture. The companies are porting Intrinsyc's RapidRIL software to the MIPS ... read more |
| MIPS Technologies and Mavrix Technology Collaborate on Mobile SOC Development |
February 15, 2010 -- MIPS Technologies, Inc. and Mavrix Technology, Inc., a fabless company developing SOC solutions for the emerging Mobile Digital TV (MDTV) and portable multimedia market, announced they are working together to d ... read more |
| Athena Group Delivers Powerful 3GPP LTE Multi Radix FFT Processor Core |
February 15, 2010 -- The Athena Group, Inc. has announced the general availability of its multi-radix FFT core for LTE and other OFDM-based wireless communications. The PFFT-M for LTE delivers the throughput needed for basestation LTE dow ... read more |
| MIPS Technologies and SySDSoft Partner to Enable LTE on MIPS Architecture |
February 15, 2010 -- MIPS Technologies, Inc. and SySDSoft, a supplier of Mobile WiMAX and LTE embedded software solutions for 4G, are teaming to enable LTE on the MIPS architecture. As a new member of the MIPS Alliance Program, SyS ... read more |
| Micron to Acquire Numonyx |
February 15, 2010 -- Micron Technology, Inc. and Numonyx B.V. have signed a definitive agreement under which Micron has agreed to acquire privately held Numonyx in an all-stock transaction valuing Numonyx at approximately $1.27 bil ... read more |
| Avnet Virtex-6 FPGA DSP Development Kit Jump Starts DSP Designs |
February 10, 2010 -- Avnet Electronics Marketing has announced the availability of the Xilinx Virtex-6 FPGA DSP Development Kit as part of the Xilinx Targeted Design Platform for DSP design. Avnet has worked with Xilinx to develop and rel ... read more |
| EMA Design Automation Expands OrCAD Product Family |
February 9, 2010 -- EMA Design Automation, Inc. today announced some changes to the part number schema with the new Cadence Design Systems Allegro and OrCAD 16.3 release. These changes enhance the breadth of technology available in the Or ... read more |
| HiSilicon Licenses Tensilica's Xtensa Dataplane Processor and ConnX DSP IP Cores |
February 9, 2010 -- Tensilica, Inc. announced today that HiSilicon Technologies Co., Ltd. has licensed Tensilica's (DPUs) and ConnX DSP (digital signal processing) semiconductor IP cores. HiSilicon will use Tensilica's DPUs and DS ... read more |
| Septentrio Satellite Navigation Taps DDC-I's Safety-Critical Deos Real-Time Operating System |
February 9, 2010 -- Septentrio Satellite Navigation, a manufacturer of professional GNSS receivers, and DDC-I, Inc. announced today that Septentrio has selected DDC-I’s safety-critical Deos real-time operating system software for use in n ... read more |
| Bluespec Delivers Plug-and-Play Library for Algorithm and Datapath Design |
February 9, 2010 -- Bluespec, Inc. today announced its Pipelined Architecture Composers library (PAClib), the industry's first parameterized, plug-and-play building block library for specifying, modeling and synthesizing algorithm and dat ... read more |
| Atmel Targets Portable Devices with Low-Power, Single-Key Capacitive Touch Controllers |
February 9, 2010 -- Atmel Corp. today announced a new family of single-key touch controllers for the portable device market. This new family offers designers power consumption below 17µA for next-generation portable touch devices, i ... read more |
| CoWare Teams with Xilinx to Accelerate LTE Basestation Design |
February 9, 2010 -- CoWare, Inc. has signed a distribution agreement with Xilinx, Inc. under which CoWare has integrated and is distributing models of Xilinx’s LTE Baseband IP portfolio with its SPW LTE solution. By combining the S ... read more |
| PLX Technology Adopts Apache Design's Power-Analysis and Optimization Solutions |
February 9, 2010 -- Apache Design Solutions, Inc. today announced that PLX Technology, Inc. has adopted Apache’s solutions to improve its power grid design. PLX chose RedHawk-NX and PakSi-E for their ability to provide accurate an ... read more |
| Yamaha Tapes Out Graphics Chip with Synopsys Design Compiler Graphical |
February 9, 2010 -- Synopsys, Inc. today announced that Yamaha achieved its aggressive performance targets ahead of schedule with Design Compiler Graphical and successfully taped out its latest Graphics LSI chip.
Traditionally, tim ... read more |
| Wind River Extends Virtualization Support with New Release of Wind River Hypervisor |
February 9, 2010 -- Wind River today released an updated version of Wind River Hypervisor, its embedded virtualization solution for single and multicore processors. The new Wind River Hypervisor 1.1 release supports the latest Intel proce ... read more |
| ChipWrights Adds OpenEmbedded Support to Its Software Development Kit |
February 9, 2010 -- ChipWrights, Inc.'s New Linux Software Development Kit provides OpenEmbedded support for developers who are designing multimedia applications based on the CW5631 system-on-chip (SOC). Designers can now access thousands ... read more |
| Lauterbach TRACE32 Power Tools Now Support Cortus APS3 CPUs |
February, 9 2010 -- Lauterbach's TRACE32 Power Tool is now available for the Cortus SA APS3 family of low-power embedded CPUs. Non-intrusive debugging over JTAG is supported giving engineers full visibility of program execution and ... read more |
| Rambus Unveils Mobile XDR Memory for Next-Generation Mobile Products |
February 8, 2010 -- Rambus, Inc. today unveiled its for next-generation mobile products. Based on innovations from Rambus’ Mobile Memory Initiative introduced last year, Mobile XDR memory offers a high-bandwidth, low-power memory architec ... read more |
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